Michael A. Goorjian
Nacimiento : 1971-02-04, Oakland, California, USA
Historia
Michael Andranik Goorjian (born February 4, 1971) is an Armenian American actor, filmmaker, and writer. Goorjian won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or Special for his role as David Goodson in the television film David's Mother (1994). He is also known for his role as Justin, Neve Campbell’s love interest on the Golden Globe-winning series Party of Five (1994–2000), as well as Heroin Bob in the film SLC Punk! (1998) and its sequel, Punk's Dead (2016). As a director, Goorjian achieved recognition for his first major independent film, Illusion (2004), which he wrote, directed and starred in alongside Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas.
Bartender
Simin is an Iranian woman on a journey to discover what it means to be a free American. She works for the Census Bureau which, in an effort to control its citizens, has begun a program to record their dreams. Unaware of this devious plot, Simin is torn between her compassion for those whose dreams she is recording and a truth she must find within.
As a young boy, Charlie escaped the Armenian Genocide bound for the United States. His family was not so lucky. Our story begins in 1947, as Charlie repatriates back to Armenia only to begreeted by the harsh reality of Soviet Communism. Almost immediately Charlie is arrested and sentenced to prison. Just as he appears to be succumbing to the terror of his situation, he discovers that the prison wall outside his cell window had been damaged during a recent earthquake. And through a hole he can see into a nearby apartment building... The Armenian couple who live in the apartment, Tigran and Ruzan, become Charlie’s only connection to the outside world, living vicariously through their private life, sharing meals with them, laughing, crying, singing and dancing with them, all the while discovering the Armenian culture he never knew.
Director
As a young boy, Charlie escaped the Armenian Genocide bound for the United States. His family was not so lucky. Our story begins in 1947, as Charlie repatriates back to Armenia only to begreeted by the harsh reality of Soviet Communism. Almost immediately Charlie is arrested and sentenced to prison. Just as he appears to be succumbing to the terror of his situation, he discovers that the prison wall outside his cell window had been damaged during a recent earthquake. And through a hole he can see into a nearby apartment building... The Armenian couple who live in the apartment, Tigran and Ruzan, become Charlie’s only connection to the outside world, living vicariously through their private life, sharing meals with them, laughing, crying, singing and dancing with them, all the while discovering the Armenian culture he never knew.
Guy
Uninspired and in her forties, celebrated photographer, Lana Freeman, searches for the elusive visual "perfect moment." When a young waitress saves her life, Lana believes she's found the perfect muse. But as she becomes more and more obsessed with the young woman Lana pulls away from her husband, her work, and the people who love her, not realizing that the muse could destroy her life.
Dan Horwitz
Tras dieciséis años de mentiras, Bernie Madoff está harto. A lo largo de una década y media, ha estafado y embaucado a todos los inversores potenciales que se le han puesto a tiro, erigiendo una gigantesca estafa piramidal que, al estallar, deja tras de sí decenas de víctimas. Entre ellas, la mujer de Bernie, Ruth, y sus dos hijos, Andrew y Mark. Adaptación del libro de Diana Henriques sobre el caso real del fraude de Bernard Madoff.
Bob
Punk's Dead, the sequel to 1999 cult hit SLC Punk, is a punk romp through the Utah hinterlands. Ross, Penny and Crash, young outsiders from different tribes, embark on a road trip to a huge punk show. Ross, 19, is the love child of Trish and Heroin Bob, who died before Ross was born. During their odyssey, and with the help of a healthy dose of drugs, alcohol and punk music, Ross shreds his darkly Gothic outlook and embraces life. His mother Trish, who raised Ross alone in her steam punk shop, discovers that he is in a crisis. She recruits his 'uncles,' Bob's old SLC gang, to help find him. When all collide at the concert, they are forced to deal with their unresolved relationships with Bob.
Mr. Lewis
A love story set in the shadow of the shipyards of San Francisco. A young woman living with her much adored uncle Henry and domineering, abusive father, meets a penniless illegal immigrant, whose love gives her the insight and courage to finally break free and live her own life.
