Successful television chef Joanna travels to her finace Alex’s home town in Austria, where he has inherited his father’s isolated manor home. Soon after they arrive, Joanna comes across strange inconsistencies in Alex’ past and embarks on a search for the truth. Mysterious accidents start happening that seem to threaten her life, and Joanna’s worst fears are confirmed when she discovers Alex’ real identify and dark secret.

Based on a true story, set in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1964:
Having contracted polio at 22 while pregnant, Paige Dunn delivers her baby from an iron lung. Even though her husband divorces her shortly thereafter, Paige insists on raising her daughter Diana. Able to move only her head, Paige requires round-the clock nursing care, but in comparison to many of the petty small town characters, lives a life fuller than most. Now 13, Diana is sharing her mother's care with no-nonsense African-American day worker Peacie. But when Peacie's boyfriend, LaRue, ventures down the perilous path of helping register black voters during Freedom Summer, trouble follows and nearly breaks all of them apart.

Somewhere in Reno, Nevada, handsome low-life Ricky Hershey lies in bed puffing a joint. His reverie is interrupted by a gang of mask-wearing thugs who burst in. They warn him off his affair with Sylvia White. Sylvia, you see, is engaged to Sebastian Stempel-Garamond, a rising executive. Her rich bully-boy father, Harry White, regards the union as a corporate merger … and nothing’s going to stop him staging the biggest, gaudiest wedding in history.

Harry and Ricky’s mutual dislike is amplified by a historical feud. Pops, Ricky’s father, may now be a wheelchair-bound religious nut, but he was once involved in some shady activity with Harry. The way Ricky sees it, Pops was ruined by time spent in prison, which he served as Harry’s fall guy. This makes him all the more determined to run off with Harry’s pride and joy — his darling daughter.

Too close to her forced marriage, Sylvia knows she really loves Ricky. But she is has been unable to “hurt” Sebastian or her father. So this impossibly gorgeous young woman strings both along. Tortured Ricky confides his woes in best friend Kilcline who, in turn, reveals the complexities of his on-off relationship with June, a hard-nosed career girl.

Kilcline, a businessman himself, has influence with the Whites and may be able to act as an intermediary. But when he hears of Ricky and Sylvia’s plan to elope to Las Vegas, he finds that his interest runs too deep.

Will Ricky and Sylvia successfully elope? Will Harry eliminate Ricky once and for all? Via a hit man, buried money, existentialist philosophy, a porn star, a UFO and a car chase, things come to an unusual conclusion — all chorused by radio talkshow host Melvin Smarty, whose outrageous on-air ramblings punctuate proceedings.

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"The Portable Tower" is a revolutionary 10 story event and advertising venue built with 200 tons of recycled steel. It can be erected anywhere within three days and can hold up to 1,000 plus people. This is made possible by ConXtech (www.conxtech.com), a cutting-edge company that designed a pioneering, state-of-the-art building technology that is changing the world.

The world is entering a new era. We are familiar with global warming, peak oil and peak natural gas. What is facing us next is peak food, peak farmable soil and peak water. We have seen the devastating effects of this intensifying in the last year. “How To Feed the World” focuses on biointensive farming, a simple, back-to-the-basics method that has been around for millennia and uses a fraction of the resources we have become accustomed to.

Our short film is an overview of the Biointensive Method and an introduction to our feature length film about how to use it and farm sustainably.

Kids are consumed with digital media. The Kaiser Family Foundation surveyed US children aged 6 -16 in 2010 and found they devote 8½ hours daily, on average, to digital media, up from 7 hours in 2005. How much time remains for school and homework, meals, playing and sleeping? Observes Stanford Professor Jeremy Bailenson, the head of Stanford’s Virtual Human Interaction Lab and author of the new book, Infinite Reality, "Children are like fish in water: eating, breathing and living inside these digital spaces."

Sankari's creators recognize this generational immersion and its potential effects, both positive and negative. Nonetheless, digital living is a burgeoning and permanent part of growing up today in America and worldwide – hence Sankari.

Sankari is a game-changing, online, multiplayer video game targeted at players ages 8-16. Via exciting explorations and missions on every continent, and via riveting violence-free gameplay cast in unequaled fidelity for this market, players are given the opportunity to make the real world a better place. Sankari connects both the virtual and the real world in a socially networked setting that is gripping, super fun, instructive, feel-good and arrestingly novel.

The team behind Sankari is led by video game developers and producers whose titles have generated over $3 billion in revenue – among them NFL Fever, Lord of the Rings, James Bond, Spiderman, X-Men, Call of Duty, Guitar Hero and Transformers. They're complemented by proven veterans from the film, non profit/grantmaking and consumer marketing worlds – each squarely on-point with Sankari's mission.

For more information please e-mail info@liriafilms.com.