Echelon Studios: The Finest In Independent Filmmaking

Whatever Makes You Happy (2010) 120 min  -   Drama / Romance Exploring the all too common trappings of dissatisfaction and infidelity in the relationships of urban twenty somethings, "Whatever Makes You Happy" tells the story of Anna and Alex, two fundamentally different people. Anna is a practical and bookish grad student. She lives a comfortable, yet [...]

  Drama      (2010)     100 minutes ~ Color A soldier, paralyzed with PTSD, encounters the now-grown child of parents he killed (or perhaps not)  What follows?  Martyrdom. Torture. Torment. Revenge. Castigation. Catharsis. Guilt. Atonement. And maybe, ultimately, Redemption. Director:  Brian Alessandro Writer:  Brian Alessandro Stars:  Lavrenti Lopes, Adam M. Griffith and Nicholas Wilder http://www.maryeamedia.com/videoembeds/afghanhound.html https://www.facebook.com/afghanhoundafeaturefilm http://afghanhound2010.blogspot.com/ [...]

El Dorado (2010)  TV Mini-Series  -  180 min  -  Action | Adventure | Fantasy When the clues to an ancient Inca prophecy fall into the hands of archeologist Jack Wilder (Shane West), he embarks on a life long journey to find the legendary city of gold, El Dorado, hidden deep in the harsh landscapes of [...]

  Jack Hunter and the Lost Treasure of Ugarit (2008) TV Mini-Series  -  282 min  -  Adventure   Jack Hunter realizes the pharaoh's tomb being empty except for a Roman coin means the treasure was looted to Rome but later probably transferred the the new, Byzantine capital, Constantinople. There the NSA reunites him with Nadia and Tariq, mainly as cover, [...]

Thriller (2004) 76 minutes ~ Color ~ Italian (English Subtitles) It's the 2nd of November in Italy, "All Souls Day", when an old woman finds the corpse of young, Father Salvatore inside the church. He was young, but very sick, and the coroner says he died due to heart failure. But the young, Inspector Santi, [...]

Drama (2005) 87 minutes ~ Black & White At the time when Motion Picture Studios controlled most of Hollywood’s elite, trouble arises when a successful writer and his aging wife attempt to conceive a child and are inadvertently introduced to a young, dangerous loner looking for fame himself. Extenuating circumstances put each against the other, [...]

Documentary / Family (2008) 55 minutes (USA) ~ Color In the 1990's, street skateboarding was on the rise, it even overshadowed the once dominant type of skateboarding called "vert" – as the preferred style. As street skating was quickly progressing, so was the small town Wasilla Alaska. By some statistics during this time frame, Wasilla [...]

Action Horror (2005) 70 minutes (Argentina) ~ Color Extreme urban violence reigns in Argentina. Senator Beccar Varela rises as the only way to stop violence with his "zero tolerance" politic. People doesn't suspect that Beccar is the head of the nazi gang that causes the violence. When members of the gang torture and rape a [...]