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- . A very unhappily-married aging Socrates in Ancient Athens tries to maintain the loving and mind-stimulating relationship with his old flame Aspasia, an extremely intelligent, artistic and compassionate courtesan from another country who secretly influences but is never officially part of Athenian politics. Socrates is nagged to death by his ignorant, crude, selfish and abusive wife while Aspasia deals with the 'moralistically and otherwise required' abuse from Lysiles a high level popular politician who 'owns' her as a Mistress. Tensions rise and decisions have to be made when Lysiles, whose life was saved by Socrates in the Peloponnesian War long ago, seeks revenge on the Revolutionary philosopher in many ways, and for secret reasons of which Socrates has no knowledge. At stake, the survival, sanity and legacy of both Socrates as well as Aspasia. (75 min, 2021)
- Pictures of Albert Einstein before 1905 show a young man who is arrogant and narrow minded, photos of him afterwards are quite different. History shows that something very revolutionary happened to Albert during that year while working as a third class Swiss patent clerk. Little known history is that Albert's first wife, Mileva, a brilliant physicist/mathematician, was a major collaborator in the four revolutionary theories that bear the Einstein name for that year. Even less known is that Albert and Mileva had severe mental health issues individually and collectively, and that the young Albert was not the expansive thinker and global humanitarian that he became in later years. This film shows how a 'common' Janitor educates Albert scientifically, spiritually and emotionally, and councils Mileva as well, keeping the dynamic duo together for one more year, thus enabling the world to benefit from their synergistic wisdom and brilliance.
- When Hitler invades the USSR, Joseph Stalin locks himself in his room, where an intelligent, dominatrix female psychiatrist with secret agenda tries to get him sane, and humane.
- Hyper-intense, ultra-intelligent, super-cynical female stand up comic meets naive, pathetically-kind, Bible-thumper idealist farm boy who thinks the Lord has commanded him to be stand up comic.
- Historical fiction based on real fact about what allowed Nicola Tesla to continue inventing for 20 years after his near demise by his own hand. It's the third decade of the 20th century, and master inventor/innovator Nicola Tesla is getting...old, his physical health not doing so good. His mental health is not so good either. He has spent his entire life trying to serve and revolutionize the world through his ground breaking inventions, but his scientific and economic competitors have thrown him out of the loop, leaving him in a dingy apartment in New York with barely enough money to feed himself and the animals around him, the only life forms he still trusts. The most prominent person who discredited and betrayed Nicola is Thomas Edison, all American success story who made much of his fortune by stealing Tesla's work, particularly in Nicola's younger years when he came to America to work for the famous inventor. But now Nicola is done...no one is listening to him anymore, and all of his funding has dried up. His brain has dried up with regard to new ideas as well, and 'when the singer has no songs to sing, the singer should be no more'. He puts off jumping off the roof of his overdue-rent apartment by a reporter, Virginia, a young woman who claims to have been sent by Milosovich, the only historian still interested in the old man who was once nominated for the Nobel Prize but is now labelled as a delusional idealist, and political subversive. Virginia claims that she wants to do a story on Nicola, but he soon interviews her, finding out very quickly that she is far more intelligent than her station as a lower rung interviewer for the NY Times. Virginia has a brilliant scientific mind that just needs someone to recognize it, and to let her participate in the "mans' world" of scientific innovation. Finally seeing someone to whom he can pass on his Torch of scientific wisdom and the vitality-infused Spiritual Core from which it comes, Nicola (as his health deteriorates) relates his life story and most valued inventions to Virginia. She tries to convince him that being a success in the world as it is requires one to 'give the world what it wants, not what it needs', but such is the mandate of selfish capitalists such as Edison according to the still idealistic, humanity-serving Tesla. They argue, and then connect even deeper than before, Tesla offering to take Virginia on as his only apprentice, and willing to entrust her the lab book with his most valued (and guarded) ideas in it. He is willing to do this even though he figures out that she was not sent by Milosovich, as she originally claimed. But Virginia teaches Nicola something as well. The old man finally realizes regarding his inventions that the world accepting his ideas is up to 'a Higher Wisdom' and his Calling, and job, is to just keep coming up with new ideas. It eases his tortured soul and gets his creative soul working again. He sends Virginia out the door with his most trusted lab books, convinced that she will build upon his discoveries with her own. But, Virginia is confronted after she leaves by Thomas Edison, Nicola's arch rival who is still bent on discrediting Tesla as well as stealing from him. Virginia is to get a lab or her own and funding, and lots of money from Edison as part of the deal...but, she delays handing over the book to Edison. She keeps Tesla's most valued and guarded discoveries to herself as she walks away from both scientists, now having to figure out who SHE really is and needs to become.
