DAVID SCHMOELLER's Please Kill Mr. Kinski is an account of this director's experience working with the irascible but ingenious actor Klaus Kinski. After several days of fussing and starting fist-fights with the crew, the Italian producer of Schmoeller's film arranged to have Kinski killed-for the insurance money.

Directed by ANDREW JEFFREY WRIGHT and CLAIRE E. ROJAS, The Manipulators "set out to manipulate the images the media uses to manipulate us. Watch the vengeful fun as whiteout and marker transform ads and fashion spreads!"-A.J. Wright and C.E. Rojas

Obessesed With Jews is the true account of accountant Neil Keller, who since 1991 has amassed a remarkable collection of over 7,000 trading cards, photographs, matchbook covers, pins and autographs of prominent Jewish people. Directed by JEFF KRULIK (producer and director of hilarious underground classic Heavy Metal Parking Lot), Keller shows the viewer his collection, telling how he methodically catalogs the accomplishments documenting the genealogy of every famous Jew on Earth. I Created Lancelot Link, also by the same director, takes a trip into one of the weirder chapters in TV history: a surreal sitcom featuring chimps on skates, skis, and even rocking out in psychedelic band. Take a look at the not-quite-deranged masterminds behind this odd television gem.

Embryonic is Cleveland-gone-international filmmaker ROBERT C. BANKS JR.'s expressionistic and powerful display of women at the cusp of the millenium, focusing on fertility. Also showing will be Goldfish & Sunflowers, the final installment in Banks' series of these intimate and abstracted portraits.

In DAVID WILSON's Magic City, the director goes to Moberly, Missouri-known as the Magic City-in search of long-lost friends, only to encounter the weirdness of small-town subculture. Spanning skateboarding to heavy metal to crystal meth, Wilson contrasts beautiful scenes of a dying downtown with jarringly real interviews of virgins, cowboys, punks and outsiders thriving in rural America.

The Penny Marshall Project, by GREG PAK, is a satirical adventure in which Marshall, Francis Ford Coppolla and Akira Kurosawa enter the woods behind Marshall's Long Island home in a desperate attempt to capture the magic of "scrappy young filmmaking."

TIM VIERLING's The Warhaul tells the tale of Marilyn Monroe, victim of a failing marriage and her own lack of self-image, fighting 40s-50s portrait photographer Raoul Gradvohl, one of the first artists to actively airbrush and manipulate the female form in his prints.

NATHAN POMMER's Monkey Vs. Robot, based on the farcical comic strip of the same name, relates the age-old battle of nature against technology in this animated allegory.

Set entirely in the prehistoric Permian Era, JIM TRAINOR's animated The Moschops tells the tale of these tender but tough creatures, their sagas, sorrows, and meditations upon their own existence.

By turns cynical and playful, JEFF ECONOMY and DARREN HACKER's ..An Incredible Simulation is a trip into the strange world of tribute bands. Sure to be a highlight of this year's 20,000 Leagues, viewers will marvel at the time and energy that rabid fans sink into replicating bands such as Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Molly Hatchet, Neil Diamond, ABBA, Gary Numan, and Guided By Voices.

Dirty Girls is MICHAEL LUCID's chronicle of turf wars waged at his former high school, between clean-cut snobs, and cynical, unwashed self-styled riot grrls, fighting hard to keep grunge alive.

Sharony! by JENNET THOMAS is the tale of two young girls who dig up a microscopic woman from their back yard. After sheltering her, incubating her in their mouths, locking her in a dollhouse full of pornographic materials, she grows to life-size. Thereupon they take her out….to a disco.

JESSE SCHMAL presents Sub! a "trans-euro paean to Eastern European kiddie
cartoonery."

In an admittedly strange turn of cinematic events, Miami Vice actor Philip Michael Thomas is the star of KENT LAMBERT's experimental Whack, taken from the 1978 masterpiece Death Drug.

The Lost Bundefjord Expedition by MARLENE JAMES and MATT HOLM is the tale of three surviving members of a pan-Scandinavian expedition across the merciless expanses of frozen Lake Winnipeg while staving off the effects of icy madness. A truly Canadian film.

PAUL CHAN's Now Let Us Praise American Leftists represents over sixty leftists in the history of American politics with different types of mustaches, all created using FACE, a computer application used by North American law enforcement agencies to create composite pictures of criminals and suspects for wanted posters.

Elvis Meets the Beatles by JOHN MICHAEL MCCARTHY. Things get real gone when the Fab Four visit Graceland. Based on the actual August 27th, 1965 meeting, it's all facts according to what someone else says is true! Our heroes meet, insult each other, get high, fight, jam, and compare pills and memories of Germany.

The Big Night, the story of a young man's first time going horribly awry, is the latest
installation of an urban legends trilogy by fresh meat Akron University grad ROB LUCAS.

This year's 20,000 Leagues Under the Film Industry also include MARCEL DEJURE's Wig Rodeo- a dying woman's struggle to survive in a world of industrial tyranny and sabotage-and the Cleveland premiere of MATTHEW T's Pennies for Beer, a film following the time-honored tradition of turning useless copper into sweet, sweet beer. Realism so fine you can smell the hops.