Brandishing her sharply honed cinematic sword, director Penny Lane strikes a cunning balance between cheeky, brazen entertainment and defiantly serious storytelling in this wickedly topical documentary that bares its horns to speak truth to power. Just a few years old, the Satanic Temple has risen from the depths to become one of the most controversial religious movements in American history. HAIL SATAN? bears witness as the temple evolves from a small-scale media stunt to an internationally recognized religion with hundreds of thousands of adherents while its leaders force us to consider the true meaning of the separation of church and state. Regardless of your own religious beliefs, Lane’s insightful and unexpectedly amusing documentary will challenge everything you might have assumed about Satanists. At its core, this formidable film is really about the things we all want: equality, freedom and love.

SEDONA FILM FESTIVAL AWARD WINNER! Best of the Fest (tie) & Best Documentary! The chronicle of one couple's leap-of-faith trial-and-error attempt to build a farm in harmony with nature, THE BIGGEST LITTLE FARM is an inspiring ode to uncompromising idealism and a graceful reminder of the magnificence and resilience of the natural world. Photographer John Chester and his culinary writer wife Molly, accompanied by their rescue dog Todd, abandoned their tiny Los Angeles apartment to pursue their dream. In the epic eight-year span of the movie, they battle drought and fire and ferocious winds, and with a beguiling cast of animals, including a star turn by a pregnant sow named Emily, this uplifting, stunningly shot chronicle of Apricot Lane Farms is a rousing demonstration of how to live in harmony with the Earth.

A jubilant and nostalgic look back at the music from Southern California's age of innocence, ECHO IN THE CANYON is an exuberant celebration of the bands who essentially invented folk rock and attracted a generation of recording artists to the L.A. scene. The songs from The Byrds, The Mamas & The Papas, Buffalo Springfield and The Beach Boys provide an entry point as Jakob Dylan takes a no-holds-barred journey to discover what life was like in Laurel Canyon during the 1960s. Uncovering never-before-heard personal details behind the bands and their songs and how that music continues to inspire today, Dylan's candid conversations with Brian Wilson, Ringo Starr, Michelle Phillips, Eric Clapton, Stephen Stills, David Crosby, Graham Nash, Roger McGuinn and Jackson Browne as well as some of the contemporary musicians they influenced such as Tom Petty (in his very last film interview), Beck, Fiona Apple, Cat Power, Regina Spektor and Norah Jones furnish a delight-filled, energetic glimpse into a time and place that changed music forever.

Adam Driver and Bill Murray lead an all-star cast in THE DEAD DON'T DIE, indie maven Jim Jarmusch’s (PATERSON, NIGHT ON EARTH) latest flick. Centerville is a sleepy, peaceful town in the middle of nowhere that finds itself battling a zombie horde after the dead start rising from their graves. Presiding over this quiet hamlet is police chief Cliff Robertson (Murray) and officers Ronald Peterson (Driver) and Minerva Morrison (Chloë Sevigny), who are thrown for a loop when their local diner is unexpectedly attacked. Armed with machetes and shotguns – and with the assistance of a strange, sword-wielding Scottish mortician (Tilda Swinton, naturally) – Centerville's small police force gets to work on vanquishing this reanimated pack of ghouls. With Steve Buscemi, Danny Glover, Caleb Landry Jones, Rosie Perez, RZA, Selena Gomez, Iggy Pop, Carol Kane and Tom Waits, this ferociously funny movie is a disarmingly intelligent riff on politics, parodies, and the futility of it all.

Smartly written by Mindy Kaling and snappily directed by Nisha Ganatra, this sly, sophisticated comedy about the times in which we live tackles white privilege, entitlement and a culture dangerously veering toward crassness and conservatism. Katherine Newbury (Emma Thompson) is a pioneer and legendary host on the late-night talk-show circuit. When her humor is challenged, she puts affirmative action on the to-do list, and hires her first and only female staff writer (Kaling). Thompson brings pathos and amusingly severe charm to the pantsuit-clad Katherine and Kaling easily charms her way into the hearts of viewers everywhere. LATE NIGHT is a fresh, unexpected, biting and crisp commentary on our country.