Mike Ott
2021Kid Icarus
Carl Bird McLaughlin, Mike Ott
Cory Zacharia, Atsuko Okatsuka
18-year-old Leigh lives in a trailer park on the outskirts of Los Angeles, attends community college, has no real friends and works part time at Home Depot. With an obsession for Steven Spielberg and enrolled in a film production class, he sets out to make his cinematic debut. He hopes the film will be his ticket out of his mundane life and into a world of popularity, women and success. And he just may be on his way, if he doesn't self-destruct first.
Kid Icarus
Analog Days
Mike Ott
Newhall, California sits about thirty miles north of Los Angeles, not quite the middle of nowhere, but not exactly a real city either. It's somewhere in between. A place where the youth work at Video Depot, go to community college, struggle with jocks and townies, and all do their best to understand politics, their careers, their love life and self-image. It's here that Jordan, Molly, Tammy, and Lloyd are about to understand that in life you don't always get what you want. Sometimes you're stuck never leaving home, never fitting in, or never really knowing who your friends are. This is their transition toward growing up and realizing that real life doesn't always end up like a movie.
Analog Days
Lancaster, CA
Mike Ott
Cory Zacharia, John Brotherton
A conversation about love and life in the California desert. Another collaboration between Ott and one-of-a-kind actor Cory Zacharia (Littlerock), the two forge a slice of character and an idiosyncratic portrait of loneliness.
Lancaster, CA
Lake Los Angeles
Mike Ott
Corina Calderon, Roberto 'Sanz' Sanchez
After crossing into the U.S. with no family to speak of, young Cecilia finds herself in the charge of Francisco, a lonely Cuban immigrant long separated from his own family. Francisco operates a way station for border crossers on the outskirts of Lake Los Angeles, a surreal, desiccated lakebed in the California desert. While he copes with the alienation of living alone in a foreign land and the impossibility of realizing the American dream, Cecilia aimlessly wanders the dusty landscape, accompanied only by her fantastical imagination and distant memories of motherly love.
Lake Los Angeles
California Dreams
Mike Ott
Mark Borchardt, Carol Kraft
Five unique individuals in pursuit of a big life change. Through auditions set up in small towns across Southern California, the film shows genuine characters with big Hollywood aspirations who, for various reasons, have never had the opportunity to pursue their dreams.
California Dreams
Pearblossom Hwy
Mike Ott
Atsuko Okatsuka, Cory Zacharia
Friends Cory and Anna are drifting through life, struggling to find their place. Cory is sick of life in the desert and wants to be on a reality show so he can prove to his brother that he isn't a screw-up. Anna is in the country illegally, selling sex to save enough money to take her citizenship test. When Cory's brother visits and Anna's dying grandmother takes a turn for the worst, the two are forced to examine the direction of their lives
Pearblossom Hwy
