Current Films

The newest films offered by Altadena Films.

	TRAVELLERS Director: Kris McManus Cast: Shane Sweeney, Tom Geoffrey, Alex Edwards, Celia Muir, Dean Jagger, Charley Boorman Written and directed by Kris McManus, and produced by Brian Levine, the film stars Charley Boorman (Long Way Round), and Dean Jagger (The Killing Truth). The story centers around four thirty-something guys who set out on their motorcycles, clocking up miles in an attempt to outrun their age and their middle-class lifestyles. After setting up camp and reminiscing over their wasted youth, the guys discover an ominous looking caravan parked nearby. Within minutes, an idiotic prank turns into kidnapping, frightening brutality and a race for survival. This not only poses a number of moral dilemmas but makes us question who the bad guys really are. View Trailer
	THE REEDS Director: Nick Cohen Genre: Supernatural Thriller Running Time: 84 min Cast: Anna Brewster, Geoff Bell, Scarlett Johnson, Danny Caltagrione, Emma Catherwood, Will Mellor, OT Fagbenle A boating party gets lost in the ancient waterways of the Norfolk Broads and finds itself victim of a terrifying secret hidden in The Reeds. View Trailer
	OFFSPRING Director: Andrew van den Houten Genre: Horror Cast: Art Hindle, Pollyanna McIntosh, Tommy Nelson, Spencer List The second collaboration between Andrew van den Houten and best-selling novelist, Jack Ketchum, Offspring centers on a primitive, cave-dwelling tribe of predatory savages which were thought to have been killed off by the local sheriff 10 years earlier. Somehow the clan survived and continues to terrorize the coast of Dead River. View Trailer
	A NECESSARY DEATH Director: Daniel Stamm Genre: Docu-Drama Running Time: 101 min Cast: G.J. Echternkamp, Valerie Hurt, Michael Traynor Gilbert, a film student, puts an ad on the internet: “Documentary Filmmaker looking for suicidal individual to follow from first preparations to final act.” To his surprise more than a dozen people apply. He settles on Matt, 24 years old, who is suffering from an incurable brain tumor and is determined to end his life before the agonizing pain that awaits him. View Trailer
	CITY RATS Director: Steve M. Kelly Genre: Black Comedy Running Time: 96 min Cast: Danny Dyer, Tamer Hassan, Myanna Burring, Susan Lynch, James Lance, Ray Panthaki Jim is throwing watermelons off his office roof, testing the effect for a possible suicide. But then there is Sammy on an adjacent roof about to jump herself. They meet, delay their departure and set off searching for other ways out than down. View Trailer
	CELIA THE QUEEN Directors: Joe Cardona, Mario de Varona Genre: Documentary Running Time: 84 min Cast: Celia Cruz, Andy Garcia, Gloria Estefan, Quincy Jones Celia The Queen is a touching documentary about the life and legacy of a stellar performer who brought the sound of salsa to the whole world. View Trailer