Gary GETS It!

It's lunchtime. You're hungry. Applebees is down the street, but you head over to Tom's diner, the last non-chain restaurant in town.

Tom's Diner decor is pure '80's and his soup du jour won't win a Michelin. But that's not why you came. You're here for the realzzz ... not cheeseburgers from the freezer.   You like to see who you're giving your ten bucks to!

A & A feel the same way about our films as our food!

Independent films are the farmers' market of the movie industry, an Alamo against force-fed studio schlock. Like that beeswax bottler you traded with last Saturday, concepts like creative control and artistic expression matter to the unconventional and resourceful people who make them.

People like Gary Lundgren, director of three of our favorite indie films set in the Rogue Valley and northern CA. If you're new to Gary's work ...

... Start with "Calvin Marshall." We fell in love with and rooted hard for the characters in this coming-of-age dramedy ...

... Next, walk down the "Redwood Highway" with a feisty Shirley Knight and Tom Skerrit (as you've never seen him before) ...

... And don't leave without having a midlife crisis in "Phoenix, Oregon"

Need more? Gary gives us the behind the scenes of how he made "Calvin Marshall." The man does not quit!