Hamlet in Amerika is the new feature-length film project coming from filmmaker John Gross. Stay tuned for more details!

Permanent Arrangements, a ghost story, road movie, absurdist comedy and woman's drama all rolled into one, is the story of two emotionally scarred exiles who decide to get a house in the mountains to join the ski-patrol. While awaiting ski season, they become witnesses to a series of nightly disturbances. Ultimately, they reluctantly befriend a mysterious 80-something Russian neighbor who seems to know more about the hauntings than he should. A complex and ever-growing series of cosmic happenstances frames this strange concoction, coming in 2010. To star Tanna Frederick, Melissa Leo, Ellen Burstyn and Theodore Bikel.

The Seventh Day of Tishrei is a personal documentary about Jewish identity and the filmmaker's current existence as a "baal teshuva". Shooting soon!

Call Me Spoons is a dark comedy that tells the story of an actor named Jimmy "Spoons" Diner who teaches a topics in acting class on "How to Play the Tough Guy," instructing his pupils on how to play hitmen, Mafiosos, villains, et al. However, he has a rather unconventional way of having his students practice the Method. It is for this that he goes on the lam with actress girlfriend Camilla Palmer and assumes the role of a tough guy himself on a cross-country mad-dash to Missouri. To star David Proval (The Sopranos, Mean Streets, Nunzio) and Karen Black (Five Easy Pieces, Easy Rider, The Day of the Locust).

Rabbi Toucan Stanley is a short collaborative animation project inspired from a dream.

This documentary is being sponsored by DER, Documentary Educational Resource.

This documentary will follow the life of the late Bibhuti Singh Yadav, a controversial low-caste Hindi religious philosopher who climbed the ladder of academia, beginning under a tree in Tulsipur, Uttar Pradesh, India, to eventually winning prestigious national awards for his academic achievements. When Yadav won an award in India, according to custom, the Prime Minister of India (then Indira Gandhi) came to present the award to Yadav. He refused to go to the platform to receive his prize, but instead stood amongst the audience holding a black flag in public protest against Indira Gandhi's political policies. Armed guards had to "escort" him by his elbows to the stage. However, he had managed to smuggle up a rotten tomato, which he smeared all over the back of Indira Gandhi's white silk sari as he exited the stage with his prize in hand. Dr. William Allen, Yadav's final doctoral student and heir to his university office and legacy, leads the filmmakers in search of the paduka (i.e. footprint of the guru). The film, which tells the life story of a man who was resistant to having photographs or films taken of him (although such materials exist even in their limitedness), will also document a ritual called the Karaha, practiced solely by members of the Yadav family in remote rural India. In the ritual, high and low caste individuals participate in defying the laws of physics by bathing in clay cauldrons of boiling hot milk, immersing their naked limbs and torsos in the raging flames of the holy sacrificial fire. The ritual is a dramatic re-enactment of the "identity-defining moment" in the history of the Yadav family. The film will follow Dr. Allen as he journeys to further understand his predecessor, leading the documentary crew from Uttar Pradesh to Korea, to Texas and finally to Philadelphia, where Yadav met his untimely death in 1999.

To donate to this project, visit Documentary Educational Resource.