Benny Burt

Nocturne -- A 9 min Surrealist inspired short film focusing on insomnia and its relation to a disturbed psyche.

Long Shot -- Long Shot

LOVE ME OR LEAVE ME combines hilarious comedy, true-to-life drama and rousing song that underscore the play’s themes of responsibility and forgiveness. Cynthia Wyatt (Angela Evans) is a troubled teen who abandons her fraternal twin infants, leaving her mother (Shirley Murdock) to raise the children. Now, 20 years later, one of the twins (Elise Neal) is an attorney set to marry the man of her dreams (Christian Keyes); the other (Carl Payne) is an unemployed man-child. Both have issues. When Cynthia returns out of the blue, hoping to reclaim her place in their lives, no one is spared the soul-searching that ensues.

Alex, a self-absorbed young painter, is having a bad day. He doesn't get the art show he's been expecting, his girlfriend kicks him out, and he finds himself living in a low rent Hollywood apartment with an ironclad lease. Rejected, dejected, and surrounded by an assortment of neighbors he'd rather avoid, his downward spiraling life takes a turn when Lori, a country girl from Colorado, fresh out of the Air Force, moves in across the hall. It soon becomes apparent to Alex, though, that as convenient as it is to date someone across the hall, it's even more inconvenient to have her still living there when you try to break up.