He can sit, roll over, shake, speak, sing, fetch, play dead, and a few other non-standard dog tricks. Is there anything he can't do? This short film is still in production
	Thugs, the story of two young men who rely on brutal violence, calculated cruelty, and power tools to make their way in the world. A feature length film still in the early stages of production, Thugs promises to be one of most loved feel-good movies of its era ... if watching two ruthless bastards torment everyone around them makes you feel good. This film brings to life the motivations, fears, and deepest desires of two guys whose only friends are drink, cheese pizza, and each other. Thumper and Stony are the kind of guys you wouldn't want to meet in a dark alley, in a well lit alley, or pretty much anywhere else. When they aren't terrorizing (mostly) innocent victims, they're talking about it, reenacting their favorite past exploits, or planning their next senseless attack. This film is still in production
	This title of this short film, translated from the original Finnish, is quot;Sometimes He Is Latequot;. Shot in the suburbs of Helsinki on a grey and remorseless spring day, this film documents an unorthodox business meeting that goes woefully awry. This short film is still in production

There's a lot of buzz and BS these days about independent film makers. It's a real craze -- so much so that it almost guarantees a film labeled quot;indie" some measure of sucess. Like anything successful, it's being poked and prodded by the men behind the curtain, weighed and measured and analyzed so they can figure out how to shove it in a package and sell it.

Hey, don't get us wrong. There's nothing wrong with movies like The Lost World or Batman Eighteen or whatever. We go to see some of those movies in the theater, and we'll watch anything on cable once or twice. Everything has its place.

But don't shove some well-intentioned $199,999.00 movie down our throats and try to sell it to us as an independent production because it's got a budget of less than a million bucks.

All of our productions are shot by a handful of people for a little more than a handful of cash. That doesn't mean they suck, or that they even look like the old style, grainy Super 8 badly dubbed independent film. Technology has come a long way, and you can get some damn good results with some pretty unfancy equipment these days. It does mean that we've had to be dedicated to making these films to overcome the obstacles small budget productions face, and that each and every Obscura production is going to be a labor of love first and foremost. They're going to reflect that dedication and passion in ways that some of the bigger quot;independentquot; movies can only approximate.

At least until one of our projects makes it big and we sell out, at which point you're all entitled to a ride in our Range Rover.

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