Manhattan Film Festival

Nikki and Jason are young and attractive. They met in rehab. She's a heroin addict. He's only dabbled in cocaine. Until Christmas Eve. Jason decides to experience smoking heroin to 'see why it's more important to Nikki than their relationship.' They are also dependent upon financial support from her wealthy parents, and must attend the parents’ Holiday party, even though they're still high. ...

The concept of the ambulance is as old as the stone age and it was indeed at this level that New York City's Emergency Medical Service operated at in the 1970s. This is the TRUE story never before told from a first person perspective with the only film footage in existence of that time. It is a no holds barred tale of enablers of death, with the hope that these ancient 911 protocols, still in effe...

A tempestuous romantic drama in seven vignettes that chronicles an interracial marriage, telling a story of turmoil and tenderness as two people try to make their relationship last.

Jim is an aspiring actor who has moved from Atlanta to New York City in pursuit of his dreams. But naive actors like him are a dime a dozen in New York City and the doors to the brutal, cutthroat, New York acting world keep slamming shut in his face. None of what worked for him down south seems to work for him in the big city. On the gritty streets of New York, Jim learns a valuable lesson about w...

The money earned by 11-year-olds Sonam and Tashi for doing prayers is only enough to share one small Coke. Sonam is lucky to even get a sip before Tashi, the monastery bully, drinks the entire bottle. Yarne is an annual six-week period when Buddhist monks remain within the monastery grounds for focused study and practice, yet for child monks, it’s more like house arrest. Tired of wasting his mon...