Director
Michael Joorgian es el director de la película El Cambio (con título original inglés The Shift), cuyo protagonista principal es el Dr. Wayne Dyer y en la cual se relata de una forma muy humana sus ideas sobre el sentido de la vida, las relaciones entre las personas y la siempre presente posibilidad de que todo puede adquirir un significado. Es una propuesta para volver a descubrir nuestro verdadero yo, nuestro propósito y la vida con sentido que es nuestra verdadera vocación.
Director
In this film, you meet the woman who wakes up every day and proclaims her love for everyone and everything in her path, the woman who popularized “affirmations,” the woman who shakes hands with presidents, dignitaries, celebrities, and who always has an affectionate hug for fans who run up to her at a public appearance or Hay House event to thank her for “saving my life.” And when she embraces them, she’ll insist, “It wasn’t me. It was you.”
Thomas
Una camarera se enfrenta a todas las equivocaciones que ha cometido en su corta vida y finalmente termina enfrentando la mayor equivocación de todas: su peligroso ex novio, que está decidido a recuperar su amor o morir en el intento.
Writer
A once-powerful, but now ailing movie director nears the end of his life. As he awaits death, he slips into a "dream" and is shown three "snippets" of the movie of his son's life. At first suspicious, then curious, and ultimately captivated, he watches his son's growth from mid-teens to mid-thirties as the son pursues his life-long love, Isabelle. The two constants through these snippets are his pursuit of Isabelle and the imagined voice of his father, telling him that he is worthless and unwanted. It is not until the story reaches its conclusion, that the old man discovers the surprising truth about his son and himself.
Director
A once-powerful, but now ailing movie director nears the end of his life. As he awaits death, he slips into a "dream" and is shown three "snippets" of the movie of his son's life. At first suspicious, then curious, and ultimately captivated, he watches his son's growth from mid-teens to mid-thirties as the son pursues his life-long love, Isabelle. The two constants through these snippets are his pursuit of Isabelle and the imagined voice of his father, telling him that he is worthless and unwanted. It is not until the story reaches its conclusion, that the old man discovers the surprising truth about his son and himself.
Christopher
A once-powerful, but now ailing movie director nears the end of his life. As he awaits death, he slips into a "dream" and is shown three "snippets" of the movie of his son's life. At first suspicious, then curious, and ultimately captivated, he watches his son's growth from mid-teens to mid-thirties as the son pursues his life-long love, Isabelle. The two constants through these snippets are his pursuit of Isabelle and the imagined voice of his father, telling him that he is worthless and unwanted. It is not until the story reaches its conclusion, that the old man discovers the surprising truth about his son and himself.
Rome / Romie
Two men (Pras, Michael Goorjian) in drag purposely get arrested in order to recover their winning lottery-ticket from an inmate at a women's prison.
Screenplay
Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (Howard Hesseman) who cheats death, only to go on tormenting the living. When a medical experiment leaves the grouch hovering between life and death (and able to describe the world beyond), things get tricky for his daughter (Jessica Capshaw) and her beau (Neil Patrick Harris, of "Doogie Howser, M.D." fame), who can't get their hands on his estate.
Writer
Peter and Chris, two young American friends in their late 20s, go from South Dakota to California on a scooter, and as they travel across the American landscape they see their country through different eyes, ranging from Peter's cynically nihilistic point of view, to Chris' high expectations and romantic notions of the United States.
Peter
Peter and Chris, two young American friends in their late 20s, go from South Dakota to California on a scooter, and as they travel across the American landscape they see their country through different eyes, ranging from Peter's cynically nihilistic point of view, to Chris' high expectations and romantic notions of the United States.
Sam
When Sam and his friend fall for the same woman, their friendship is put at risk.
Henry
The agent for the Devil takes the soul of a high school sophomore in exchange for a date with the most popular girl on campus.
Sid
Dr. Peter Hamilton
Un experimento científico en el crecimiento celular rápido va mal cuando un ayudante de laboratorio roba el suero desarrollado y lo inyecta a su novia, embarazada. El resultado es un niño que crece hasta la edad adulta y morirá en cuestión de días, si no encuentra la cura.
