Movies: Struggling artist

A comic and melancholic take on the struggling artist, shot on 35mm....

Let's Make a Movie is the story of Cassie Thompson (Played by Hallie York), a college dropout and ex-film student who is tired of being disrespected and downtrodden, has decided that she's had enough. In a subconscious effort to turn her life around,...

A promising artist and a singer fall in love in college and get married against their families' wishes. The singer soon begins performing to support her husband and becomes nationally renowned. On the other hand, the artist fails to earn a livelihood...

A man and a woman, who have never met, are forced by pecuniary circumstances to share the same basement apartment in shifts....

For all intents and purposes, 2015 was seemingly a banner year for singer/songwriter Bobby Choy (aka Big Phony). His melodic and quiet songs had garnered him a following as he performs at SXSW while also starring in his first feature film. However, r...

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A documentary film about cult director José María Zabalza. How he made pictures with very little money and was granted little recognition....

Long after his premature death, the impact of Paul Sharits lingers on. The prominent iconoclast and innovator provoked with fast-flickering, pulsating, colourful mosaics. The many interviews and testimonies are also a portrait of a generation of lead...

A street painter meets a woman and asks to paint her. Two years later, the two are now a couple living together but struggle to get by. When the woman finds two abandoned kittens, she sets out to find them a new home....

When Jay runs into her Broadway-star-ex on the subway home after a catering gig, she's thrust into a knot of heartache, envy, and the challenge of feeling like an artist when it's not being rewarded by capitalism....

An art student faces an art block while deadlines are getting closer. Through her frustration, she's going to dive into the psychological issues that threaten her work....

Shifting market trends force the hand of a career artist into adopting a new style....

Julian has agreed to help Henry make his first film--but, on the day of shooting, Julian shows up having taken four tabs of LSD. Across the streets of Toronto, the two friends battle for control of the frame and struggle towards the meanings of art a...