When a pregnant woman is bequeathed a home from an estranged aunt, she and her girlfriend leave the city behind to begin new chapter. But when a karmic debt threatens the life of their unborn child, they soon discover their place in the cursed history of the town.
In the feature film "collective:unconscious," five independent filmmakers join forces to adapt each other's dreams for the screen. In this segment, director Lauren Wolkstein adapts Frances Bodomo's dream.
An upstate New York public school district is torn apart by corrupt politicians, racial divides, and escalating violence. After a prominent town leader is kidnapped, can a romantic connection between a young Hasidic man and a Hispanic woman bring this town together?
Brothers, a mother, songs from the seventies, Xanax, and a woman named Vicki. Stay Awake follows two teenage brothers through their weekly routine of finding their wandering mother and taking her to the hospital to detox from a prescription drug addiction. When it becomes clear that their mom may...
After having her identity stolen, a woman, and her son's pregnant girlfriend, bond together on a surreal journey as they attempt to track down the perpetrators.
Christian, a poor teen in the 1980's suburbia, is employed as a gardener by his new neighbor, Geena, a trashy but beautiful woman in her mid twenties. Working for her, he suddenly discovers a purpose for life: allowing his growing love for Geena to show through his care for her garden. When Gena...
Riding Shotgun, a short film directed by Jack Fessenden, is about two teenage boys, Atticus and Max, who spend their days bickering over the little things, while all around them the big thing is closing in...
Oliver has just come out of the closet and is struggling with the feeling that he has to change who he is to fit in with other gays, when his gay uncle Jeffrey takes him to dinner and tries to teach him about the 'gay lifestyle'.
