Te Wei, an artist famous for blending Chinese painting into animations, has produced countless award-winning animations in his career since 1950s. The present collection compiles 4 titles by him, all adapted from famous Chinese fairy tales or fables. Some of his works, such as A Tadpole Looking for Mom (1960) and Love for Mountain and Water (1988), have won awards locally and overseas, from the prestigious Hundred Flowers Awards in China to even the Cannes Film Festival. Te Wei's art demonstrates a very different aesthetics from Western animations, which are characterized by their refined lines and elaboration patterns. On the other hand, he sometimes borrows from famous Chinese painting in portraying his characters. His works, which are indeed animated classical Chinese paintings, will offer a refreshing experience for children and grown-ups alike.
A Zero Hour special, dramatically recounting the final sixty minutes of American Airlines Flight 11 - an hour, and a flight, that changes the world forever.
Two girls are driving to Daytona when their car breaks down. Rather than sit in an old broken down truck in the middle of nowhere while they wait for their friends to come pick them up, they decide to go with J (Violent J), a clown, who invites them to his bed and breakfast.
Bob Parr has given up his superhero days to log in time as an insurance adjuster and raise his three children with his formerly heroic wife in suburbia.
Robert (25) runs a very successful illegal business, the buying and selling of drugs. In the height of success he learns that his sister Janice (16) becomes hooked on Heroin.
Two young film authors, Angelo and Lillo, the former a screenwriter, the latter a director, try in every way to present their works to Mr Piras, a successful producer now converted to television production.
Producer Allison Tripp wakes up dazed and confused in an LAPD safe house. When Detective Mark Janus asks her about the dead bodies found in a Los Angeles warehouse she begins to remember.
Based on one of the most famous mysterious disappearances in the world, Richard John Bingham, the Seventh Earl of Lucan, was accused of the murder of 29-year-old nanny Sandra Rivett on 7 November 1974, at his family home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street, in London.
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