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Evergreen (2004)
Character: Chat
Seduced by a boy's affluent, seemingly idyllic family, a young girl goes to extremes to gain acceptance.
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The Favor (2001)
Character: Steve
A gay youth can't face buying porn at his local newsstand: will his straight friend help him?
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Building Brick (2006)
Character: N/A
Building Brick is the Behind the Scenes documentary for the film Brick (2006). Brick was written and directed by Rian Johnson in San Clemente, CA in 2003. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Lucas Haas, Noah Segan Building Brick was filmed and edited by L Jean Schwartz (Disclaimer: I shot most of this footage when I was 17 with my family camcorder, edited it when I was 19, and this is not a very high res version, but it has only been available on the German DVD so I wanted a way that my friends could see it) Also, I am endlessly immensely grateful to Rian Johnson for giving me the opportunity to be part of Brick.
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Double Parked (2000)
Character: Bret
A resourceful and high-spirited woman deals with financial distress and her asthmatic thirteen-year-old son when his life is gravely complicated by a new friendship with the son of her former drunken and abusive husband.
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Chasing the Dragon (1996)
Character: Sean Kessler
Working class mother becomes addicted to heroin, and soon her life falls apart.
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Patient 001 (2018)
Character: Eddie/Handyman-Son
A young-wife desperate to give her beloved comatose and dying husband a child considers her only option: cloning. Giving birth to a son fulfills her dream of having a family. But the arrival of the baby awakens a supernatural presence unleashing unexpected results. The family must make an impossible choice and live with a secret forever. (DCIFF)
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The Speed of Life (2007)
Character: Vincent
Sammer is a 13 year old boy who escapes the streets of New York City by stealing video cameras from tourists. He and his friends retreat to their working class neighborhood to quickly sell the cameras, but Sammer always keeps the tapes. Alone in his bedroom and editing on a rack of stolen computers, Sammer explores this world of footage, infatuated by all the far away places and other people’s seemingly happy lives.
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Mother's Day Massacre (2007)
Character: Bobby
Cheap thrills! It’s bargain basement horror time: a young man’s search for his estranged mother leads him to a terrifying encounter with ‘Pineys’, backwoods hillbillies with a taste for violence.
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Past the Bleachers (1995)
Character: Charlie
Bill and his wife have recently had to live through a tragedy. When Bill decides to coach a little league baseball team, he meets a young mute boy named Lucky, who may be just what the team needs in order to win. A very mysterious child, Lucky helps heal the wounds from Bill's past.
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11:11 (2011)
Character: Derek
Set in two periods of time and existence. Two young friends reunite in a new life and the only link between them and their previous lives is the synchronicity of 11:11.
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A Mother's Prayer (1995)
Character: T.J. Holmstrom
Rosemary Holmstrom is struggling to bring up her son following the death of her husband. When she is diagnosed with AIDS, at first she refuses to believe it, but soon turns her attentions to the problem of what will happen to her son when she dies.
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Hard Luck (2006)
Character: Sol Rosenbaum
Three converging story lines involving bootleggers, a serial killer and drug dealers are followed. A former drug dealer tries to go straight, but comes across a stash of stolen drugs. Meanwhile, a middle-aged suburban housewife hides a sadistic and vicious streak.
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Day On Fire (2006)
Character: Young Man
The lives of a Palestinian journalist and a Jewish model become inextricably, and shockingly, intertwined after they meet by accident in New York.
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Dead Souls (2012)
Character: Mack
On his 18th birthday, Johnny finds out that he's come into an inheritance - and his family were a lot stranger than he ever knew...
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Beware the Gonzo (2010)
Character: Ryan
Eddie "Gonzo" Gilman is starting a revolution. When the wild-eyed rebel journalist is ousted from his prep school's newspaper by its über-popular editor, Eddie fronts an underground movement to give a voice to all the misfits, outcasts, and nerds. Soon the power of the press is in Eddie's hands... but will he use it wisely?
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Joe the King (1999)
Character: Joe Henry
A destitute 14-year-old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother.
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Josh & S.A.M. (1993)
Character: Samuel 'Sam' 'Killer Sam' Whitney
Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile, Josh tells Sam that he is a "S.A.M." that is going to be sent to Africa to fight in a war and that Canada is a safe haven for any S.A.M. unwilling to fight. Will Josh & S.A.M. make it to Canada or will they wish they should have never left home?
