Jameson Kowalczyk

Smiley Face is director Gregg Araki’s follow up to his critically acclaimed Mysterious Skin, a stoner-comedy starring Anna Faris (Waiting, Lost in Translation, My Super Ex-Girlfriend) as Jane, whose day turns into a series of misadventures when she unwittingly devours a batch of marijuana cupcakes.

Screened at Sundance as part of the Park City at Midnight program, director Andrew Currie’s Fido is set in the idyllic suburban town of Willard, frozen in the style and sensibilities of 1950’s America, and overrun with zombies – but relax, the walking dead have been domesticated thanks to a nifty zombie-control collar manufactured by the good people at ZomCom!

A former film critic, Rod Lurie garnered Golden-Globe and Academy Award nominations for his 2000 film The Contender. His latest project, Resurrecting the Champ premiering at Sundace, is from a screenplay based on an LA Times article about a former boxing champion now homeless and living on the streets, and stars Josh Hartnett and Samuel L. Jackson.

Padre Nuestro is the feature film debut from writer/director Christopher Galla, the story of two young boys, Pedro and Juan, who flee Mexico illegally with the help of corrupt border patrol officials. Pedro carries with him a letter from his mother and a locket containing photos of his mother and father, the latter of which fled Mexico for New York City 22 years before. Pedro has come to New York to find him. Juan also carries two mementos from his father – a switchblade and the scar on his chest where his father stuck the blade.

The effort of three Atlanta-based directors David Bruckner, Jacob Gentry, and Dan Bush, The Signal follows a small group of characters struggling to survive the anarchy that follows a bizarre, mind-altering broadcast (called a ‘terminus’) that turns anyone exposed to it into a homicidal maniac.