"The Decathletes" follows the Academic Decathlon team at Granada Hills High School as they compete to win their sixth national championship. In order to win, the students must beat out thousands of other high schoolers from around the nation.
The film examines what it is about this team that makes them so good. More specifically, the film focuses on three students as they balance competition, college admissions, and family life.
A bi-racial black woman struggles on her journey to self-discovery while trying to live up to her father's expectations. Color Blind shows us the different perspectives of the word itself and how it influences someone's identity and judgement.
Two athletes have an accidental meeting on the bus in 1971 Japan, a meeting that changed the world forever. This meeting brought people together for more than 47 years.
Eight visceral minutes inside the head of a woman who has every reason to give up hope.
We follow Sara, from the young age of Eight. Her life as a child is traumatic and unstable. Eight years later, she is older and in high school. Her life isn't any easier... where yet again, another trauma is imposed on her. Eight years later... Sara is a woman that is fighting to figure out where her place is in life after failed relationships and still dealing with the previous traumas she's dealt with. Her hope is gone... what does the next eight years hold for her?
It's Friday night and Jenny Shaw is settling in for the evening. She witnesses an event that is taking place outside her window and convinced that a crime is taking place and calls 911.
Jenny gets a strong dose of reality when she realizes how wrong her assumption was.
Set against the backdrop of the 1950s entertainment industry, Paper Birds launches the audience into the turbulent intersection of the fading circus era and the rise of television. The film examines the desperation of entertainment performers to stay relevant in a changing landscape.
Hollywood TV starlet Virginia Day is out on her luck after being fired from her television show. Desperate to stay relevant in the public eye, she agrees to perform with the Champy Family Circus in hopes it will get her face back in the spotlight. With her career on the line, Virginia Day struggles to find her strength and identity in a foreign arena, all while attempting to make a catch on the flying trapeze 30 feet in the air.
When cut-throat, lifelong enemies become popular co-anchors at a small town news station: they are forced work together when they’d love nothing more than to tear each other apart.
In this episode of Just Jackie in LA, Jackie (a tax accountant) is stressed out by her clients during tax season. Her friends attempt to give her suggestions to cope without losing her temper or her liver to wine. Jackie can't believe that her friend thinks a meditation cd will actually work on her, but it does until the cd goes missing.
Along The Beds Edge Sitting tells the story of a star high school athlete who is challenged by his choice to start a family around an accidental child. The film examines love and obligation, family fractures, substance abuse, and the transition from youth into adulthood.
Starring: Nathin Butler (General Hospital), Jodi Moore Lewis (Criminal Minds), Nestor Serrano (Bad Boys), and Lily Berlina (Modern Family).
Why does a woman need to choose between a career and love?!
Dr. Tilly Masters is a theatre professor at Midwest Central University. Now she is stepping outside her comfort zone to start a new chapter as Provost of the university. Her husband and friends are affected because her new role changes the dynamics for everybody.
Can you be a friend and lover and still be the boss?
Featuring: DYLAN BAKER (Selma, Happiness, Damages, The Good Wife), MELISSA GILBERT (Little House on the Prairie , The Miracle Worker, One Smart Fellow), TIMOTHY BUSFIELD (Thirtysomething, Field of Dreams, The West Wing, HRIFF Award Winner for One Smart Fellow).
In preparation for her daughter's 10th birthday, a housewife confronts her own dreams and disappointments (and discovers that she's not alone) in a mini-musical set in suburban purgatory. The musical numbers drive the narrative which revolves around one woman reaching her breaking point and her commitment to turn her life around. It explores the feeling of losing identity through contorting to fit societal standards and expectations.
At it's heart, Pretty Pretty Prison is a film for everyone who has (or has been) a mother.
Set in late 18th century France, DeSade takes place just weeks before the French Revolution, dealing primarily with the sexual fetishes of The Marquis Du Fournier which are financed through a mysterious Benefactress; a high ranking Lady of the French Court.
Lies and secrets abound, fetishes are uncovered, and treachery lurks around every corner as each pursues their own endgame, and the true nature of mankind’s darkness is revealed.
In a world where having light skin is glorified, Ron finds out that, in Hollywood, being of mixed-race is not the advantage he once thought it was.
Featuring: Judy Kain (The Odd Couple), Carlin James (American Crime Story: Assassination of Gianni Versace), Christopher Chen (Criminal Minds), and Andrew Thacher (American Housewife).
Smokey, Rick, & Kiki are working at the neighborhood barbershop, when the owner, John D. Barber, goes on an extended vacation. He leaves the shop in the hands of the three young barbers and we see them each face unique challenges in the barbering business.
Smokey takes the opportunity to hatch a lucrative plan along with his sidekick Rico. Normal shop procedures are thrown out the window as things are about to get wild.
While driving, Riley listens to a revealing butt dial conversation of her foe friends talking trash about her. When she ultimately decides to crash the "girls" Sunday brunch, Riley subtlety deconstructs the facade of the friendships. Deciding to withhold her newfound information from the rest of the girls, Riley manipulates the situation to her advantage. The moment a secret's revealed between friends, an unexpected turn of events lead to an unimaginable catastrophe.
Every intention doesn't always play out the way you planned.
Frankie Flores, a feisty and fiercely independent single woman nearing forty, has recently learned from her doctor that, due to a long-standing infertility issue, she has an increasingly small window to conceive a child. Motherhood is suddenly a matter of now-or-never.
When the traditional fertility treatment routes are not a fit for her circumstances, Frankie attacks this challenge the only way she knows how - with pure, unadulterated grit.
Being able to see the future has made Maggie, a young psychic, cynical about her own life, especially when it comes to dating. However, her world gets turned upside down after she has a one night stand with someone who challenges her ideas around love, romance, and destiny.
Will she let him stick around long enough to figure out if he's her soul mate, or will she run away like she always does?
After years of struggling with self-confidence, Gary, is anxious to figure out what went wrong in his relationship with Ann. Seeing the opportunity to set things straight with Ann, and hang with old friends, he decides to visit his best friend John’s New Year’s Eve party. Desperately trying spark Ann’s interest without letting his friends embarrass him, only to instead receive devastating news.
Defeated and depressed Gary is determined to fix things, but ultimately learns that you don’t always get what you want, …sometimes you get something better.
When a disturbing package shows up in his mailbox by mistake, the angry loner Mitchell sets out to find and seek retribution against its intended recipient, setting him on a collision course with the man’s twenty-year-old daughter... as well as his own dark past.
