Motion picture plays -- 2011-2020

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"A film about a Cuban-American, queer, teen as she navigates a toxic relationship with her abusive mother, set amongst the pop-punk, emo scene of 2006." --Abstract.

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In Boston, a Chinese couple, an old policeman, and two teenagers' lives intersect with each other because of a wallet.

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"This is a story about human connection and how our childhood can shape our lives as adults. An adolescent boy who is traumatized both psychologically and physically is befriended one summer by an empathetic and eccentric adolescent girl. She inspires and empowers him in ways that he only fully realizes when he becomes an adult. Inspired by true events." --Abstract.

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"Offcuts: A 4-minute experimental film featuring underwater footage, exploring the topics of identity, fear and purpose." -- Summary "Knitting: This story follows a 7-year-old girl whose grandmother and mother struggle with caring for their aging grandfather." -- Summary "I'm [Not] Okay: Selena, a closeted teen with an abusive mother, struggles to come to terms with her identity during the most difficult period of her life." -- Summary

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"A film that covers the problems with relationships in the modern high tech era. The stand-up comedian covers a plethora of issues that men and women face while trying to co-exist in a relationship while also trying to maintain self-image and peer pressure. The stand-up routine is also intertwined with a session of girl talk during which women talk candidly with each other about difficulties in relationships." --Abstract.

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"Land of Flint is a crime drama with science fiction elements about a troubled FBI agent who struggles to solve a bizarre murder, hoping to quell her inner crisis and expose a technological threat in Mohawk territory." --Abstract.

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"A short narrative film captures the daily life of a three-generations of a Chinese family while the grandfather suffers through the late stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Through the eyes of a little girl, we see family members’ different emotional reactions to the old man’s irreversible dementia and how it affects the girl’s perception of death." --Abstract.

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"A thirteen-minute narrative film that centers on a mother and son pair at a local laundromat. The mother does laundry for her neighbor in exchange for extra money, but the son accidentally causes a color spill and dyes the neighbor’s laundry. Having witnessed his own mother’s breakdown for the first time in life, the boy learns and realizes his responsibility to the family." --Abstract.

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"Lost Roads is a twenty-two-minute fiction short film that depicts the memory of the last day between two friends, Iris and Noah. The film explores the feeling of being lost and stuck in a world that can only offer a bitter sense of freedom." --Abstract.

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"Milk & Honey is a fictional narrative short film. Focusing on a seven-year-old boy, it explores the fragmentation and separation of a family in a modern society. The film is a realist and poetic approach to personal memories, with the intention of presenting a sympathetic picture of a three-generation family in separation." --Abstract.

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"A magic realism coming-of-age short film about an independent college freshman who hopes he can cut himself off from his helicopter parents. But after they are gone he discovers he needs family and tries to get them back." --Abstract.

Overview "A 17-minute experimental-narrative short film. After an interview goes wrong, Trishul, a once successful author, works on a new book about a life with a brother he never knew, but is distracted by dreams of a lover he left behind. As Trishul works on his new novel, dreams of a past life meld with the potential of a future life with Sylvia, his ex-fiancé. Trishul continues to lose focus as he writes about the brother he left behind in India when an American family adopted him. Ultimately,...

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"New Dawn is a futuristic noir about a middle-aged, female private detective searching for a kidnapped little girl while experiencing delusions about her own choice not to have children. The story takes place in Miami in the year 2123 where robots have gained their independence and live side by side humans." --Abstract.

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"A 23-minute multi-narrative film that poses a reflection on time and parting. Four independent storylines intersect in a way that knit twelve characters' vignettes together, implying the melancholy truth -- separation is happening on every clock tick." --Abstract.

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Chameleon-like tabloid sports reporter, Finley Donnelly, will do anything and be anyone to land an exposé. When she is assigned to find dirt on a press-shy tennis superstar with an immaculate image, she quickly discovers that to get this career-making sto

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"A fictional narrative film about a desperate mother’s return from her new habitat to save her young son from dying in a polluted world. While the mother plans to save the child in a mysterious unconventional way, the father insists on the medical treatment for the boy and a life in the polluted world." --Abstract.

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"Personal is a narrative short movie depicting an immanent crisis in the life of a young Iranian woman who carries on a secretive modeling career. The story, which takes place against the backdrop of Tehran, a dizzying modern day metropolis, portrays the struggles of women living under an Islamic theocracy." --Abstract.

Overview "Realty Check focuses on a business woman's struggle to remain ethical and positive in the real estate world, as she shows her young daughter what it means to be responsible for one's own actions. While the plot narrows in on the specifics of sales goals and achieving high status in the workplace, the underlying theme is indubitably the importance of family and what it means to find your home, both in the physical sense and the emotional sense. The film situates itself into the body of work...

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"The Rub is a film following Nadia, a writer on tour to promote the film version of her coming out memoir, and her girlfriend, Josefina. On the last stop of the tour, Nadia flirts with her publishing handler, Stacey, leading all three women to ask what they want out of relationships. The Rub is about how people tell their stories to themselves and others, how they mediate their experiences, and how holding onto those experiences damages relationships." --Abstract.

Overview "Sailing Along, like my other scripts, is a story about a female protagonist who must dig deep within herself to overcome many obstacles. This story is a murder mystery set in a small quaint Cape Cod town. More than just a murder mystery, Sailing Along touches on multiple things: how a widow must deal with the demands of being a single parent to a teenage son, an insensitive boss, needing to collaborate with someone who hurt her in her past, and trying to solve a crime that hard hits the...