Barbara Rhoades

Don't Just Stand There -- Award winning (Best Editing) entry at 48-hour Film Festival, New Hampshire USA. Shot in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Kinn, Norway. Film completed from start to finish in 48 hours. We pulled the genre, drama, quite literally out of a hat along with a single line of dialogue, 'Don't Just Stand There, Move It..' that we were required to include in the film. We decided, in the midst of shooting, that we would change course and that the central idea of the film would be anchored to that same line of dialogue. 6gb of raw video was shot in Norway and uploaded to a server in Portsmouth, where it was edited and incorporated in to the American footage. The film was intended to make the audience think about a situation, one that could have happened to them. Somewhere far away there has been a death of a child and a man on the other side of the Atlantic is haunted by these thoughts, sounds and images. He wanders alone, confused, going deeper and deeper into his troubling thoughts wandering around lost. One can hear children's music, and we see a woman chasing after her child . We tried to evoke happiness, sadness and confusion and the wonder of it all.

In this dark comedy, opportunistic Sunny Cannald (Teri Garr) is fed up with being married to bombastic butcher Ernie (Bruce McGill). So, when he ends up accidentally freezing to death in his shop's cold room following a fight with his business partner, Dave (John Lithgow), Sunny smells a way out. After Dave discovers the body, he's convinced that he's to blame and turns to Sunny for help -- but it'll be a frosty day in hell before that happens.

Sunny is married to the butcher Ernie; their marriage is about to end as both of them have affairs. Thus Sunny hires Lester Atlas as private investigator in order to collect proofs for the divorce. One evening drunken Ernie and his partner Dave have a fight in the butchery with the result of Ernie getting knocked out in the fridge where he dies during the night. But it was not Dave's fault but intentional murder by Sunny. Only Lester has proofs so Sunny kills him, too. Thus she only has to kill Dave to get rid of all witnesses, but he can free himself out of the fridge and wants to take revenge...

The "me" generation is hilariously heralded in Cyra McFadden's satiric novel that playfully jabbed the residents of California's Marin County and their whirlwind search for the ultimate lifestyle. Set just across the bay from San Francisco, "Serial" depicts a year in the life of an affluent suburb where each new trend is eagerly consumed, from organic foods and EST to group jacuzzis. Harvey Holroyd (Martin Mull) gamely suffers through the insanity in an effort to please his wife Kate (Tuesday Weld) and their pouty teenage daughter (Jennifer McAllister). An all-star comedy cast including Sally Kellerman, Tom Smothers, Bill Macy, Peter Bonerz, and screen villain Christopher Lee brings "Serial" to life in a frank, funny parody of present-day-America.

A new detective in town is welcomed by the news of local cheerleader being slaughtered while walking home. With the help of a local reporter decides to find out what exactly is happening in the town.

A new detective in town is welcomed by the news of local cheerleader being slaughtered while walking home. With the help of a local reporter decides to find out what exactly is happening in the town.

It's the end of the 70s. Hippies are assimilating, women are raising their consciousness, and men are becoming confused and ineffectual. Don't expect to be able to keep track of all the names or who's sleeping with who; the picture very skillfully conveys the hopeless muddle through which the many characters move as they try to Find Themselves.

Richard Dreyfuss as a struggling actor and Marsha Mason as an even more struggling actress/dancer/mother deliver comedy repartee and bitter-to- best romance in Neil Simon's lustrous charmer featuring Dreyfuss' Academy Award-winning Best Actor performance.

Rowdy L.A. police officers cause as much havoc on their beats as they try to prevent. Based on Joseph Wambaugh's novel.

Burned-out from the crushing stress of patrolling the rough streets of Los Angeles, a group of LAPD cops blows off steam at nightly "choir practices" -- parties fueled by practical jokes, booze and debauchery. But when a joke goes too far and an innocent man gets caught in the crossfire, the cops close ranks and try to cover up the incident. Charles Durning, James Woods, Randy Quaid and Louis Gossett Jr. star in this dark comedy.

Rowdy L.A. police officers cause as much havoc on their beats as they try to prevent. Based on Joseph Wambaugh's novel.

Rowdy L.A. police officers cause as much havoc on their beats as they try to prevent. Based on Joseph Wambaugh's novel.