Bill Brochtrup

Duck -- Arthur is a retired history professor who has outlived his time and place, friends and family, resources and reasons to live.

Ravenous -- Captain John Boyd's promotion stations him at a fort where a rescued man tells a disturbing tale of cannibalism.

A man and a duck search for the means to live, and some meaning in life, in Los Angeles 2009. Written and directed by Nic Bettauer, "Duck" stars Philip Baker Hall as a retired widower in a dystopian Los Angeles where social services have gone the way of social graces. Forced from his home with only a duck named Joe to accompany him, Hall's character Arthur embarks on a quest for purpose and community across the urban desert of Los Angeles. Interacting with a host of strangers – some helpful, some harmful, some heroic – Arthur learns that saving the life of this duck may have led to the salvation of his own. In a duck who believes him to be its mother, an old man discovers dignity and the will to live on...

Arthur is a retired history professor who has outlived his time and place, friends and family, resources and reasons to live.

Arthur is a retired history professor who has outlived his time and place, friends and family, resources and reasons to live.

Capt. John Boyd (Guy Pearce) begins a journey to hell when he and a small, motley group of soldiers, banished to a desolate military outpost in California’s barren and icy Sierra Nevada Mountains, face off against a marauding band of cannibals in a deadly struggle for survival.

Captain John Boyd's promotion stations him at a fort where a rescued man tells a disturbing tale of cannibalism.

Captain John Boyd's promotion stations him at a fort where a rescued man tells a disturbing tale of cannibalism.

A soldier is revoked a promotion when it's uncovered that the manner in which he earned it was an act of cowardice. He is sent to Fort Spencer where he finds himself snowbound and isolated with 8 others, fighting the cannibalistic hunger raging within.