Brooks Almy

The Life -- Local filmmaker Ian Cooper (winner of multiple prestigious awards, including first prize at the Northern Minnesota Regional Film Festival and Talent Show) seeks to unveil the 'truth' about college life. With his amateur cameramen in tow, he spends a day documenting the lives of two Bemidji State University freshmen. One is an egghead, coming to BSU with the highest entrance exam scores in his class. The other is...his roommate.

The Thirteenth Floor -- A sci-fi thriller about an experiment gone awry, resulting in a murder mystery that veers between 1937 Los Angeles and the present day. An intelligent look at reality versus manipulated perception, where one is forced to question everything.

The barriers that separate fantasy from reality are shattered in this stylish, mind-jarring thriller, where two parallel worlds collide in a paroxysm of deception, madness and murder. On the thirteenth floor of a corporate tower, high-tech visionary Douglas Hall (Craig Bierko, The Long Kiss Goodnight) and his high-strung colleague, Whitney (Vincent D'Onofrio, Men In Black), have opened the door to an amazing virtual world - circa 1937 Los Angeles. But when the powerful leader of their secret project (Armin Mueller-Stahl, Shine, The X-Files) is discovered slashed to death, Hall himself becomes the prime suspect. Arriving from Paris is the beautiful and mysterious Jane Fuller (Gretchen Mol, Rounders), claiming to be the murder victim's daughter. Her instant, magnetic attraction to Hall only further blurs the lines of what is real. Is he the killer? Is the inscrutable Jane somehow connected? To find the answers, Hall must cross the boundaries into the simulated reality he has helped create - and confront the astonishing truth about his own existence.

The allure of making enough money to fund her education seduces a graduate student (Denise Richards) to sell her body under the tutelage of her neighbor (Daryl Hannah), a seasoned prostitute. Melding their story with interviews from real-life sex workers, The Life illuminates what it's like for those who enter the "world's oldest profession" -- whether they operate in the upper echelons of society or on the streets.