Kate Lyn Sheil

Kate Lyn Sheil

Born: June 13, 1985
in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA
Kate Lyn Sheil is an actress and writer, known for You're Next (2011), Equals (2015) and Green (2011). She has a BFA in Acting from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts and studied acting for four years at the Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute, under Anna Strasberg, Geoffrey Horne, and Robert Castle.

Movies for Kate Lyn Sheil...

The Seeding
Title: The Seeding
Character: Alina
Released: January 26, 2024
Type: Movie
When a hiker gets lost in the desert, a gang of feral children propelled by haunting legacies traps him in a sadistic battle for survival with a frightening endgame.
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Title: Swarm
Character: Cricket
Released: March 16, 2023
Type: TV
A young woman's obsession with a pop star takes a dark turn.
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Jamojaya
Title: Jamojaya
Character: Shannon
Released: January 22, 2023
Type: Movie
A rapper with a rising career hires a US manager and label, taking over from his father who has steered it to date.
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Ghostwritten
Title: Ghostwritten
Character: Pilot
Released: June 19, 2022
Type: Movie
Clinging to the reputation of his one hit novel, writer Guy Laury accepts a winter residency on a reclusive island whose residents seem friendly at first. The discovery of a lost manuscript and its possible ties to a longstanding local murder case, however, throw into question the intentions of everyone around him.
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Title: Saturday Morning All Star Hits!
Character: (voice)
Released: December 10, 2021
Type: TV
Wildly irreverent and slightly disturbing, this adult animation, live-action hybrid celebrates the campy, Saturday-morning shows of the '80s and '90s.
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Kendra and Beth
Title: Kendra and Beth
Character: Beth
Released: October 1, 2021
Type: Movie
A dark comedy about the only female employee in the warehouse of a sausage company who forms an unlikely bond with a stranger that throws both their lives into disarray, leaving them forever changed.
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The Wanting Mare
Title: The Wanting Mare
Character: Narrator
Released: February 5, 2021
Type: Movie
In Whithren, a line of women pass a recurring dream through multiple generations.
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Materna
Title: Materna
Character: Jean
Released: October 1, 2020
Type: Movie
A psychological portrait of four women, whose lives are bound together by an incident on the New York City subway.
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She Dies Tomorrow
Title: She Dies Tomorrow
Character: Amy
Released: July 31, 2020
Type: Movie
Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her skeptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through what might be the last day of their lives.
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White Echo
Title: White Echo
Character: Carla
Released: October 21, 2019
Type: Movie
Five women in their thirties examine their own power in life.
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The Sound of Silence
Title: The Sound of Silence
Character: Nancy
Released: September 13, 2019
Type: Movie
A successful "house tuner" in New York City, who calibrates the sound in people's homes in order to adjust their moods, meets a client with a problem he can't solve.
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Relations
Title: Relations
Character: Candace
Released: May 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Two adult cousins have different views on a secret sexual encounter from their youth.
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Lost Holiday
Title: Lost Holiday
Character: Margaret
Released: May 3, 2019
Type: Movie
Margaret Rockland is as depressed as the ubiquitous Christmas carols are cheerful when she returns to the Washington DC suburb of her childhood for a reunion. The wild bunch she grew up with have settled into respectable family life. Adding insult to injury, her former boyfriend is engaged to the most bourgeois blonde on the East Coast. Margaret reacts by diving into a drinking and drugs marathon. With two remaining fellow souls, she roams the suburban no man’s land and ends up in an incomparable adventure with kidnapping, extortion, misunderstandings and clumsy violence as basic ingredients.
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Jobe'z World
Title: Jobe'z World
Character: Trish
Released: November 2, 2018
Type: Movie
A rollerblading drug dealer runs into trouble when one of his customers dies.
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Mountain Rest
Title: Mountain Rest
Character: Frankie
Released: May 12, 2018
Type: Movie
After sequestering herself to a small mountain town, an aging actress calls her estranged daughter and granddaughter home for reconciliation and one final celebration.
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Intervene
Title: Intervene
Character: Justine
Released: April 25, 2018
Type: Movie
INTERVENE is a surreal, hypnogogic parable about an unstable young man whose family feeds his madness by staging religious visions.
