The community website Craigslist.org has become one of the most popular sites on the Internet, boasting 10 million active users and 3 billion page views per month. "24 Hours on Craigslist" documents a random day-in-the-life on Craigslist.com in San Francisco, which has evolved into the world's largest community board since 1995.

On this day of August 4, 2003:

An Ethel Merman drag queen searches for the perfect backup band for her Led Zeppelin covers. A suburban professional woman assembles a diabetic cat support group. A couple seeks the perfect rabbi for their marriage. A would-be mother finds her ideal sperm donor. Doors for sale, one night stands, compulsive roommates, transsexual erotic services. The mundane and the sublime, the ridiculous and the profound, all come together to paint a portrait of a thriving, humanistic community in the midst of an ever-accelerating culture.

A mother of two returns to her home and children in Bolivia after 15 years of working in Israel to make a better life for her kids, only to find her family members have become strangers. "A Working Mom" is a story that demonstrates the extremes that individuals will go to in order to save their families -- sometimes saving and losing them in the same act.

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"Abel Raises Cain" is an unprecedented glimpse into the life and bizarre career of Alan Abel, the infamous underground media prankster. He has made a name for himself several times over with stunts that are just ridiculous enough to be believable, especially to a media that feeds on salacious, far-fetched stories.

In this loving portrait of an eccentric father, Alan's daughter, Jenny, tells her firsthand account of what it was like growing up with a prankster. "Abel Raises Cain" takes the audience on a roller coaster ride through the myriad of elaborate hoaxes and schemes that Abel pulled off over the years, all of which were designed to provoke and amuse...while at the same time, make people question everything that they see, hear and read.

Executive Produced by Steven Soderbergh (Ocean's Eleven, The Good German) and shot entirely against a green screen, "Able Edwards" is "Citizen Kane" in the 23rd century. A retro sci-fi story, "Able Edwards" is about the clone of a Walt Disneyesque entertainment mogul created to revive the glory days of his deceased predecessor's corporation. In the process of restoring reality entertainment to a synthetic, virtual world the clone realizes he has yet to live as his own man.

Set in Hawaii, ALL FOR MELISSA tells the story of a young man who obsesses for Hollywood's "It" actress, leading him on a quest to win her heart.  During the journey, he discovers he may already be in love with another girl, his best friend.

“BeatMakers”, documents the never ending hustle of up-and-coming as well as seasoned producers.

Filmed inside their home studios, these hungry musicians aspire to obtain more equipment, sell their hot tracks, and, of course, make a name for themselves in the competitive music industry.

The film follows a plethora of track masters in various stages of their careers including newcomer Justin “J Dot” Moyd, a 23 year-old college student who nears graduation, as he assembles his production center, works with aspiring recording artists and puts together his first professional demo package.

We also see a group of savvy producers, called 'Battery Five', combine their collective efforts, and discuss their trials and tribulations. We witness their relentless pursuit to create a "movement" and be recognized in such a tumultuous business.

The film provides a behind-the-scenes forum for composers to get a lot off their chests and discuss their unbridled passion for making music all with a steadfast belief that the 'next' track will be the one to take them to the ‘next’ level!

Brother Born Again is an intimate documentary about Julia Pimsleur’s attempt to reconnect with her only brother, Marc, a born again Christian who spent ten years living with his spiritual family on a remote island in Alaska. Julia, a bisexual Jewish New Yorker, travels to Alaska to try to understand why Marc dropped out of college and converted to Christianity. Alternately funny and poignant, the film explores family dynamics, as well as the definition of family itself.

A man who has failed in love and continually destroyed the lives of the people he loves most embarks on an emotional journey to discover where he went wrong.

After seeing another man's car parked in his driveway, Charlie becomes convinced that his wife is having an affair. Determined to discover the truth behind the stranger he has transformed into, he seeks out his ex-girlfriend and enters a disastrous confrontation with his best friend. As Charlie's journey sends him reeling through the streets, he sets out in search of a stranger in hopes of making some kind of emotional connection.

Selected for the 1982 Sundance Film Festival, "Citizen" follows a group of anonymous young people on an apparently random journey through a disjointed San Francisco cityscape. Along their travels they encounter a succession of madmen and eccentrics, portrayed by various West Coast performance artists, whose impassioned monologues and improvisations satirize the institutions of contemporary American society.

11 minutes of extras are also available: an in-depth interview with the film’s presenter Dr Erach Bharucha (see below) and a short documentary on the work of BVIEER

A man whose inability to deal with the losses of his past leads him into a desperate attempt to save a woman whose life is out of control.

ZACH SELWYN delivers a subtly powerful performance as Elliot. Those familiar with Zach’s comedic work on G4’s ATTACK OF THE SHOW will be impressed by his dramatic turn in Damage Done.

Co-starring Bonnie Warner as Andrea, the object of Elliot’s desperation, with Lydia Cornell (Too Close for Comfort), Joanne Baron, Christina Grace, Herb Bermann, Shang Forbes and Lucia Sullivan in featured roles.

Score by FORCE THEORY (Jesus Camp, Manda Bala) and songs by ZACHARIAH and the LOBOS RIDERS.

Dat Kho (Land of Sorrows), a 1970s foreign, English-subtitled film, starring the beloved Vietnamese iconic songwriter/poet/painter Trinh Cong Son (1939-2001) in what may be his only starring movie role, dramatizes the effect of the Vietnam War on a single South Vietnamese family, the inner conflict of decisions by each member of the family whether to remain in Vietnam or leave with the imminent fall of the city of Hue and eventual fall of Vietnam. 

It compresses three seminal events of the Vietnam war: (1) the Buddhist uprising in Hue during 1965; (2) the Tet Offensive in 1968; and (3) the 1972 "Summer of Fire".  It includes real footage of refugees fleeing the North Vietnamese' Easter Offensive of 1972.

With that real war footage serving as the backdrop, "Dat Kho" is a story of the love of family, homeland, and culture and language of Vietnam. It also is about the ethereal love of the ingenue daughter for her fiance, foiled by the antagonistic forces of the ever-present war.  It is thought-provoking, and at the same time it directly relates to present day conflicts such as the Gulf War and Iraq. It challenges the reasons for foreign involvement in essentially a civil war and questions the lessons learned or that should have been learned.

What would you do if you discovered that 13 people slated for execution had been found innocent? That was exactly the question that Illinois Governor George Ryan faced in his final days in office. Deadline is a compelling look insider America’s prisons, highlighting one man’s unlikely and historic actions against the system.

With astounding access to hearings, Death Row prisoners, exonerated men and Governor Ryan himself, Deadline, brings us directly into the emotional and legal storm surrounding Ryan’s impending decision. Viewers are pulled into the story as families exchange pleas for forgiveness or revenge; as an exonerated man in Florida tries to pull the pieces of his shattered life back together; and as a man reflects on his crime and the consequences. The filmmakers also shed light on the United States’ complicated relationship with the death penalty, using archival flashbacks to the landmark decisions and capital punishment policies implemented in the 1970’s that brought the U.S.—and Governor Ryan—to where they are today.