(Photo: Jo Jo Whilden/Courtesy of Cold Fusion Media )

13. Nepotism works! Robert Redford’s Gotham-based daughter Amy Redford directs The Guitar.

(Photo: Courtesy of Two Lane Pictures )

14. Indie Spirit nominee? Paul Giamatti and Billy Crudup invent a sci-fi rocket belt in Paul Schneider’s Pretty Bird.

(Photo: Courtesy of Journeyman Pictures )

15. Awards bait: Half Nelson’s directors, Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden, return with Sugar, a drama about a Dominican baseball prospect.

(Photo: Courtesy of Peace Arch Entertainment Group)

16. The Producers 2? In The Deal, co-written by Atlantic Theater cronies Steven Schachter and William H. Macy, a craven movie producer casts LL Cool J as a Jewish action star.

(Photo: Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)

17. Fetish watch: In Quid Pro Quo, Vera Farmiga seduces a paraplegic New Yorker.

(Photo: Courtesy of Filmax Group )

18. Acquisition target: Woody Harrelson and Brooklyn’s Emily Mortimer play tourists on a bad trip in Transsiberian.

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