Producer
Jude and Joy escape to her Parisian flat for a private detox. A dark comedy of word games, sex, fantasy and pop tarts.
Jude
Jude and Joy escape to her Parisian flat for a private detox. A dark comedy of word games, sex, fantasy and pop tarts.
Bob
Esta película refleja la vida de un joven punk llamado Stevo, interpretado por Matthew Lillard, de ideología anarquista (aunque entendida como caos, sin relación alguna con la cultura anarco-punk actual), a mediados de la década de 1980.
Kenny
Las lluvias torrenciales han convertido la localidad de Huntingburg en un caos. Totalmente sumergida bajo el agua, la ciudad es evacuada por el sheriff. Lo que este no sabe, es que no lejos de allí, una banda de atracadores está planeando asaltar el furgón blindado que transporta la totalidad de los fondos locales y que también ha quedado atrapado por las aguas. A partir de ese momento se desarrolla una caza humana, en la que están implicados los atracadores, los conductores del furgón y una joven, cuya intención es salvar de la catástrofe la histórica Iglesia del lugar.
Danny Farthing
Ray McMichael is a part time coffee shop employee and part time filmmaker who teams up with film festival darling Weston Craig to make the greatest independent film ever. Through their struggles, they encounter agents, starlets, lesbians, porn stars, extraterrestrials and an enigmatic auteur named Dagmar Geech.
College Boy 1
Ben es un alcohólico cuya vida se está yendo al traste. Decide irse a Las Vegas, la ciudad donde los bares nunca cierran, para beber hasta morir. Allí conoce a Sera, una prostituta. Se aceptan, se enamoran, se separan y se reencuentran. Una maravillosa historia sobre dos personas que aprenden a aceptarse el uno al otro, sobre cómo en medio de la oscuridad puede surgir una pequeña llama de esperanza en sus vidas.
David Goodson
Sally Goodson has been raising her autistic son David alone since her husband left many years ago. Now a social worker discovers that Sally has been dodging 'The System' to keep her son with her, instead of putting him in an institution. Each feels they know what's best for David. But their opinions are not the same. Sally's developing relationship with John Nils is caught in the middle.
Scott Chapman
In rural Comfort, Texas, the strict protestant Horizon Bible church community holds its annual, pretty strictly supervised summer camp, with mandatory prayer sessions, for fraternizing teens from all over the States. The day before their departure, storm weather is announced, the busses even ride early to keep ahead, but the wind makes a river rise too fast: the busses are caught, everybody must run on foot. As TV reporters see from their helicopter, the rising water is too fast for one bus after choosing the wrong way, children and staff must climb in trees but can't cling on very long.
Steven
Año 1939. Daniel McCormick (Mel Gibson), piloto de pruebas, es un hombre al que todo le va bien en la vida. Todo cambia una mañana en la que su novia, Helen, tiene un desgraciado accidente. Desolado, se ofrece voluntario para un experimento secreto: El cuerpo de Daniel queda congelado en una cápsula experimental. En 1992, más de cincuenta años después, dos niños descubren la cápsula y descongelan el cuerpo, llevando a Daniel a casa de uno de ellos, que vive con su madre Claire (Jamie Lee Curtis).
Skittery
Nueva York, finales del siglo XIX. Los chicos vendedores de periódicos se pusieron en huelga, extendiendo su protesta por las calles en contra de un par de diarios sensacionalistas. Musical de la Walt Disney, a medio camino entre West Side Story y Oliver.
Director
Washed up actor Don Knotts shows up on the back lot of Universal Studios in Hollywood, California in hopes of landing a role in the new Disney movie, Newsies. Unfortunately director Kenny Ortega quickly dismisses Mr. Knotts and has him thrown off the lot. Mr. Knotts is quite upset by the turn of events, so decides to go on a killing spree, believing that if he can't have a role in the movie no one can. He knocks off one newsie after the next, each in a different and unique way.