Hometown Heroes 2017

Drought

The summer after high school, Sam searches for a better life for herself and younger brother with Autism.

The MisEducation of Bindu

Thrust into American public school by her mother’s new marriage, a wide-eyed Indian teen teams up with a band geek to survive.

A Room Full of Nothing

In this Swiss Army Man meets Eternal Sunshine adventure an artistic couple's life takes a bizarre turn when they wake up alone in the world.

AUGGIE

Forced into early retirement, a man falls in love with his new augmented reality companion, driving away his wife and daughter.

Bring Me an Avocado

When a violent encounter leaves Robin in a coma, her family ventures to maintain normalcy for her children while managing their own grief.

D.I.Y.

A queer couple is determined to tie the knot their own way.

Epiphany

A young girl struggles to create a relationship with her father after the death of her aunt who raised her.

Lost Bayou

A struggling addict ventures out into the Louisiana swamp to discover that her estranged faith healer father is hiding a troubling secret.

Miles Underwater

13-year-old Miles is struggling to find where he belongs when an unusual event forces him to face his biggest fear and take a leap of faith.

Mini Lights

A group of skaters roams the haunted nooks of St. Petersburg Fl. where an unquenchable tragedy watches from the darkness waiting for a host.

Palace

The family-fractured lives of a stubborn mechanic, a retired widower, and a repressed college student intertwine at a bar in rural Indiana.

Test: A Classic American Story....On Steroids

A young bodybuilder living in Ohio defies his religious mother when he follows the county's best coach into a world of steroid abuse

The Atavist

A young woman travels to the past, but when the things she leaves alter history, she must get them back to save the future.

The Inner Edge

A NJ cop struggling with changes in her life, has to save a suicidal stranger to unlock what powers lie within her.

This Is Our Home

A struggling couple's weekend getaway goes awry when a child arrives in the middle of the night claiming he's their son.

"SURE-FIRE" - Development Funding Phase II

SURE-FIRE is a comedy about a NYC con man having a mid-life crisis who stumbles into becoming a movie producer to pay off gangsters.

A Stray Ember

The agoraphobic victim of a home invasion takes to the road in a motor home, but a figure from her past threatens her new found freedom.

ACID TEST (feature development)

The absurdly dramatic coming-of-age story of a teenage girl who launches a rebellion when she drops acid and goes home to her parents.

Bedsheet Man

A middle aged man looses his son to suicide only to find a strange way to cope with his grief. He becomes the superhero that his son always

Between Heaven and Hell

On 11/22/63, John F. Kennedy, CS Lewis and Aldous Huxley all died within moments of each other and meet in a place “somewhere beyond death”

Big Dog City

Set within Bay Area art/slacker culture, we follow two characters as they weave across a place and identity which doesn't fit them anymore.

Emma Was Here

A terminally-ill woman goes on a trip with friends before deciding whether she will go through with her choice of physician-assisted dying.

Fantastic Santa Monaco

A film about a group of performance artists who are looking for love, connection and significance in Los Angeles.

Give And Take

In this sincere comedy about parenting, a father who's lost custody of his rebellious daughter kidnaps her in a plan to save her future.

Gleahan and the Knaves of Industry

An opportunistic asshole joins the quest of a delusional man who thinks he’s in a fantasy world.

High

An unnerved young mother and a footloose ski bum unearth suppressed desires in a hazardous twist of encounters.

High Note

Just your everyday druggie, dramedy, indie musical filled to the brim with Germans, Jesus, banjos, bongos, and backstabbings.

I'll Be Around

Against the backdrop of a post-punk music festival, a handful of 30-somethings deal with a wide variety of social and philosophical issues

LION KILLER

Fighting Solves Everything

Little Evil Bookshop

When the world's most powerful occult leader visits a modest mystic bookshop, its owner must impress him at all costs.

Minneapolis (the movie)

A cocky news anchor team gets stuck "mentoring" an at-risk teen. Shenanigans and dastardly weather conditions ensue…

Nēar

"nēar" follows 17-year-old Julian upon his escape from the hospital on Christmas Eve, the day which is literally the last day of his life.

Parallel Chords

A young violinist struggles to break free from her pianist father to find her own voice.

Project Gaslight

New tenants harbor a secret that jeopardizes a young family as the pregnant wife descends into paranoia and delusion.

Stormie

An adopted Hispanic teenager looks for his birth family in an attempt to find his place of belonging.

The Blue Whale

In 1980's rural Oklahoma a teenage boy meets a girl from California who helps him break out of his shell and learn the truth of his heritage

The Cold Days of Summer

A boxer battles injury, criminals, and an authoritarian school board to save his scholarship and learn the true cost of the American dream

The Mile Ground

The contents of a strange safety deposit box send an opioid addict down a risky road that will lead to her redemption or final destruction

The Place in Between

What could possibly go wrong when a mom and her teenage daughter meet for the first time on a road trip across TX? . . . Everything.

The Way It Goes

Sometimes life just doesn't go as planned.

What Lies West

Two girls desperate to create their own adventure set out into the wilderness of California on a daring hike to the coast.

White Death

A construction worker tries to leave the family business to pursue his life long dream of making a documentary about great white sharks.

WILLIE, JAMALEY & THE CACACOON

Two misfits adventure out to prove the existence of a local mythological creature.

Worst.christmas.ever.

A dark comedy about a 15-year-old girl whose entire world falls apart after she discovers that she's pregnant on Christmas Eve.

Xerxes

While recovering at his estranged childhood home from cochlear implant surgery, Xerxes spirals down the rabbit hole and may never climb out.