Indie Memphis 2008

An adaptation of Plato's, 'Allegory of the Cave' animated in clay.

REGIONAL PREMIERE Shot in Tupelo, CHASING THE WHITE DRAGON is a high-powered drama that portrays a group of six young crystal methamphetamine addicts in small-town America. Trapped in a torrent of violence, deceit, paranoia, and passion, each must decide whether to leap from the careening roller coaster or ride it to its nightmarish end.

After a fight with her mom, a teenage girl takes refuge with her lonely Aunt Celia, who is determined to prove how tolerant, hip, and "with it" she is to win her niece's affection.

A crash course on the intricacies of Swedish punk fashion.

As a bodyguard for a high profile politician, Ruben is reduced to a mere shadow of a man: every action in his life is regulated by a series of mundane routines, and everywhere his boss goes he must follow, watching but never speaking. Resigned to his invisibility, his life is a series of days without meaning, punctuated only by visits to a prostitute, in this compelling chronicle by first-time director Rodrigo Moreno of a man without any true identity or connection to the world in which he lives. About the Director: Rodrigo Moreno was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1972. He graduated from the directing program at the Universidad del Cine, where he has been teaching screenwriting and directing since 1996. He collaborated as writer and director with Ulises Rosell and Andrés Tambornino on the feature film Sweet Repose (2002), an offbeat comedy that won Best Film at Images du Monde Festival (Canada). He also wrote and directed Compañeros, the last segment of the episodic feature Bad Times (1998). He has previously directed several short films, his first being Nosotros (1993), which screened at the Berlin International Film Festival Forum (Germany) and won Best Film at the Bilbao Festival (Spain). The Custodian is his first feature film. Global Lens is sponsored by Dorothy Kirsch.

On the night of the big high-school Prom, the dead rise to eat the living, and the only people who can stop them are the losers who couldn’t get dates to the dance. Directed by Indie Memphis alum Gregg Bishop (THE OTHER SIDE).

On the evening of Nov. 5, 2001, Dr. Andrew Bagby, 28, was murdered in a parking lot in western Pennsylvania. The prime suspect, his ex-girlfriend Dr. Shirley Turner, promptly fled the United States for St. John's, Newfoundland -- where she announced that she was pregnant with Andrew's child. She named the little boy Zachary. Filmmaker Kurt Kuenne, Andrew's childhood friend, originally began this film as a way for little Zachary to learn about his father. But when Shirley Turner was allowed to walk free on bail in Canada and given custody of Zachary while awaiting extradition to the United States, the film's focus shifted to Zachary's grandparents, David & Kathleen Bagby, and their desperate efforts to win custody of the boy. Director's Bio: Kurt Kuenne is an award-winning filmmaker and composer of both fiction and documentary films. He is a winner of the Nicholl Fellowship in Screenwriting from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for his screenplay "Mason Mule", which he is slated to direct soon, and was named one of the top 25 new faces of indie film by Filmmaker Magazine following the completion of his first feature. His work includes the teen drama SCRAPBOOK starring Eric Balfour, the PBS Documentary DRIVE-IN MOVIE MEMORIES and a series of popular award-winning short films.

DIRTY GIRL chronicles cancer surgery from a female patient's perspective. Frightened and anxious, the woman's mind wanders as she imagines the battle between her dirty, cancerous tumors and the surgeon.