Andrew Gurland

New York City filmmaker Andrew Gurland set out to make a documentary chronicling the marriage between a doorman from Queens and his mail order bride, only to find himself increasingly emotionally intertwined in his subjects\' lives. The film was Produced by the director of Swingers and The Bourne Identity, Doug Liman.

This hilarious short film is a marvel of precision-timed chutzpah. Writer Andrew Gurland stars as a white dude with an Afro - "a people person," he cheerfully says whose glasses initiate a series of racially charged encounters. Blending Woody Allen-ish New York humor with conceptualist flair, Levin and Gurland create huge laughs through a skillfully edited multilayered narrative.

When he arrives on the rural Louisiana farm of Louis Sweetzer, the Reverend Cotton Marcus expects to perform just another routine "exorcism" on a disturbed religious fanatic. An earnest fundamentalist, Sweetzer has contacted the charismatic preacher as a last resort, certain his teenage daughter Nell is possessed by a demon who must be exorcized before their terrifying ordeal ends in unimaginable tragedy. Buckling under the weight of his conscience after years of parting desperate believers with their money, Cotton and his crew plan to film a confessionary documentary of this, his last exorcism. But upon arriving at the already blood drenched family farm, it is soon clear that nothing could have prepared him for the true evil he encounters there. Now, too late to turn back, Reverend Marcus' own beliefs are shaken to the core when he and his crew must find a way to save Nell, and themselves, before it is too late.