Rick Schmidt Trailers
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Rick Schmidt has been creating films since the seventies and "Sticky Wicket" is his 26th feature. His films have been screened in film festivals around the world, including Sundance's Dramatic Competition (Grand Jury Prize nomination), Slamdance, Rotterdam, Berlin International, New Directors/New Films, the Museum of Modern Art (NY), and has received critical praise from top film critics. Schmidt is also the author of "Feature Filmmaking at Used Car Prices" which is considered "The Bible" of fledgling filmmakers and has been credited with influencing filmmakers Kevin Smith, Vin Diesel, Tom DiCillo and others. His "Extreme DV" (Penguin Books, 2004) is for the digital filmmaker with an improv story. Since 1995 his "Feature "Workshops" have allowed dozens of aspiring filmmakers to make their first feature film, and their "Chetzemoka's Curse" has been certified Dogme #10 by internationally acclaimed Dogme 95 filmmakers Lars Von Trier and Thomas Vinterberg. In addition, Schmidt's first fiction work, a historical novel entitled "Black President," was released in the UK by Picnic Publishing, 2008.
Most Popular Rick Schmidt Trailers
Total trailers found: 24
01 January 1999
CRASH MY FUNERAL is a surreal comedy about a scriptwriter's block. In an attempt to pull his movie back on track he employs drastic measures; trying out impossible dialogue on a pizza delivery man, wandering around the neighborhood to scare up new characters and scenes, hoping for inspiration from every pretty girl that passes his way.
06 November 2007
14 stories on people of all walks of life
17 March 1975
A MAN, A WOMAN, AND A KILLER is the story of a small-time gangster (Dick Richardson) writing his journal in a Mendocino, California, farmhouse, as he awaits a hit man who is coming to kill him.
01 January 2001
Chetzemoka's Curse is about a young, twenty-something woman, Maya (Maya Berthoud), who is haunted by the memory of her first love and her subsequent betrayal.
20 January 1989
"MORGAN’S CAKE is the story of a young man (Morgan Schmidt-Feng) about to turn 18, and all the problems that are set to befall him.
23 April 2005
MIRAGE is about a old man, Jefe, who has a cult-like hold on his household of wayward, homeless new-age women, whoever Mike, his 20 year old henchman, can pick up at local bars and cafés in Santa Fe, NM and bring back to the adobe.
06 November 1996
a romance between identical twins
24 March 2006
A group of men are in search of the meaning to life but get caught in a web spun by Santa Flakey therapist Deirdre.
05 November 2012
When a corporate movie chain invades Brunswick, Maine, tries to put the tiny Eveningstar Cinema (100 seats) out of business, they are confronted by a secret and fervent, mallet-wielding Women-Only Croquet Club, which protests them at every turn.
01 January 2010
The old west is certainly dead, but Colorado pack burro racers don't know it yet. Everett Winfield - played by five-time world champion burro racer Curtis Imrie - runs and breeds his own stock.
02 July 2002
story about obsessions & letting go
04 September 2012
TEARS OF BANKERS follows the mortgage meltdown of Mr. Barry Norman's B&B, owned and operated by himself and his wife Brittany (Brittany Hannah) in the small town of Rome, Georgia.
01 January 2010
In 2012 WHITE STORK ENTERPRISES insures that baby-hungrey couples will bear 'perfect' offsprings for a mere $100,000.
01 January 2004
THE HIGDEN MAN is a story about two small-town grifters trying to convince Heber Springs, Arkansas landowners to sell their lakefront property, running the story that the local dam will soon raise the water level and flood surrounding property.
28 September 1999
Thrown out of his crash pad after traveling the West Coast, a young man, David, hits the streets without money or direction.
24 April 1982
Two cabbies search San Francisco's Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their $4000.
01 January 1977
When a San Francisco librarian decided to produce a filmed remake of the Jerome Kern, Oscar Hammerstein musical Show Boat, a large number of actors and aspiring performers auditioned.
02 November 1996
BLUES FOR THE AVATAR is a comedy about two oddball characters, a man Cheyenne, and a woman, Mary Jane, caught in the circumstances of being unwanted guests in other people's lives.
01 January 1998
A Type-A woman, Maya, hitchhikes her way through Death Valley after a fatal car crash. She is frustrated while waiting for her car to be repaired, she talks to the town's many residents (mostly childless women and a roaming ghost named Robbie).
01 January 1983
Emerald Cities, completing the trilogy, is a story about a young woman who runs off from her Death Valley home to seek her fortune.
01 January 1991
A single mother (Jody Esther) forms a bond beyond death with her young daughter in a coastal Washington town.
02 April 2004
A new-age drifter Brother Wiley comes to town to start a religion called Sol-Luna. Because he can walk the walk he recruits a make-shift disciple in Brother Wayne through the disciples encounters with townspeople we see stories of pain, triumph, and redemption and discover that we are "All our own Messiahs"!
01 January 1998
Barry's about to make a few changes in his life...
07 November 1998
LONELINESS IS SOUL features two young women, Meeka and Jessica who rent an Oakland apartment where an itinerate musician occasionally crashes.
