Eugene Byrd

Julia -- Seeing a financial opportunity after encountering a woman estranged from her son, alcoholic Julia throws herself into a criminal plot that escalates beyond anything she ever imagined.

Rails & Ties -- When a suicidal mother is killed by parking her car in front of a train, the train's engineer and his wife form an unlikely but much-needed bond with the mother's young son.

Julia is an alcoholic. Between shots of vodka and one-night stands, she gets by on nickel-and-dime jobs. Increasingly lonely, her alcohol-induced confusion daily reinforces her sense that life has dealt her a losing hand. Seeing a financial opportunity after encountering a woman estranged from her son, Julia throws herself into a criminal plot that escalates beyond anything she ever imagined.

The beautiful star of Emmanuelle tries to lose her virginity while vacationing in Switzerland.

The beautiful star of Emmanuelle tries to lose her virginity while vacationing in Switzerland.

When a suicidal mother is killed by parking her car in front of a train, the train's engineer and his wife form an unlikely but much-needed bond with the mother's young son.

At an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, Julia Harris (Tilda Swinton) agrees to help her friend Elena (Kate del Castillo) kidnap her son (Aidan Gould) from his industrialist grandfather. But when Julia takes the scheme into her own hands, she quickly descends into a dangerous world of Mexican con men. This Cassavetes-inspired drama from acclaimed French director Erick Zonca screened at the Sundance and Berlin film festivals.

Julia, 40, is an alcoholic. She is a manipulative, unreliable, compulsive liar, all strung out beneath her still flamboyant exterior. Between shots of vodka and one-night stands, Julia gets by on nickel-and-dime jobs. Increasingly lonely, the only consideration she receives comes from her friend Mitch, who tries to help her. But she shrugs him off, as her alcohol-induced confusion daily reinforces her sense that life has dealt her a losing hand and that she is not to blame for the mess she has made of it. Glimpsing imminent perdition, and after a chance encounter with Elena, a Mexican woman, Julia convinces herself - as much in panic and despair as for financial gain - to commit a violent act. As the story unfolds, Julia's journey becomes a headlong flight on a collision course, but somehow she makes the choice of life over death.

When a suicidal mother is killed by parking her car in front of a train, the train's engineer and his wife form an unlikely but much-needed bond with the mother's young son.

When a suicidal mother is killed by parking her car in front of a train, the train's engineer and his wife form an unlikely but much-needed bond with the mother's young son.

When a suicidal mother is killed by parking her car in front of a train, the train's engineer and his wife form an unlikely but much-needed bond with the mother's young son.

Danny Hoch is the irrepressible Flip, the hip-hop poet of his own white boy crew. The son of a working class Iowa family, Flip just wants "to keep it real." In his mind that means moving into the Chicago ghetto to live and write million-dollar rap hits like his heroes. Flip and his friends; Trevor (Mark Webber), James (Dash Mihok) and college-bound girlfriend Sara (Piper Perabo), drink forty-ouncers, smoke Philly blunts, cruise around in James' truck and aspire to be gangsta rappers. Then they meet Khalid (Eugene Byrd), an upper-class black kid recently transplanted from Chicago. When Flip gets him out of a run-in with the law, Khalid owes him. He agrees to take Flip and the gang to Chicago, where Flip's fantasy gangster world meets reality in a way he never imagined. Featuring special appearances by Fat Joe, Dead Prez, Mic Geronimo, Slick Rick, Doug E. Fresh, and Snoop Dog.