NYC PictureStart Awards 2009

Three generations of women from a single family experience loss and then redemption and hope made possible by the sacrifices that they make for each other.

Walt lives on the farm with his recently separated father. Their routine is interrupted when a young woman shows up to use the phone.

Today Carissa Phelps is earning a law degree and an MBA from UCLA. But when she was twelve, she was homeless and forced into prostitution in Fresno. Carissa recounts her story.

From the Cannes Film Festival 2009 Short Film Corner - "College Professor Fired for Casually Removing His Spine," Jeffrey Gurian took his experience writing for the legendary Weekly World News and created Gurian News Network, your source for "All The News That's Fit To Dance To", short animated films including "Man Robs Bank With His Chin", George Washington Wore Wooden Pants, and "College Professor Fired for Casually Removing His Spine," some of the strangest stories on the planet! In "College Professor Fired for Casually Removing His Spine," as the result of a severe car accident, Herb Sturm a college professor from Windsor, Ontario winds up with a removable spine, which he has to take out periodically in order to clean. When he starts casually removing his spine at random in class, and asking the students to help him re-insert it, the administration feels it has to let him go. Now it's in the courts!

When Kweisi's brother was murdered, he fell into a deep depression -- and pulled himself out through poetry.