The Annihilation of Fish

A funny touching story of two aging delusional eccentrics who fight together to overcome loneliness and rediscover a sense of purpose.

Starring Lynn Redgrave, James Earl Jones and Margot Kidder, the film tells the humorous, heartfelt struggle that binds the characters and reveals a deeper understanding beneath their troubled veneers.

Charles Burnett directs. His previous work includes "The Wedding," one of television's most highly rated movies.

Starring Meryl Streep, Liu Ye, Aidan Quinn and Blair Brown

Dark Matter explores the mysterious and powerful forces unleashed when a young Chinese immigrant strives to make his mark in a culture that is at once seductive and impenetrable.

The Chinese students who came to America in the 1980s and early 1990s were the cream of the crop.  One of them, named Lu Gang, went on a shooting spree at Iowa University in 1991.  The American media reduced this incident to the boilerplate story of a social misfit driven off the deep end by competitive pressures.  Dark Matter explores the forces that gave rise to such violent behavior.  

The film is based upon two premises: there is no villain, and the murderer is not insane.  It depicts both Liu Xing and his American mentors well-rounded characters with the best intentions.  The tragedy lies in their failure to connect, despite all their intelligence and good will. 

Chen Shi-Zheng directs.  Among Mr. Chen’s other recent directing projects were Monteverdi’s Vespers with Handel & Hayden Society in Boston; Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman for the Spoleto Festival USA; Night Banquet, a chamber opera by Guo Wenjing co-commissioned by the Festival d’Automne à Paris, Kunstenfestival des Arts in Brussels, Hebbel-Theater in Berlin, and the Ensemble Modern in Frankfurt, at the Lincoln Center Festival in summer 2003; and a documentary film Cultural Warriors of The Revolution for TV France 3.

The Defector