Michael Farmer

Trailer for Decision. A family in despair rediscovers its faith in this uplifting drama from the producers of WWJD: What Would Jesus Do? Natalie Grant stars as Ilene, who struggles to make ends meet after the tragic death of her firefighter husband (Billy Dean). When she begins to lose control of her heartbroken teenage son Jackson (Michael Rosenbaum), she reaches out to her estranged father Wyatt (Rusty Whitener), a farmer, to take in the troubled boy. Wyatt is a good man but set in his ways, and Jackson resists Wyatt s attempts to instill in him the virtues of hard work and his Christian values. Gradually, they form a bond that will require Jackson to find an inner strength he never knew he had to avert yet another family tragedy.

Perhaps the year's most stunning international debut, Michael R. Roskam's BULLHEAD is a harrowing tale of revenge, redemption and fate. Domineering cattle farmer Jacky Vanmarsenille (Mattias Schoenaerts in a ferocious breakout performance), constantly pumped on steroids and hormones, initiates a shady deal with a notorious mafioso meat trader. When an investigating federal agent is assassinated and a woman from his traumatic past resurfaces, Jacky must confront his demons and face the far-reaching consequences of his decisions. Acclaimed at festivals worldwide including the Berlin Film Festival, AFI Fest and Fantastic Fest, the award-winning BULLHEAD is visceral thriller bursting with rage that TwitchFilm calls 'one of the most original crime films in recent memory.'

Sarah Lewis, a 26-year-old farmer's wife, awakes one morning to find that her husband has disappeared along with all the men in the valley. Assuming they have joined the Resistance, the women of this tiny community pull together, taking on the running of the farms, and wait, desperate for news. A German patrol arrives in the valley, the purpose of its mission a mystery. When a severe winter forces the two groups into co-operation, Sarah begins an acquaintance with the patrol's commanding officer, Albrecht. Cut off from the surrounding war, the lines between collaboration, duty, occupation and survival become blurred. RESISTANCE features a sensational lead performances from British rising star Andrea Riseborough (Brighton Rock, Made In Dagenham, W.E.), and Tom Wlaschia (Enemy At The Gates, Valkyrie, Brideshead Revisited), and co-stars Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon, The Damned United).

'Welcome to the Matrix of Human Ecology. Where Image is No Longer Everything. What's Beyond the Surface, the Story Underlying?' World's Easiest Catch is a philosophical comedy that traces the life cycle of the sustainably-caught rock crab of southern California from the ocean to the dinner table. WEC primarily attempts to re-connect the consumer with a final product in the grocery store by unraveling the colorful 'story behind the surface.' This connecting-the-dots adventure--from fisherman to distributor to marketman to restaurant owner to farmer's market to consumer, to even representative scientists and government officials--simultaneously ends up constructing a collective meditation of prismatic human perceptions, language systems, values, and interactions among diverse professions revolved around the 'baton-tossing' of one common resource within a common, local environment. This short introduction is a philosophical exploration within the grocery store that serves to set up the unraveling of a longer film, which is in the process of being created. WEC introduction was filmed and edited during the pioneering Blue Horizons course at UC Santa Barbara during the summer of 2007, under the advisorship of Michael Hanrahan (President of Ocean Channel) and Dr. Constance Penley.