Martial arts means honestly expressing yourself…empty[ing] your mind. You have to train, you have to keep your reflexes so that when you want it, it’s there. When you want to move, you’re moving, and when you move, you’re determined to move.

Picture a young married couple in bed, laughing. It’s late. They lose interest in sex and agree it’s time for sleep. The doorbell rings. The husband gets up to see who’s disturbing them. It’s a bearded long lost friend, just back from Mexico. It’s the stranger at the door routine, but with a twist.

David Russo has always kept almond milk in his refrigerator. He says if he didn’t make films he would be a dental hygienist. And he thinks Walt Whitman is the greatest artist since Shakespeare. One can’t be sure of the influence that almond milk has had on his work, but office hygiene and Walt Whitman figure in Russo’s first feature film, “The Immaculate Conception of Little Dizzle,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in January 2009.

German born composer, inventor, sound sculptor Trimpin has been described as one of the most talented and undervalued artists in the nation. * Trimpin, who uses only his last name, has been the recipient of a 1996 Guggenheim fellowship and a 1997 MacArthur Genius grant, so it is surprising that there has been no commercial recording of his music. Enter San Francisco based filmmaker, Peter Esmonde, who decided that Trimpin would be a good subject for a feature length documentary.

The Internet promises a new world of distribution possibilities, and anyone can succeed. This is a presumption that is usually false. Before the Internet, selling a film was practically impossible without a distributor, because distributors controlled the market.