The Cougar Diaries of Liv and Zea

The film toggles between the year 2024 an 2054 in Cape Town South Africa. We are presented with two old ladies "Liv and Zea" In their younger years, whilst desperate for money to fund shopping sprees and a lifestyle they could not afford, they were recruited by an international spy organization to carry out "hits" on people who were deemed to be undesirable by the agency. These adventures take them to some exotic locations. Liv is a stereotypical dizzy blonde who is always getting herself in to trouble. Zea is a Russian immigrant with an unusual understanding of the English language who fled her native country to escape a war.

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Benji the Hunted

Benji has become stranded on a remote island after a boating accident. He finds himself struggling to survive in the wilderness, avoiding close encounters with a wolf, a bear, and a territorial female cougar with her cub.

The Cat That Changed America

P22 is the most famous cat in America, a mountain lion who lives in Griffith Park in the middle of LA. This is his amazing story.

Cougar: On the Trail of the Ghost Cat

In the heart of southern France there is a fog-prone area where, according to legend, a bloodthirsty creature wreaked havoc 250 years ago. A rumor is spreading again in this legendary place, as eyewitnesses report an animal with large paws and a long tail that crosses roads in a single leap - powerful enough to tear down a horse and leave it mutilated in the pasture. Is the Beast of Gévaudan back? The animal photographer Bruno Loisel has a supposedly more rational explanation. The animal that fits the descriptions could be a cougar, but this species of big cat is only native to America. In order to learn the proper techniques for tracking down the puma, he travels to Canada, where he accompanies a team of researchers dedicated to studying the shy, almost invisible predator. Will Bruno be able to use his findings to solve the mystery of the new beast of Gévaudan?

Hoffmann's Eyes

A retelling of E.T.A Hoffmann's gothic story "The Sandman" and the opera "Tales of Hoffmann", ever since childhood, Hoffmann has been haunted by The Sandman and believed that a visitor to his father was really The Sandman, while traveling to Veneice he encounters a strange glass vendor who reappears through out his life. This film was never completed.

Demons

Possibly the first and only film to look at paedophilia in this light, Demons is an award-winning short fictional drama that challenges the audience to question everything that they think they know about society's representation of people.

Floor X

An accidental meeting in an elevator at a department store leads two older women to their limits and forces them to improvise by the time the elevator gets stuck.

Role Play 2: Dongchim

Playwright Soo-yeon writes in a quiet villa. Soo-yeon lives isolated from the outside because of her father's pathological obsession. The father interferes excessively under the pretext of protecting his daughter Su-yeon from being stained by the corrupt world. Then one day, Hyun-woo, an aspiring actor, moves in between Su-yeon and her father. “I wonder how my dad will react if another man gets in between him and me.” Hyun-woo is the actor Soo-yeon hired to escape her father's obsession. That's how dangerous cohabitation begins.

Untold Scandal

In late 1700s Korea, Lady Cho challenges the playboy Lord Jo-won into seducing and sleeping with her husband's coming young, virgin concubine. Lady Cho agrees to sleep with him if he succeeds.

Albino

Yashima is a woman who works as a plumber. She is also uncomfortable with her own sexuality. One day she visits a home for a job and meets Kyu. Yashima senses Kyu's eyes watching her. They become intimate, but a dark secret is soon revealed.

The Scarlet Letter

A cop's desire for love gets in the way of his job and his professional life. Secret love affairs begin to dangerously collide as he gets assigned to a new homicide case.

Rebels of the Neon God

Defying his parents, disaffected youth Hsiao Kang drops out of the local cram school to head for the bright lights of downtown Taipei. He falls in wit Ah Tze, a young hoodlum, and their relationship is a confused mixture of hero-worship and rivalry that soon leads to trouble.

Usotsuki Paradox

Shunsuke has fallen for his colleague Hinako, but she is engaged albeit in a long-distance relationship. She and her boyfriend meet on the odd weekends. She feels lonely at times. When one evening they are both working late and still in the office Shunsuke throws caution to the win, reveals his feelings, makes a pass and plants a kiss on Hinako. Things should make their natural progression from there if nature takes its course, but then again they chart a different course.

Pumas in Patagonia

A story told with no words but with the power of sound and visuals of unspoiled Patagonia.

All Star

13 short films and videos by internationally acclaimed underground filmmaker Todd Verow spanning the years 1989-2005.