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CANINE INSTINCT
Director: Nicholas Goodman
Producer: Nicholas Goodman
Genre: Documentary
He’s not afraid to jump into the middle of a dog fight to bring order from chaos. He runs through brambles, streams, and over rock-faces training his dogs in Search & Rescue techniques, because as Kyle Warren himself will tell you: “If I can teach my dogs something that can save lives, I can’t think of a better way to spend my time.”
Join Kyle as he takes you into his world of dogs and discover why some people call him the Dog Man of Ulster County, NY, in this home-spun portrait of an American original.
WINNER: "Best Documentary" Burbank International Film Festival, Silver Lei Award - Honolulu Film Festival, Silver Palm Award - Mexico International Film Festival, IndieFest Award of Excellence, DIY Film Festival Best Feature Documentary.
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Macon Film Festival, Edindocs, Red Rock Film Market, Las Vegas Film Festival, Alabama Film Festival, Buffalo Niagara Film Festival, Louisville Film Festival
STIGMATA .44
Director: Nicholas Goodman
Producers: Karen Weggenmann Gainer, Lisa Grezo
Screenwriter: Nicholas Goodman
Genre: Drama
"An eerie short about a kid who is obsessed playing with a make-believe gun when he cocks and points his finger, finds the digit is really loaded." -- Michael Fleming, Variety
STIGMATA .44 had its television premiere on KQED, San Francisco, with subsequent airings on WTTW, Chicago and KPBS, San Diego. The topical film about children and guns has screened to enthusiastic audiences worldwide at the Violence Prevention Coalition, the Edinburgh, East Hampton, Taos Talking Pictures, Breckenridge and Florida film festivals, and won the Audience Award at the Uppsala International Short Film Festival in Sweden.
SWING BLADE
Director: Nicholas Goodman
Producers: Chris Cox, Lisa Grezo, Nicholas Goodman
Genre: Comedy
Lovable mental patient Karl Childers from "Sling Blade" tries to get a date on the martini-soaked "Swingers" LA club scene.
SWING BLADE, a short parody of the hit 90's indie films Swingers and Sling Blade, became a cult hit on the Hollywood underground garnering smash reviews from the Los Angeles Times, Austin Chronicle and People Magazine, and airing on Bravo, Encore Movies, and Film Four (Britain). The short was released in theaters by Rhino Films as a warm up to the parody feature Plump Fiction and it can be found on Miramax Films Swingers Collectors Edition DVD and BluRay.