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The Players

Year: 2022

Length: 36 minutes

Format: Color HD (4K)

Style: Narrative Short

Budget: $5000 (In-Kind), $0 (Cash)

Made as a cooperative film, this is the story of a man taken with an aspiring actress trying to lure her into an intimate relationship by producing his own film.

Premiered at the Lost River Film Festival.

Count the Ways

Year: 2021

Length: 5 minutes

Format: B&W HD (4K)

Style: Experimental Short

Budget: $500 (In-Kind), $100 (Cash)

Based on the classic poem, this modern, experimental take utilizes a black-and-white theatre aesthetic to explore the many shades of love, ranging from pure white to pitch black.

"I enjoyed and admired [the] filmmaker abilities...[also,] quite a performer."

- Richard Herskowitz

Artistic Director, Ashland Independent Film Festival, 2020

Abortifacient

*Original Release: 2020

Length: 5 minutes

Format: Color HD (4K)

Style: Experimental Narrative Feature

Budget: $15,000

A genre-bending psychological art horror "operatic cinema" in which a couple argues over an unplanned pregnancy, set to 18 classical music songs, and exploring the concepts of romance, love, family, gender, and control.

"Bold and unique."

- Austin Film Society Panelist, 2017

"The music is great...An increasingly intense series of visual, dramatic, and auditory clues,...full of semi-magical objects,...with a shocking denouement."

- Laurence Unger, Executive Director, Houston Cinema Arts Society, 2020

*International Re-release: 2023 (as Coming to Term)

Animalium

Year: 2017

Length: 48:36

Format: Color HD

Style: Narrative Featurette

Budget: $3000

Synopsis: Two brothers are on a road trip through Texas when one confesses a dark secret. A meditation on life, death, and the nature of morality.

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Filmmaker Reviews:

"Animalium is a claustrophobic mesmerizing meditation on morality & violence. I haven't seen anything quite like it. A truly unique American Road Movie worth watching."

- C.M. Talkington, Writer/Director, “Love and a .45”

"A character study on multiple planes. You want to know what's going on in this person's head and how did they get to this point in their life? It's an intriguing story, like a novella of film. Takes its time and lets itself breathe."

- James Fite, Writer/Director, “Carnage Radio”

"An ambitious conversation between two brothers about morality, natural order and free will unfolds on a camping trip through Texas.

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Nietzsche’s Genealogy of Morality wrapped in a genre film with an air of Linklater’s, Waking Life shot against the beauty of the Texas landscape and wrapped in the sounds of nature. A deep dive into filmmaking and philosophy.

Fatima Hye has proven she is a Texas voice to pay attention to. Her ability to command even performances is worth punctuating. Her use of long, lingering shots of beautiful Texas scenery lent itself well to creating an isolated world for these characters to traverse."

- Anthony Pedone, Writer/Director, “An American in Texas”

Premier and Festival Viewers:

"It disturbed me...still does!"

"Like a Terence Malick film, but with violence."

"A Jim Jarmusch moment."

"References so many philosophers...Plato, Nietzsche, etc."

"It's like everyday horror."

"Symbols like Cain and Abel, etc."

"Gorgeous cinematography!"

Surveillance Girl

Year: 2016

Length: 18:51

Format: Mixed HD

Style: Narrative Short

Budget: $600

Synopsis: In a near dystopian future, a surveillance worker becomes obsessed with a girl he is watching.

“Invite[s] us to become both victim and voyeur. It's an uncomfortable tension that builds over the course of the film…interesting and conceptualized with intention.“

- Jenny Waldo, Director, Acid Test