Tommy Thompson

Acting on an tip about bizarre goings-on in Gateway, Minn., three wannabe filmmakers (Todd Hanson, Carrie Sizemore and Tommy Thompson) set off for the quiet farming town to make a documentary about a backwoods cabin once owned by a notorious killer. When their venture leads them to the site of some satanic rituals, the amateur moviemakers begin to sense that they may have become the unwitting subjects of their film

An experimental biography of the director's parents.

Nick Bonetti is a cop from New York who accidentally shot a twelve-year-old girl. His department felt that it would be best that he leave New York until all the excitement dies down. So he is sent to California, and far as he is concerned, it's like being sent to another planet, and as far as the locals are concerned, he is an outsider. He is teamed with a dog named Tequila, who is not exactly Rin tin tin. But they try to work as best as they can. (imdb)