A DISTURBANCE IN THE HIGH DESERT is a dramatic short-film that transports us to 1920s Eastern Oregon in the
shadow of Mt. Hood. As economic hardship spreads, hateful forces and laws threaten the safety of those deemed
"inferior" or "defective". Mare and Gemma are lovers who find each other while living a fragile existence in this rugged,
unforgiving west. We meet them after Gemma endures a nighttime assault by an unexpected perpetrator on the
outskirts of their ranch, a tenuous safe haven. The certainty of right and wrong blurs. Familial ties are tested.
A true New Zealand western story, the infamous Maungatapu Murders of 1866 by the Burgess-Kelly Gang, filmed on the track where it happened, in the hills behind Nelson.
A film about outlaws that breaks the rules of storytelling. A secretive man arrives at the airport—he has a job interview with the leader of a criminal syndicate. He decides to protect the gangster against the threat of a mysterious woman and her child, who want him dead. Violence is inevitable, but it manifests in enigmatic ways.
Kate Vernon returns to "Mizzoura," after attending a fashionable seminary and looks down on her former suitor, sheriff Jim Radburn, who, unknown to Kate, paid for her education. When a highwayman robs the train, Sam Fowler, an express messenger, is arrested as being an accomplice. After Kate gently refuses Jim's marriage proposal, she plans to elope with handsome Robert Travers from St. Louis, whom she met at school.
When cowboy Nick McCredie notices in a second-hand book an inscription to "Emily, the prettiest girl in school," he writes to her and learns that she is a lonely Eastern farm girl living with her grandmother. Instead of sending his own picture to her, Nick encloses a photo of his handsome friend Pen Walton.
After discovering an old book, Alex becomes drawn into the harrowing stories of cowboys Latt and Stylz. As he reads about their treasure hunt and daring adventures, Alex finds inspiration in their courage and friendship to use in his own life and help him find the strength to overcome his own obstacles.
Crooked Bluff Hardcastle is appointed by the court to take care of the business affairs of pretty young Helen Saunders' ranch, which is about to go out of business, but Hardcastle is secretly planning to swindle her out of the ranch. He is thwarted by cowboy Jim Donovan and his friend, banker George Masters, who buy Helen's ranch at auction. Angered, Hardecastle sends his hired thugs to get rid of Donovan and Masters so he can get his hands on the ranch.
Spence and April participate in their high school’s chapter of Senior Assassin, but when April starts to take the game a little too seriously, Spence second-guesses her motives, their friends, and their relationship.
The world of the supernatural meets the wild west when a small group of solders enter Apache county to find their missing comrade. Quickly, they discover something is terribly wrong as the very land itself appears to have turned against them. As they face demons of both man and myth, it's going to take all they have to survive.