Damian Young

Edge of Darkness -- When a police detective's daughter is murdered on his front steps, his solitary search to find her killer takes him to a dangerous, looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups.

Kill the Poor -- A young man in 80s NYC moves into a squatter tenement to make a life for his wife and child, but the problems of the building threaten to overtake his new life.

When a police detective's daughter is murdered on his front steps, his solitary search to find her killer takes him to a dangerous, looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups.

When a police detective's daughter is murdered on his front steps, his solitary search to find her killer takes him to a dangerous, looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups.

"Edge of Darkness" is an emotionally charged thriller set at the intersection of politics and big business. Thomas Craven (Mel Gibson) is a veteran homicide detective for the Boston Police Department and a single father. When his only child, 24-year-old Emma (Bojana Novakovic), is murdered on the steps of his home, everyone assumes that he was the target. But he soon suspects otherwise, and embarks on a mission to find out about his daughter's secret life and her killing. His investigation leads him into a dangerous, looking-glass world of corporate cover-ups, government collusion and murder-and to shadowy government operative Darius Jedburgh (Ray Winstone), who has been sent in to clean up the evidence. Craven's solitary search for answers about his daughter's death transforms into an odyssey of emotional discovery and redemption.

Robert DeNiro leads an acclaimed allstar cast Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell in the heartwarming film that will move you to laughter and tears. When Frank Goode's (DeNiro) grown children cancel a family reunion, the recent widower sets off on a crosscountry journey to reconnect with each of them. Expecting to share in the joys of their happy, successful lives, his surprise visits reveal a picture that's far from perfect. A family separated by physical and emotional distance finds a way to come together in a story that will touch your heart.

Robert De Niro leads an acclaimed all-star cast - Drew Barrymore, Kate Beckinsale and Sam Rockwell - in Everybody's Fine, the heartwarming film that will move you to laughter and tears. When Frank Goode's (De Niro) grown children cancel a family reunion, the recent widower sets off on a cross-country journey to reconnect with each of them. Expecting to share in the joys of their happy, successful lives, his surprise visits reveal a picture that's far from perfect. A family separated by physical and emotional distance finds a way to come together in a story that will touch your heart.

El Cid Rivera (Damian Young) is 33 and has never left Manhattan Island; neither have his childhood friends, whom he meets every day at the same bar around the same table. He's tired of his humdrum life and a going-nowhere career. And he's been saddled with the name of an epic hero played on-screen by Charlton Heston (his mother's favorite). Bouncing between dead-end jobs, El Cid struggles to find his calling, yet fears he'll never succeed on the epic scale his mother expects. To find escape, El Cid takes to the empty streets of New York at night -- as part of a group who call themselves Asphalt Nomads. He and his fellow travelers cruise Manhattan's 900 miles of open blacktop after midnight in boat-like '70s Buicks and Lincolns to find a sense of control, serenity and briefly, freedom. Art Jones skillfully shapes his hero's transforming experiences into an inspiring tale of self-discovery. Going Nomad is ultimately an intelligent, highly original and hilarious look at the search for purpose in their lives.

"Kill the Poor" is the story of Joe Peltz (David Krumholtz), a young man in 1980s New York, who buys into a squatter tenement in the Lower East Side neighborhood where his immigrant grandparents first settled, hoping to make a life for his new wife Annabelle (Clara Bellar) and the baby they have on the way. From the start, the former tenants of the apartment, and heads of "the corporation" that run the co-op, warn Joe and Annabelle that living in the building will be more than they bargained for, and that their relationship may not survive. Joe's Uncle Yakov (Cliff Gorman) is constantly reminding him that this "war zone" is not his grandmother's neighborhood anymore - there are junkies sleeping in his grandfather's old tailor shop, the building where his mother was born is now a vacant lot, you can't even find the synagogue, and the corner bodega has been shut down for selling human meat. But this apartment is all they can afford, and Joe is determined to make it work. As Joe struggles to keep himself and his marriage together, the building's problems begin to take over his life: the never-ending "board meetings" about whose responsibility it is to sleep in the doorway to keep the junkies out; the constant debate about how to get rid of Carlos (Paul Calderon), a bully who refuses to pay rent because he lived in the building before everyone else; the hoodlum antics of Carlos' teenage son Segundo (John Budinoff); grungy goddess Scarlet (Heather Burns) bed hopping her way through all of the male tenants, from underground artist Spike (Larry Gilliard Jr.), to home boy Negrito (Otto Sanchez), to part-time grad student/political activist Butch (Zak Orth); and drag queen Delilah (Damien Young) keeping everyone abreast of the latest gossip. All of the simmering tensions in the building come to a boil when a mysterious fire erupts in Carlos' apartment, and Joe, now President of "the corporation," is assigned the task of dealing with it. "Kill the Poor" is a rueful and darkly comic tale about the quest to achieve the American Dream, on the Urban frontier.

Richard T. Jones (Guess Who, TV's "The Wire"), Blair Underwood (Madea's Family Reunion, TV's "Fatherhood"), Chenoa Maxwell (Doing Hard Time, Hav Plenty), Andre Royo (Shaft, TV's "The Wire"), Andrew Lauren (Conspiracy Theory), Laz Alonzo (Jarhead, The Tenants) star in G, a tragedy-filled story of a young Great Gatsby-ish Hip-Hopper named Summer G who falls for a middle- to upper-class sistah while in college. After she rejects him for a fellow social climber, Summer G spends ten years building a Hip-Hop empire, and then moves to the Hamptons where he finds the object of his affections. Cinematic urban tastemaker movie which highlights an African-American aristocratic lifestyle.

Forced by fiscal circumstance to move to New York City's Lower East Side, Joe Peltz and his green-card bride find their new neighborhood a perilous crime zone, where tensions simmering on the back burner of this urban frontier threaten to boil over.

A young man in 80s NYC moves into a squatter tenement to make a life for his wife and child, but the problems of the building threaten to overtake his new life.