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Capers (2009)
Character: Eric
Three teams of criminals share the same Brooklyn block, but each exists in a separate genre of film. The Amateurs are trapped in a 1970's anti-hero movie. The Sputniks live in black and white. The Moolies can't escape their rap video life.
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The Last Film Festival (2016)
Character: Stoner
Dennis Hopper plays Nick Twain, a Hollywood Producer whose latest film is rejected by every film festival in the world except one- in Ohio. Nick will do anything to get his film distributed, including manipulating his dysfunctional cast into attending the festival. Hollywood egos and small town politics inevitably collide.
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An Unexpected Life (1998)
Character: Matt Whitney
A single woman has her idyllic life disrupted when she takes in orphans. But, soon she comes to depend on the sound of little feet and couldn't think of life without them.
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Taking Chance (2009)
Character: Army Sergeant
Lt. Col. Michael Strobl, a volunteer military escort accompanies the body of Lance Cpl. Chance Phelps to his hometown in Wyoming.
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The Laramie Project (2002)
Character: Shannon Shingleton
"The Laramie Project" is set in and around Laramie, Wyoming, in the aftermath of the murder of 21-year-old Matthew Shepard. To create the stage version of "The Laramie Project," the eight-member New York-based Tectonic Theatre Project traveled to Laramie, Wyoming, recording hours of interviews with the town's citizens over a two-year period. The film adaptation dramatizes the troupe's visit, using the actual words from the transcripts to create a portrait of a town forced to confront itself.
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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her (2000)
Character: Jay (segment "Someone For Rose")
In California, a group of women struggle with personal problems as their paths intertwine in unexpected ways. Dr. Elaine Keener, the sole caretaker for her aging mother, turns to tarot card reader Christine for spiritual aid. Christine grapples with her own angst due to her lover's debilitating illness. Meanwhile, a bank manager deals with an unwanted pregnancy, two sisters pursue romantic interests and a housewife gets back into the dating game.
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Off the Black (2006)
Character: Todd Hunter
An aging, disillusioned alcoholic gets a younger friend and wants him to pose as his son at a school reunion.
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Storytelling (2001)
Character: Brady Livingston
College and high school serve as the backdrop for two stories about dysfunction and personal turmoil.
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Consent (2010)
Character: Ryan
A wealthy Manhattan family's inability to cope with the suicide of their eldest daughter sends them into a downward spiral of drugs, alcohol and sexual taboos that threatens to destroy them.
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Red Canyon (2008)
Character: Harley
In Red Canyon, Regina and Devon return to their family home in the badlands of Utah to face the memory of a brutal attack - and put it behind them. But in coming home they awaken a killing rage in a town where everyone has ties that bind.
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No Letting Go (2016)
Character: Sasha
A young teenager struggles with a debilitating mental illness as his mom risks everything to save him without losing the rest of her family.
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Brick (2006)
Character: Tugger
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
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Bad Day on the Block (1997)
Character: Zach Braverton
The heat is at record highs, the air conditioner is broken, the milk has gone bad, the repairman can't find the house... and then there's the neighbor. Lyle Wilder, a celebrated firefighter, whose scorn for the young Braverton family next door turns to outright assault as his heroic exterior begins to unravel from the inside.
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Stuck (2019)
Character: Eve's Cheating Boyfriend
A musical about six strangers who find themselves stuck on the New York City subway.
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Roommates (1995)
Character: Michael (age 5)
An elderly, yet young-at-heart man, moves in with his grandson, and both their lives turn upside-down.
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An Unexpected Family (1996)
Character: Matt Whitney
When Ruth Whitney abandons her two children with her sister Barbara is left to take care of them, at first none of them like it but soon they grow to like each other. Then over a year later Ruth comes back saying she wants her kids and Barbara goes to court to fight for custody.
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The Truth About Jane (2000)
Character: Ned
High schooler Jane struggles with the self-discovery that she is a lesbian after developing an intense friendship with another girl. However, this is only the start of Jane's troubles when her unaccepting mother Janice also contends with the surprising revelation brought forth by her only daughter.
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