Tribeca All Access® 2006
Kulture Machine is a film production company designed to build upon the interdisciplinary approach to filmmaking that its partners were exposed to at Columbia University's School of the Arts Graduate Film Program. The partners, Dennis Lee, Joe Turner Lin, Milton Liu, Julie Anne Meerschwam, and Francisco Ordoñez, realized their unique ability to collaborate on film productions early on, and decided to unify their already similar visions of narrative and visual interests into an entity that could support them creatively. Breaking away from the usual ideas of staying within the confines of a particular discipline, whether it be writing, directing or producing, Kulture Machine embraces the necessity of true collaboration within the field as a way of generating better stories, better productions and ultimately better films.
An ambitious college senior and committed atheist starts to see things differently after he infiltrates a militant religious cult. But is it spiritual clarity or incipient mania?