Tom E. Brown Movies

When a struggling writer, HIV positive for 20+ years, accidentally deposits a $100 birthday check, he is dropped from his health plan for earning too much. In this new era of sort-of universal care, can he take on a helpless bureaucracy or come up with $3000 a month to buy meds on his own?

The ennui of a filmmaker, trapped between aspiration and reality, frames Lana Jing’s quirky, sarcastic, and cinematic-joke filled quarter-life crisis. At her lecture hall job, where aging white men wax on, self-involved, Lana accidentally frames her friend and co-worker when she destroys the...

The tale of an old man and the clown doll he brings to life. Told like an old-fashioned educational slide show.

A short, screwy, sometimes haunting mock experimental film, "Rubber Gloves" is Tom E. Brown's twisted take on the social, physical, and mental consequences of living with AIDS.

In the not-too-distant future, a marionette copes with the never-ending pandemic by actively participating in the circle of life.

A peculiar man goes to great lengths to get closure.

This short film was inspried by the work of B-movie director Ed Wood (Plan 9 From Outer Space, Glen or Glenda). It's the story of an 'average gay male's' panic-stricken run through the city streets after learning that he is HIV-positive. It's also a comedy. Really. Shot in just two days with a...