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Golden Exits
Title: Golden Exits
Character: Patient
Released: February 9, 2018
Type: Movie
An intersectional narrative of two families in Brooklyn and the unraveling of unspoken unhappiness that occurs when a young foreign girl spending time abroad upsets the balance on both sides.
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Radio Mary
Title: Radio Mary
Character: Mary
Released: November 28, 2017
Type: Movie
Mary (Kate Lyn Sheil) lives alone. She is waiting for something to happen in her life. Riding the elevator to work, a strange man, Hayward, grabs her shoulder and speaks to her telepathically. “Do you believe in magic?” This triggers a nervous breakdown. After a visit to the emergency room, Mary goes to stay at her sister’s house, and goes into therapy. Mary can now hear people’s thoughts, and she starts hearing music that seems to be broadcast from her mind. Adapted by Gary Walkow from his novel of the same name.
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Thank You for Your Service
Title: Thank You for Your Service
Character: Bell
Released: October 26, 2017
Type: Movie
A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
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Brigsby Bear
Title: Brigsby Bear
Character: Arielle Smiles
Released: July 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Brigsby Bear Adventures is a children's TV show produced for an audience of one: James. When the show abruptly ends, James's life changes forever, and he sets out to finish the story himself.
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Buster's Mal Heart
Title: Buster's Mal Heart
Character: Marty
Released: May 28, 2017
Type: Movie
An eccentric mountain man on the run from the local sheriff recalls the mysterious events that brought him to his present fugitive state.
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Talk About Your Dreams
Title: Talk About Your Dreams
Released: October 31, 2016
Type: Movie
Locked out of her apartment and on a pill that turns anxiety-triggering situations into acceptable hallucinations, a virtual reality porn star and her dejected assassin get drunk, sing karaoke, and eat ramen.
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Title: Easy
Character: Annie's Roommate
Released: September 22, 2016
Type: TV
This eclectic, star-studded anthology follows diverse Chicagoans fumbling through the modern maze of love, sex, technology and culture. First dates, friends with benefits, couples with kids. Whatever your relationship status is, it's always complicated.
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Title: High Maintenance
Character: Jules
Released: September 16, 2016
Type: TV
Jump into the daily routines of a diverse group of New Yorkers and how they light things up. “The Guy” is a nameless pot deliveryman whose client base includes an eccentric group of characters with neuroses as diverse as the city.
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Kate Plays Christine
Title: Kate Plays Christine
Character: Self / Christine Chubbuck
Released: August 24, 2016
Type: Movie
Follow actress Kate Lyn Sheil as she prepares for her next role: playing Christine Chubbuck, a Florida newscaster who committed suicide live on-air in 1974. As Kate investigates Chubbuck’s story, uncovering new clues and information, she becomes increasingly obsessed with her subject.
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Men Go to Battle
Title: Men Go to Battle
Character: Josephine Small
Released: July 8, 2016
Type: Movie
Kentucky, 1861. Francis and Henry Mellon depend on each other to keep their unkempt estate afloat as winter encroaches. After Francis takes a casual fight too far, Henry ventures off in the night, leaving each of them to struggle through the wartime on their own.
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Title: The Girlfriend Experience
Character: Avery Suhr
Released: April 10, 2016
Type: TV
Explore the relationships between exclusive escorts and their clients, for whom they provide far more than just sex. Known as GFEs, they are women who provide “The Girlfriend Experience”—emotional and sexual relationships at a very high price.
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10 Crosby
Title: 10 Crosby
Character: Kate
Released: February 2, 2016
Type: Movie
A series of short films following the interconnected lives on Crosby street, New York City.
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Children
Title: Children
Character: Heidi
Released: December 31, 2015
Type: Movie
Two young women escape to the rugged mountains of Southern Idaho during a hazy, wildfire-filled summer, convinced they are living in the end times.
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Octopus
Title: Octopus
Character: Olivia
Released: October 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Inspired by true events, The Network Diaries: Octopus tells the story of a girl named Olivia, some real life Octopuses and how they saved one another, all thanks to the help of the AT&T Network.
