Money Game Part 3

When his aging mother’s health declines due to Parkinson’s, a devoted son grapples with the challenges of becoming her caregiver.

Toots.

Renee loses herself in a controlling relationship and the abuse she suffers gets worse until she is utterly trapped.

Homemaker

What do we lose in order to fit in? The Ocean Is Closed on Mondays is a short film exploring what is lost through assimilation while reflecting on the challenges that come with immigrating to a new country. Specifically focusing on the Latine Community in NYC, the script follows a narrative developed by researching and gathering personal experiences from a broad spectrum of individuals prompted with questions such as ‘What are situations and places in your life where you completely feel like you belong?’. The feelings and insights extracted from the research were then elaborated and processed into a poem written in collaboration with Elisabet Velasquez. Scanning the rhythm of the film, the poem touches upon the loss of heritage, identity, and situations that test one&#39;s feeling of belonging and it invites the viewer to take part in the introspective process, urging the audience to interrogate their own existence within a community, city, and country that’s often not their birthplace.

The Ocean Is Closed on Mondays

In a rollercoaster display of family dynamics, siblings Maria and Eddie confront a college-bound teen who unknowingly triggered a chain reaction of events in this heartwarming tale of family, love, and overreactions.  After a morning of failed communication with their mother, Maria and Eddie rush to her house, fearing the worst. Thankfully they discover their mother alive, but upset and overly dramatic as she puts on a show about feeling obsolete. Confused by her statement, the siblings realize that something, or someone, must have triggered their mother’s feelings.   This leads them to Maria’s house where they confront the clueless culprit behind the day’s events, Maria’s college-bound son Jonathan, in a story that gently reminds us that sometimes even the smallest of gestures carry the weightiest of love.

Don't Bring Empanadas

On the anniversary of her daughter’s death, Ronnie is commemorating the day with a surprising act -- and we’re along for the ride.

Ladybug

A day in the life of a small town music shop in Northern California.

The Music Store

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