Movies: David Zellner

On the outskirts of Austin, 10-year-old Annie tears around on her BMX bike, hurls dough at cars, and smashes things up with her baseball bat. Her father, a goat-farmer-cum-demolition-derby driver, does little parenting. Annie has no friends her age, ...

A recently divorced man tries to find the one aspect of his marriage that still matters to him: his missing cat, Goliath....

Richard Linklater's SLACKER inspired a generation of American filmmakers by exploring the subculture of Austin, Texas in a loose narrative with a tapestry of quirky characters. Celebrating the 20th anniversary of that iconic movie, 24 of Austin's top...

A disgruntled veteran unable to adjust back into society justifies domestic terrorism by interpreting his actions with alien invasion....

Fact and fiction collide on the high seas....

In late 2015, "Bright Ideas" magazine and its publisher, the innovative crowdfunding and distribution platform Seed & Spark, commissioned directing duo the Zellner Bros. (KUMIKO, THE TREASURE HUNTER) to make a short piece in response to a Criteri...

While on their way to a mariachi recital, a devastating car crash forces a mother and her two sons to confront the truth about their past....

Sam (David Zellner) runs into Lacey (Stephanie Wilson) walking her dog in the park. She doesn’t seem too thrilled to see him. But he is really, really thrilled to see Choo-Choo. The dog used to be his and he is less-than-thrilled to learn that Lacey ...

Strangers in a strange land, Bulbovia’s dimmest explorers attempt to dutifully colonize a new world but soon find their buttoned-up shirts and rational thoughts melting away into beetle-eating, tree-molesting, wife-swapping chaos....

The story of an aspiring young Hollywood actor who, while hitchhiking to see his agent, is picked-up by a lecherous, cynical Cary Grant....

An unprecedented peek at the mysteries of nature....

In a world where moral corruption and prosperity go hand-in-hand, James is out of his element. He's unpopular, whiny and cranky, not to mention a second-rate street mime fond of belittling his audience. James longs for a life or reckless abandon, muc...

A despicable young man, at the end of his life, espouses his comically bleak and bitter world view to his only friend, his dog Foxy....

A take on the classic Abbott and Costello baseball routine....

A black comedy about an altruistic yet deranged preacher who heads deep into the Australian Outback in hopes of saving the soul of a man who has abandoned his faith....

A Big Brother mentor has some bad news for his young charge. His confession is no less poignant for being absurd....

A closeted homosexual phones a crisis line from inside his closet....