The Piano Tuner is based on an acclaimed novel written by DANIEL MASON set in 1800’s Colonial Burma. It’s in the vein of THE ENGLISH PATIENT, ATONEMENT & OUT OF AFRICA set in the Far East.

In 1886, a shy, middle aged Piano Tuner named Edgar Drake receives a commission from the British War Office, to travel to the remote jungles of North East Burma and deliver a rare piano belonging to an eccentric army surgeon who has proven mysteriously indispensible to the imperial design.

From this irresistible beginning, The Piano Tuner launches its protagonist into a world of seductive loveliness and nightmarish intrigue. And as he follows Drake’s journey, Mason dazzles readers with his erudition, moves them with his vibrantly rendered characters, and enmeshes them in the unbreakable spell of his storytelling.

An Adaptation of Massimo Carlotto’s Respiro Corto, is a ‘gangster film goes global’, as new generation of criminals exploit the vast illegal markets of smuggling (to avoid tariffs), human trafficking (to provide cheap labor), money laundering (to repatriate profits), waste disposal (to eliminate toxic by products), narcotics (to cope with the frenzy of a 24-hour global market) in an increasingly globalized economy.

In this dislocated world, where developed economies in the North outsource industrial production to the South, products appear on stores shelves without a trace of their manufacture. The “independenti” -- exiles, outcasts, former mafia members -- represent a relatively new criminal phenomenon eager to exploit the vastness of these illegal markets.

While they don’t compete directly with the traditional crime organizations, they do represent a thorn in the side for the latter. Often, they become pawns in power struggles playing out within the overlapping spheres of crime, business and politics.

As always, emotions interfere with business, as men and women from diverse cultures find themselves confronting love, hatred, ambition and above all self-interest, because the “independenti” have nothing in common with each other except their hunger for money.

To be Directed By Henry Miller.

Erotomania: A Romance, combines an unlikely mix of form, style, and characters, resulting in a unique take on modern romance.

We watch these sex maniacs as they struggle to get to know each other, live together, learn how to prepare food, battle their addiction to television, and fill their weekends with traditional weekend activities, all the while having brutal sex in strange places.

They go from radical to a shade of normal, retaining their intensity, while revealing the contradictions of our culture and accepted attitudes towards love. The narrator goes into long philosophical and psychological asides amidst the sex and relationship. Throughout, there are references to philosophy, literature, film, modern art, and politics. It is this blend of cold, improbable sex, straight-faced humor, and banal domesticity that makes Erotomania entertaining and meaningful.