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Equals
Title: Equals
Character: Kate
Released: July 15, 2015
Type: Movie
A futuristic love story set in a world where emotions have been eradicated.
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Tears of God
Title: Tears of God
Character: Ida
Released: May 2, 2015
Type: Movie
Longing for reunion with the dead and seduced by the chaotic allure of possession, a young woman struggles to find meaning in a barren, apocalyptic landscape, while those around her succumb to despair and madness.
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A Wonderful Cloud
Title: A Wonderful Cloud
Character: Katelyn
Released: March 16, 2015
Type: Movie
When Eugene’s ex-GF Katelyn lands in LA to disband their business, the two of them must negotiate between past tensions and future possibilities, in this raw bittersweet rom-com that walks the line between fiction and reality.
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Kiss Kiss Fingerbang
Title: Kiss Kiss Fingerbang
Character: Alison
Released: March 13, 2015
Type: Movie
A nice guy discovers his dark side when his girlfriend reveals her secret weakness.
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Queen of Earth
Title: Queen of Earth
Character: Michelle
Released: February 7, 2015
Type: Movie
Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.
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Super Sleuths
Title: Super Sleuths
Character: Sally Blue Frankenfrass
Released: December 4, 2014
Type: Movie
Marie takes a break from her own heartache to help her best friend Sally Blue Frankenfrass find her missing boyfriend, but the duo keeps getting distracted along the way.
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The Heart Machine
Title: The Heart Machine
Character: Virginia
Released: October 24, 2014
Type: Movie
A man begins to suspect that his long-distance girlfriend, whom he met online but has never met in person, has been living in the same city the whole time and sets out to find her.
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Thanksgiving
Title: Thanksgiving
Character: Kate
Released: July 3, 2014
Type: Movie
It's Thanksgiving, and Amy and Alex are in love. But Alex's plans to marry his girlfriend are disrupted by the arrival of Will -- A stranger, introduced as Amy's brother. when Alex and Will find themselves on a hike together the next day, Alex confronts his suspicions, and discovers Will's true identity as Amy's former lover. With a rival at the door, and his fiance's intentions called into doubt, Alex must reexamine a future that had once seemed so certain. over a tumultuous two days, romance becomes resentment as questions of love, ideology, and commitment are all brought to bear on the lives of these three young New Yorkers.
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Intimate Semaphores
Title: Intimate Semaphores
Character: Nora
Released: May 29, 2014
Type: Movie
A collection of three strange and comedic short stories examining the perils of artistic expression.
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Helberger in Paradise
Title: Helberger in Paradise
Character: Nora
Released: May 29, 2014
Type: Movie
A young New Yorker stealthily returns to her suburban home town to attend her first love's funeral and make good on a bizarre promise. All that stands in her way is an obsessively moralistic cab driver.
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Listen Up Philip
Title: Listen Up Philip
Character: Nancy
Released: May 7, 2014
Type: Movie
Anger rages in Philip as he awaits the publication of his second novel. He feels pushed out of his adopted home city by the constant crowds and noise, a deteriorating relationship with his photographer girlfriend Ashley, and his own indifference to promoting the novel. When Philip's idol Ike Zimmerman offers his isolated summer home as a refuge, he finally gets the peace and quiet to focus on his favorite subject: himself.
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Young Bodies Heal Quickly
Title: Young Bodies Heal Quickly
Character: Sister
Released: April 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore.
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The Sacrament
Title: The Sacrament
Character: Sarah
Released: September 2, 2013
Type: Movie
Two journalists set out to document their friend's journey to reunite with his estranged sister. They track her to an undisclosed location where they are welcomed into the remote world of "Eden Parish," a self-sustained rural utopia composed of nearly two hundred members and overseen by a mysterious leader known only as "Father." It quickly becomes evident to the newcomers that this paradise may not be as it seems. Eden Parish harbors a twisted secret. What started as just another documentary shoot soon becomes a fight for survival.
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The Apocalypse
Title: The Apocalypse
Character: Kate
Released: September 1, 2013
Type: Movie
Four uninspired friends try to come up with a terrific idea for how to spend their Saturday afternoon.
