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SONG FOR HOPE: THE RYAN ANTHONY STORY
NEW SHOES
FRANNIE
OAK ON THE OUTSIDE
FLAMES
APOTHEOSIS
THE DRIVE
Eric Swinderman

THROUGH THE STARS
You can’t go back. The life altering mistake you made, the loved one you lost – there’s no amount of quantum mechanics that can undo

SONG FOR HOPE: THE RYAN ANTHONY STORY
We’re all going to die, so what’s the point? Throw in a cancer diagnosis and the futility of the human condition really comes into focus.

NEW SHOES
Set in 90’s Portland, teenager Tristan (Jacob Moran) and his prostitute mother Elaine (Laura Whiteley) live as normally as drug addiction allows. They have a

FRANNIE
Behind the wheel of her affordable compact car, Frannie (Emily Brolin) is on the run, and the posse in hot pursuit is her family. Her

OAK ON THE OUTSIDE
The intentions of Adrian Roman’s Oak on the Outside are so earnest, so pure, that it becomes difficult to criticize the film’s flaws, of which

FLAMES
Flames opens with an aerial view of an urban town, quiet but populated, during the last minutes of twilight. A bustling transit line stretches before

APOTHEOSIS
Why wait for evolution to engineer a better breed of human? Max Pearce asks us just that question in a film called Apotheosis. Taking place

THE DRIVE
Dan Karlok’s devastating short drama The Drive proves that you don’t need a large budget, or a lengthy running time for that matter, to create

Eric Swinderman
Take2IndieReview sits down with writer and director Eric Swinderman to discuss his feature film The Enormity of Life. Where were you born and raised? I