Hold Up centers on Marcus, a young teen accompanying his older brother on a drug deal. Eager to prove he's cool enough to hang, Marcus bets he can rob the liquor store they sit parked in front of in exchange for an invite to an exclusive party later that night. Once inside the store, Marcus discovers his classmate, Jenny, not only works there, but witnessed and filmed his attempt at shoplifting. Marcus tries to escape, only to run headfirst into a real robbery, which quickly devolves into a series of absurd events that will force Marcus to grow up in more ways than he could ever imagine.

Hold Up

Desperate to marry the love of his life, an Undertaker’s apprentice digs up the grave of a mysteriously murdered bride in an attempt to rob her corpse of its ring.

Till Death Do Us Part

A young woman’s traumatic past resurfaces when a mysterious box arrives on her doorstep, setting forth a horrifying reality.

Never Let You Go

An allegorical 1930s-set coming-of-age fable about mothers, daughters & the beasts they hunt. Starring HEREDITARY's Milly Shapiro and WALKING DEAD's Pollyanna McIntosh. 
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Set in the countryside of depression-plagued 1930s America, our tale unfolds in an alternate past where adolescent girls are expected to fulfill a longstanding rite in which they hunt and slay a mythical beast of their mother’s choosing, and will not be accepted by society as a “proper woman” until they have fulfilled this sacred rite-of-passage hunt.
Our narrative follows precocious adolescent Em and her mother, Selma, who holds extremely dogmatic views about the particulars of this rite. What should be a day of mother/daughter bonding quickly devolves into chaos as Em begins to question the senseless violence of this arcane ritual, causing a schism between herself and Selma that threatens to turn violent.
In tone, Em & Selma plays as something like “Ingmar Bergman takes a stroll through John Steinbeck’s Jurassic Park”, exploring timeless themes of intergenerational conflict, past traumas, and the difficult road to adulthood we all must undergo - as filtered through a bespoke, metaphorical fairy tale lens.

Em & Selma Go Griffin Hunting

An insecure man’s compulsion to know his partner's secrets leads him on an underworld descent where he makes contact with something non-human.

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