The End of Love
Directed by Mark Webber, The End of Love first premiered at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize for Best Drama. Since then, Mark and Sven collaborated on two other feature films, The Ever After (Los Angeles International Film Festival) and Flesh and Blood (SXSW).
Synopsis:
When the mother of his infant son unexpectedly passes away, struggling actor Mark grapples with fatherhood and his inability to grow up. And when he sparks with a single mother, he learns how his choices have real-life consequences.
Effigy
Winner of the 2019 Cyprus International Film Festival, Effigy is currently in theaters nationwide and scheduled to come to over 500 screens in the U.S.. Sven won the CYIFF Award for Best Editing.
Synopsis:
1828 in the German port city of Bremen: Two very different women collide in an age that has no place for either of them. One strives for a career in law, at a time when women aren’t even admitted to universities. The other has lived life outside the law and may now have to pay the tab. One of them needs to get her head together – while the other would do anything not to lose hers.
Good Time Max
Written and directed by James Franco, Good Time Max opened the 6th Annual Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. It was picked up by IFC Films.
Synopsis:
Max (James Franco) boasts a genius level IQ, and his brother Adam (Matt Bell) is nearly as bright, but while Adam has the common sense and ambition to make something of his gifts, Max’s greatest talent seems to be getting into scrapes and disappointing those around him. Adam has a successful practice as a doctor in New York City, but when Max foolishly tries to swindle some well-connected drug dealers, he has to leave the Big Apple, and somehow persuades his brother to take him to California. On the West Coast, Adam is able to use his medical background to get a lucrative new job, and Max fast talks his way onto the staff of a computer firm. However, Max’s inability to stay on the straight and narrow and face his responsibilities quickly resurfaces, and when he starts using crystal meth.
The Ever After
Directed by Mark Webber, The Ever After premiered at the Los Angeles International’s Film Fest and stars Teresa Palmer, Rosario Dawson, and Oscar-winner Melissa Leo. The soundtrack for the film was composed by Moby.
Synopsis:
Ava and Thomas live–to outside eyes–the good life, complete with a child and a lovely home in Los Angeles, but something is lost. Ava has placed her acting career on hold to play the mother and good wife, while Thomas’ job as a fashion photographer puts him in dangerously tempting situations. When trauma strikes, they must confront their innermost vulnerabilities to recover their disintegrating marriage.
Flesh and Blood
Directed by Mark Webber, Flesh and Blood premiered at the 2017 SXSW International Film Festival in Austin, Texas. It was the third collaboration between Mark and Sven.
Synopsis:
Based on real life events & captured in a hyperrealistic style, Flesh & Blood straddles the line between narrative & documentary to lay bare the beautifully flawed nature of life. The central character, Mark, is played by director/actor Mark Webber & draws from elements of Mark’s actual life. The character of Guillermo (Mark’s younger brother who struggles with Asperger’s Syndrome in real life) is played by Mark Webber’s actual younger brother Guillermo & takes us on a true-to-life journey through the eyes of a misunderstood & bullied teenager. The character of Big G is played by Guillermo’s actual father who in reality & in the film is coming to grips with drug addiction, the abandonment of his son & imminent death from “Hep C”. Similarly the character of Cheri is played by Cheri Honkala, Mark’s real-life mother, anti-poverty activist & the Green Party’s nominee for vice-president in the 2012 U.S. presidential election. Her activism & choices in men are a constant source of conflict in her relationships with her children.