Idoru
Based on the novel by William Gibson
Screenplay by Alex Steyermark
Based on the novel by New York Times best-selling science fiction writer, William Gibson (Neuromancer, Mona Lisa Overdrive, Johnny Mnemonic) -- IDORU is set in a not-too-distant future world of celebrity, transnational media conglomerates, fan blogs, rock music and nanotechnology.
Colin Laney -- investigative journalism’s ace pattern recognition specialist -– is being framed for a murder he did not commit. He gets out of LA by taking a job in Tokyo for a mysterious organization determined to uncover the reasons why Rez, the world’s biggest rock star, wants to suddenly marry the beautiful Japanese celebrity hologram, Rei Toei, the Idoru. As Laney tries to unravel the mystery, he is sucked into a world of black market technology, nefarious real estate dealings, and corrupt media manipulators. When Laney himself meetsThe Idoru, he sees how she could break a man’s heart. Traveling through the Netside world, Laney discovers that all is not what it seems, and that Rez is, in fact, motivated by an entirely new kind of love -- and a desire to create a better world with The Idoru within the complex structures of the Net.
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Reagan Youth
Writer/Director Alex Steyermark
Based on the startling, true story of the seminal New York punk band, Reagan Youth, the film is a humorous and touching tale of surviving the “trickle-down” Reagan years as a teenager.
Lead singer Dave Insurgent teams up with cohort and lead guitarist, Paul Cripple, and together they take their band from the East Village clubs at the heart of the 80's New York punk music scene to center stage in the movement known as "Rock Against Racism." On television, the President
preaches divisiveness and paranoia, hypes a supposed threat of Sandinistas and Communists, denounces the moral inferiority of welfare mothers, and trumpets his own supporters, the "Reagan Regiments." In New York City, 8-year old suburban kids with pink Mohawks slam dance at the CBGB hardcore matinee, rich trust fund kids deal heroin from their fancy Upper Eastside apartments, and a lonely suburban serial killer trawls Times Square stripclubs for victims. Meanwhile, Nancy Reagan counsels "just say no." Set against the backdrop of the burgeoning punk music scene, Reagan Youth is the American Grafitti for the punk generation.