Director Steph Green’s heart-warming short film New Boy, which appears on Wholphin No. 6, has been nominated for a 2009 Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film. The film, adapted from a Roddy Doyle short story from McSweeney’s Issue 18, follows a young African refugee as he struggles to find his place on the first day in a new school in Dublin.

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Friends know we are huge fans of Randy Walker and Jennifer Shainin’s astounding feature film, Apart From That. The special edition DVD/CD soundtrack/photo book with special features, including auditions, a “making of” documentary, trailers, and deleted scenes from Apart From That is ON SALE, at 25% OFF, and you can buy it here.

The film is also available online for digital download (VOD) on Amazon and iTunes.

People are sloppy. They want to be liked by strangers and will go to great lengths to be accepted. In the character-driven narrative feature film, Apart From That, the little moments that define the everyday lives of a student beautician, an elderly exhibitionist, a Native American road worker, a Vietnamese banker and his adopted American son reveal the similarities between very different people.

For more information about the film and filmmakers, visit to the official site, Foreign American Pictures.