Sacramento Film and Music Festival 2008

Do you remember your first memory? First kiss? First love? Movie? Crush? Concert? First time you masturbated? First car? First time you had sex? This short film explores these and many more of all life's 'firsts' in a very real, raw,charming and emotionally charged way. Over 50 people were interviewed and filmed. Are we really all the same? Or different? You decide.

Abbey Jacobs is a 12-year-old upright bass prodigy whose true love is baseball. On the afternoon before an elite music school audition, Abbey tricks her mom into thinking she's practicing and sneaks off to a Cubs game with the boy down the block. But when she leaves the safety of suburbia and arrives at Chicago's Wrigley Field, she discovers a truth about her divorced parents that changes her relationship with her mother and her instrument, forever.

Five people bought together in an elevator are about to be murdered. Who are they and why must they die.

Rwanda. 14 years after the genocide that took away the lives of more than 800.000 people. What's the current situation of the country? What feelings prevail in the hearts of the victims? Can victims and killers live together? What's the importance of education in a society that has lived through a genocide? May a genocide happen again in Rwanda? Who should act when a genocide is happening? Do we, as individuals, have any responsibility?

Mob father's stuggle to keep his only son a part of the business.

Traveling cross-country on a bus that’s seen better days, The Faithway Doves – a struggling Southern, African-American family gospel group – are in pursuit of a dream: to expand their ministry; to perform their songs of praise for a broader audience; to become successful recording artists; to make it big. Director John Mounier follows the Doves for more than four years of chasing this dream. Be the first audience to see the film and offer feedback to the filmmaker following the sneak preview. The Gospel Bus Singing Gospel. Preaching Salvation. Chasing Glory.