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You're Next
Title: You're Next
Character: Talia
Released: August 22, 2013
Type: Movie
When the Davison family comes under attack during their wedding anniversary getaway, the gang of mysterious killers soon learns that one of their victims harbors a secret talent for fighting back.
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Hellaware
Title: Hellaware
Character: Lexie
Released: June 22, 2013
Type: Movie
Aspiring but less than ambitious photographer Nate clumsily navigates the New York City art world in a post-grad haze, waiting for his breakthrough project to fall into his lap. During a drug-fueled wormhole through the annals of YouTube, Nate discovers his next subjects when an arbitrary click lands him on a crude music video by the Young Torture Killaz—an Insane Clown Posse knock-off group of jaded Delaware teens with a lot to scream about—and the inspiration (and exploitation) flows
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Pollywogs
Title: Pollywogs
Character: Sarah
Released: June 14, 2013
Type: Movie
Left reeling by his latest catastrophic breakup, Dylan retreats to Minnesota for a family reunion featuring firearms, heavy metal and unwelcome questions. Amongst the throng of relatives, he discovers Sarah, the childhood crush he hasn't seen since her family decamped to a religious compound. Could she prove to be the perpetually heartbroken Dylan's salvation or will their emotional scars fail to align?
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Sun Don't Shine
Title: Sun Don't Shine
Character: Crystal
Released: April 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.
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Title: House of Cards
Character: Lisa Williams
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: TV
Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a ruthless and cunning politician, and his wife Claire who will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of greed, sex and corruption in modern D.C.
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Somebody Up There Likes Me
Title: Somebody Up There Likes Me
Character: Ex-wife
Released: January 22, 2013
Type: Movie
Thirty-five years in the life of Max, his best friend Sal and a woman they both adore, Lyla. The trio stumble through mandatory but seemingly unfulfilling entanglements, at weddings, funerals, hospitals, eateries, divorce courts and the tool shed. A deadpan fable about time sneaking up on and swerving right around us.
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Open Five 2
Title: Open Five 2
Released: December 13, 2012
Type: Movie
A relationship drama set amid a winter van trip from New York to New Orleans. A loose continuation of the 2010 film.
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The Comedy
Title: The Comedy
Character: Waitress
Released: November 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Indifferent to the notion of inheriting his father's estate, a restless, aging New Yorker passes time with his friends in games of mock sincerity, irreverence, and recreational cruelty towards those around them.
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First Winter
Title: First Winter
Character: Kate
Released: October 11, 2012
Type: Movie
When winter begins, life is serene for a group of new-age Brooklynites living in a remote country farmhouse. Sex, drugs, yoga, and organic cooking absorb their days, safely tucked away from the stresses of urban life. But when a blackout of apocalyptic proportions strands them with no heat and no electricity during the coldest winter on record, their utopian commune is breached by anxiety and their idyllic harmony begins to lose its tune. As time wears on and the food supply dwindles, power struggles, jealousy, and desire threaten the group's ability to work together in order to survive.
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V/H/S
Title: V/H/S
Character: The Stalker (segment "Second Honeymoon")
Released: July 28, 2012
Type: Movie
When a group of misfits is hired by an unknown third party to burglarize a desolate house and acquire one rare VHS tape, they discover more found footage than they had bargained for.
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The Unspeakable Act
Title: The Unspeakable Act
Character: Madeleine
Released: June 24, 2012
Type: Movie
17-year-old Jackie is in distress as her older brother Matthew gets his first girlfriend and prepares for college. Though Matthew does not share her incestuous desire, Jackie fights the intrusion of reality on her idyllic childhood world.
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Cat Scratch Fever
Title: Cat Scratch Fever
Character: Mary Ellen
Released: June 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Two young women discover a way to view parallel universe versions of themselves via the internet, and rapidly become obsessed with watching the alternate paths that their lives might have taken.
