Adapted from the play written by Austinite vodka maker Tito Beveridge, from Tito’s Vodka, ‘This Side of the Dirt’ is a Texas family drama steeped in satire and humor.
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The lives of three people intersect on a late bus ride that’s hijacked by a suicidal political flunky. Shingo is a miserable young desk cop bucking for homicide division. Tetsu is a restroom cleaning attendant who has a mentally ill father and a penchant for mischief. And Saki is a petulant druggist/chemist who was born without an eye and keeps her disfigurement hidden behind shades. Months after the hijacking, the trio lives re-intertwine as they playfully seek revenge for their unhappy lives, until the games become deadly serious.
November 1963, London. An East End slum landlord with a reputation for protecting the morally abhorrent is assigned the unenviable task of chaperoning a vision-plagued Catholic Nun to her mission in Paris.
China in the 1920s. After her father’s death, 19 year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family. With three wives already, each living in a separate house within the great castle, there is fierce competition for his attention and the privileges that are gained. This competition gets out of hand…
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A man just released from a mental institution gets involved in a gold mine scheme while trying to avoid the cops, a wrathful drug dealer, and a sultry femme fatale.
Pulling his girlfriend Allison (Jennifer Seward) into the whirlwind of his ambitions, Trent (Kyle Dyck) is desperately on the run from contracted hitmen Henry (Brian Paulette) and Tim (Davis DeRock) as he slips into the deep, desolate backroads that criss-cross the empty rolling plains. Along the way Trent stumbles upon Ben (Jeffrey Staab), a nomadic drifter who now calls these roads “home,” along-side his wife Michelle (Christie Courville) as they wander in the vast openness that is the Flint Hills.
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