Christopher Messina

Short social directed, written, edited, and shot by John Paul Lopez-Ali

A woman is confronted by a stranger, who believes she’s been edited out of their story.

Short film written and directed by John Paul Lopez

Una camionera dura entrena a su mejor amiga femenina para competir en el Campeonato Nacional de Lucha Libre de Brazo Femenino.

A nameless young woman recounts a peculiar dream, set in a mysterious fictional city and populated by her real-world friends and acquaintances, in Bingham Bryant’s vivid, precisely conceived exploration into the uncanny logic and banal strangeness of our subconscious wanderings.

Caterina was born in South America but lives in New York. Her willingness to make close emotional connections to others is as much of a burden as it is a gift.

Mara y Jo son mejores amigas. Mara es confiable y Jo está preocupada; se conocieron cuando tenían 14 años. Ninguna de sus vidas es estable, sus trabajos son precarios y sus citas no llegan a ningún lado, escribir es algo que se hace de forma paralela, como tantas veces en Brooklyn. En medio de los eventos cotidianos y la charla, la única constante es su amistad, o, más bien, su dinámica: sonará el teléfono de Mara y Jo necesitará su ayuda, Mara dejará todo por ella, pero los pensamientos de Jo ya estarán en otra parte. vez que ella llega. La trama salta hacia adelante con delicadeza y se apoya en otra manifestación del mismo patrón cada vez, aunque los canales de Jo se profundizan y el resentimiento de Mara crece. El tiempo pasa y hay nuevos trabajos, nuevos novios, drogas, lágrimas y nuevos comienzos, un embarazo y más tarde una pequeña niña, todo lo cual tira constantemente del vínculo de Jo y Mara.

When Teonna is unexpectedly suspended from school, she encounters a girl from her past who takes her on an adventure through the city.

In the first year of Trump’s Presidency, Daryle Lamont Jenkins, an Antifa activist, combats the rise of the Alt-Right movement, while Richard Spencer, an Alt-Right leader, fights to gain ground, culminating in a tragic showdown in Charlottesville.

Después de que el robo chapucero de un banco acabe con su hermano pequeño en prisión, Constantine Nikas se embarca en una odisea a través del mundo subterráneo de la ciudad en un intento, tan desesperado como peligroso, por conseguir el dinero de la fianza para poder sacar a su hermano de la cárcel.

Uncompromising millennial radicals from the United States and the United Kingdom attack the system through dangerous technological means, which evolves into a high-stakes game with world authorities in the midst of a dramatically changing political landscape.

Two young Argentines, brought together by chance, wander the streets of New York City, increasingly lost in a maze of currency exchange, translation problems, religious vocation and nocturnal flirtation.

Betting, boxing, and boozing: this is the weird, true story of the time Norman Mailer confronted James Toback to argue about the difference between bourbon and scotch, setting off a years-long rivalry that climaxed in a stare-down during a tense Jets vs. Browns game and a couple well-placed stomach punches. In this short, Toback recounts the tale of his of his encounters with one of America's all-time great writers.

The story of a man that earned his place as an innovator, motivator and legend in skateboarding that now creates inspiration and opportunity for a new generation. Cole's progression from humble neighborhood beginnings to the world of elite street skateboarding is revealed through recently discovered archival footage, presenting a skater that went on to achieve the highest amount of skate contest wins, a list of defining video parts, being twice selected as Thrasher magazine's Skater of the Year, back-to-back X-Games gold medals, and becoming the 2013 Street League Super Crown World Champion

De las calles de Nueva York fue de donde los hermanos Safdie sacaron, literalmente, a Arielle Holmes, una heroinómana sin techo de 19 años que protagoniza esta ficción basada en sus propios diarios (en el film se hace llamar Harley). El frenesí de su día a día –ciclo imparable de apaños: conseguir dónde dormir, qué comer y cómo obtener el chute de rigor– entrecruzado con la obsesiva relación de Harley con el indiferente y también yonqui Ilya (Caleb Landry Jones).

On Oct. 17, 1989, at 5:04 p.m. PT, soon after Al Michaels and Tim McCarver started the ABC telecast for Game 3 of the World Series between the San Francisco Giants and the Oakland Athletics, the ground began to shake beneath Candlestick Park. Even before that moment, this had promised to be a memorable matchup: the first in 33 years between teams from the same metropolitan area, a battle featuring larger-than-life characters and equally colorful fan bases. But after the 6.9 Loma Prieta earthquake rolled through, bringing death and destruction, the Bay Area pulled together, and baseball took a backseat.

For the Plasma begins in a remote house on the coast of Maine, where a young woman named Helen has found work as a forest-fire lookout responsible for monitoring the nearby woodland. While analyzing CCTV footage of the surrounding forest, she discovers she can reconfigure her perception to predict shifts in global financial markets. But when her inquisitive and demanding friend Charlie arrives at the house, Helen finds herself challenged and unsettled by her new colleague, and the two girls’ relationship begins to unravel. From this cryptic premise grows a lo-fi mind-bender of intimate scale and startling relevance that flirts with sci-fi and horror conventions, even as it subverts them. To the strains of an electronic score, For the Plasma juxtaposes pastoral imagery with surveillance technology, every shade and shadow captured in gorgeous 16mm.

Between surrealism, unusual characters, art and magic tricks, "Swim Little Fish Swim" is a dreamlike journey from childhood to adulthood.