I Wanna Be

RIPHOUSE 151: Could've Been's & Wanna Be's is a retrospective documentary feature film which showcases the local music scene of Rockland County, NY. The film is focused around a band (RIPHOUSE) from Congers, a hamlet within the county. Based just thirty minutes out of NYC the band had everything going for them, except themselves. Beginning as a local high school cover band they quickly began writing original material that inspired a community of their peers. On the cusp of breaking through to the national circuit their founder and front man veered down a life changing path which his band members could not follow. Filled with truth, fame, success, drugs, and death, Could've Been's & Wanna Be's is the story of the house that ripped and the family that died. Narrated by the band members themselves and including interviews with 30+ people including Rob Dukes of Exodus and Don La Greca of ESPN Radio.

She will be loved, she will be seen ... just like Marilyn Monroe. Fragments of memories from the year Marilyn died and everything was sweet and sad.

Go for a ride on a huge old steam locomotive.

Paulo, a loser who recently got dumped by his girlfriend, decides to take his own life but since he is a loser not even taking his own life he can do

When Sky, an emo wannabe artist visits the studio of a charismatic artist to get her first tattoo, she is forced to confront a shared cultural secret that awakens the burgeoning force inside of her.

Until the death of their mother, siblings Luke (20) and Maggie (13) were inseparable. But because neither of them knows how to deal with their grief, the distance between them grows even greater.

A young Japanese man named Kota Tanaka (Osamu Mukai) works to raise money and then build an elementary school in Cambodia.

Spanning 1967 to 1971, this collection of live performances from German television captures the raw talent of legendary rock 'n' rollers the Beach Boys, the Hollies, Traffic, Canned Heat, the Kinks, the Spencer Davis Group and many others. Songs include "I Am Free" by the Who, "Proud Mary" by Ike and Tina Turner, "So You Wanna Be a Rock 'n' Roll Star" by the Byrds, "With a Little Help from My Friends" by Joe Cocker and "Strange Brew" by Cream.

A ground-breaking feature-length fly-on-the-wall chronicle of Southend Band The Kursaal Flyers, as they tried to break in to the big time, this film is a stark depiction of three days on the road in Scotland and the north-east.

This is a documentary about being in love, falling out of love and the fragility of human bonds. It is very intimate, like a diary or a conversation overheard by chance.

After a boy and a girl meet at a party, strange desires begin to appear.

When a bank robber is about to be caught by a detective, a woman who appears in the alley is taken hostage. The robber's wife is in a hospital due to a hit and run accident and has to leave the hospital because she has no money, and the detective also needs money because her wife is in the hospital. The hostage tells him to release himself and split the money between the two of them, but the detective who cannot keep the hostage alive, the only witness, has the robber kill her hostage, and the detective kills the robber. The money disappears and the case is closed.

Two filmmakers have to make a short film for a non-smoking campaign again, but they have run out of ideas.

1998 short film by Rita Hui

To miss the last bus home from work can be fatal. A businessman encounters leering hookers, a crazy cafe owner, and a gang of sadomasochistic nurses. And then things get really crazy. The anonymous main character floats around in an insane post-war Japan that defies definition, and tries in vain to get home.