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Empire Builder
Title: Empire Builder
Character: Jenny
Released: March 5, 2012
Type: Movie
Jenny's life has changed significantly since she had a baby. her days of food activism and urban anthropology have been replaced by diapers and playtime at the park. When she inherits a cabin in Montana, she leaves the comfort of her Chicago high-rise and travels with her baby to a remote part of the country. While she waits for her husband to join her, she fashions a temporary life of independence for herself - one which takes an unsettling turn when she begins a dangerous relationship with the man her husband hired to fix the property.
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Stray Bullets
Title: Stray Bullets
Released: February 1, 2012
Type: Movie
A short film by Joe Swanberg included on the DVD of Silver Bullets. "footage from the first month of shooting a film that became Silver Bullets "several of the actors from Silver Bullets are playing different characters here "i hope this provides a window into my improvisatory process "this footage is not sound mixed or color corrected the dialogue is difficult to hear at times" — Joe Swanberg
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Second Honeymoon
Title: Second Honeymoon
Character: Girl
Released: January 12, 2012
Type: Movie
A married couple, Sam and Stephanie, go out to the West for their second honeymoon and rent a hotel room. The couple visit a Wild West themed attraction where Stephanie receives a prediction from a mechanical fortune teller. The prediction says that she will be visited by a loved one. Later that night while at the hotel the couple is visited by a strange woman (the events are not shown on camera) who asks for a ride in the morning.
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Silver Bullets
Title: Silver Bullets
Character: Claire
Released: October 28, 2011
Type: Movie
An actress and her filmmaker boyfriend experience turbulence in their relationship when she accepts a role in a werewolf film.
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Autoerotic
Title: Autoerotic
Released: July 22, 2011
Type: Movie
Autoerotic follows four interconnected Chicago couples as they explore the boundaries of self-pleasure and sexual exploration. Through a unique blend of outrageous comedy and in-your-face sex, Autoerotic insightfully illuminates the private sexual lives of America’s urbanites.
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Green
Title: Green
Character: Genevieve
Released: June 22, 2011
Type: Movie
A New Yorker moves to the country with her boyfriend, where her new friendship causes a problem as her partner also takes an interest in the woman.
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The Color Wheel
Title: The Color Wheel
Character: Julia
Released: April 1, 2011
Type: Movie
JR, an aspiring news-anchor, forces her younger brother Colin to embark on a road trip to move her belongings out of her professor-turned-lover’s place. Traveling through New England, they uncomfortably run into old school-mates or revisit familial history from which they have long since diverged.
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The Zone
Title: The Zone
Character: Kate
Released: March 16, 2011
Type: Movie
A mysterious visitor spends the night at an apartment belonging to a young engaged couple and their friend. Over the course of the night and the following day he sleeps with all three roommates and then disappears, leading to conversations about God, life and filmmaking.
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Happy Life
Title: Happy Life
Character: Leslie
Released: January 11, 2011
Type: Movie
New York Tunez, an all techno record store, is going under. The owner, Keith, a down and out trance DJ, struggles to cope with the changing cultural climate. In a final effort to save the store he organizes a rave. Unfortunately, 2009 is a far cry from the early '90's.
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SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)
Title: SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)
Character: Self
Released: September 19, 2010
Type: Movie
A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his close friends and gets involved with a New Age, Right-wing, domestic terrorist cell.
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Gabi on the Roof in July
Title: Gabi on the Roof in July
Character: Dory
Released: February 27, 2010
Type: Movie
An ambitious painter on the verge of a big break confronts his moral decay when his idealist, hell-raising, younger sister comes to stay with him in New York City for the summer.
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Impolex
Title: Impolex
Character: Katje
Released: June 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Impolex tells the story of Tyrone S., a United States soldier in Operation Paperclip, the mission to locate and retrieve German rockets and rocket science after the end of World War II. Tyrone is tasked with finding what he believes are the last V-2’s. Lost in the woods of an undefined European country, people from Tyrone’s past begin to appear in unusual ways, bearing strange tidings. A loved one he abandoned for the war is especially prominent in Tyrone’s journey, as is a fellow soldier and a mysterious man with tidings of the present and the future that are not yet known to Tyrone.
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Knife Point
Title: Knife Point
Character: Anna Hurley
Released: January 16, 2009
Type: Movie
An evangelical family offers a traveling knife salesman a ride on their way through upstate New York.