- A pathologically humanistic physician writing his memoirs about the people/patients who made him what he has become is visited by them from the land of the living and the dead, with bigger problems than brain cancer.
- Roberta Collineur, Ph.D., D.V.M., First Nations woman who is scientifically brilliant and tied to her cultural Spirit roots, has just graduated vet school after clawing her way out of an abusive and self-destructive past. Pans to start a new life in a prestigious clinic in Vancouver are foiled when she nearly runs over a wounded pup that mysteriously appears in the dead of night, leaving her stranded and penniless in a town filled with colorfully-dysfunctional rugged individualists with no shortage of secret pasts and present vulnerabilities. Top on the list is Doc Henry Steiner, old Redneck White veterinarian with a mysterious past, who hires Roberta for reasons he keeps to himself. Terri, a hyper-optimistic and naive neo-Hippie mechanic/veterinary assistant who really does believe that all you need is love, is about to have her eyes open to the world as it really is. Norma runs a highly illegal but effective animals rescue operation and is a Platonic friend of Doc Henry who wants to be more...perhaps. Cowboy Hank, dream man garage owner, whose real identity is known to no one else in town, offers Roberta genuine love, which she wants to trust but can't. Deathhound, a super-intelligent and ultra-cynical Goth born to dim-witted pseudo-liberal rich parents, seeks a role model and teacher she can believe in. Roberta is changed by and changes the lives of all around her, mostly for the better, but destructive people from her very dark past (e.g., her abusive father and even more manipulative pimp-dope dealer hubby) follow her in her dreams, and reality. Very real ghosts from Henry's past are also bent on destroying what the culturally-mismatched animal docs are building, along with the community of Knife Bend that is, so far anyway, a model for independence and vitality in a dead, lifeless and cruel world. Adopted from published novels of same title by MJ Politis.
- A brilliant, suave and powerful scientist-physician in 1950s, with the help of his aristocratic wife, makes contracts with hookers, has sex with them, then legally (and sometimes violently) extracts out the fetal material for scientific study, till one of the hookers, a down and out Polish Auchwitz survivor, wants out of the deal. In the process of getting away, she takes with her the Professor's favorite student/protégée, as well as the biological secrets that can make him turn any biological tissue into any any another kind of tissue which said protégée developed using his boss' tissue, and lab. Mother, unborn child, protégée child and powerful scientific secrets escape to North America, and go underground, then come to grips with the Professor 20 years later when he is even more powerful, now funded by powerful American Military renegades who want to use the cloning technology for destructive purposes, using the 'science does whatever it has to to keep funded' Professor as its Captain, no doubt involving even more unwilling 'fetal donors' as part of the 'crew'. Based on many true stories.
- A Quixotic, rapidly-aging Greek Canadian Cowboy holds on to his land honor and vitality, refusing to move on to the Realm of Light until he leaves all of the above to his soul-dead, yet beloved, nephew.
- Two souls exchange roles as student and teacher in various incarnations that reflect development of humankind from cavemen times to present day, their growth catalyzed by a behind-the-scene 'third wheel' soul with secret agendas.