Art Teacher As Protagonist
Twist
HDA Modern take on the classic tale of Oliver Twist.
Once Upon a Time in the Apocalypse
HDIn the near future of the Wild West, a civil war has ravaged the US, leaving countless dead and the rest living in lawlessness.
55 Steps
HDWhen patients' rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients in hospitals, she is meeting a woman who will make it her mission to transform Colette's workaholic life.
Submission
HDA cynical college professor takes a keen interest in a talented young writing student.
Benji
HDBENJI is a remake of the popular 1974 movie. It's a family-friendly movie about the love between a stray dog and two children who recently lost their father. This action-adventure movie is full of suspense and holds the viewer's attention throughout the story. After the pound takes Benji's mother, Benji is left an orphan. He lives on the streets, finding food and rest wherever he can. Through a long journey and a string of sneaky, comical scenes hiding in furniture on the back of a pick-up-truck, he makes his way to the city where he meets Carter. The boy buys some strawberries and tries to feed the dog, but Benji is timid and doesn't know whom to trust. He runs to hide in a hole in the side of the building. The boy leaves the strawberries there. Benji realizes the boy isn't dangerous and follows Carter and his sister, Frankie, home. He climbs up a set of stairs and appears in their window. Carter and Frankie let the dog inside. They gave him a bath and play with him all afternoon. When their mom comes home, they hide Benji with their stuffed animals so she won't notice he's there. The next morning, when their mom comes to wake the kids for school, it startles Benji and he barks at her. She freaks out when she discovers her children have brought a stray dog in the house. She demands them to get rid of it. On a sad, rainy day, Carter puts Benji back on the streets. Flash forward to Carter and Frankie stopping by a pawnshop to try to buy their father's watch their mom had to sell for money. When they arrive, a robbery is taking place and the store-owner is being held hostage. One of the robbers loses his mask in the process, and the children see his face. Frightened they may reveal his face to authorities; the robbers capture the children and throw them in a van. Benji, who has been following the children since they put him back on the streets, follows the van to an abandoned house. He runs back to the city and through a determined set of attempts he convinces their mom, the police and another scruffy street dog to follow him. Can they rescue the children in time? (thanks to movieguide)
Playing Cupid
HDIn the halls of Austen Middle School, a newly single middle-school teacher is covertly set up with a divorced dad after his daughter - one of her students - begins a matchmaking business for a school project she assigned her class.
Hostile
HDJuliette, a lone survivor of an apocalyptic era, fights to survive against hunger, thirst, a broken leg and strange, disturbing creatures that only come out at nighttime.
Save the Wedding
HDWhen ambitious wedding planner Meg Mooreland is assigned the task of being in charge of her best friend Ellie's upcoming wedding, she has no idea a series of misevents will end up giving Ellie cold feet at the last minute. Together with her college nemesis and best man Tyler, they must team up to help save the wedding, and perhaps find some romance along the way.
Language Lessons
HDA Spanish teacher and her student develop an unexpected friendship.
Chasing Waterfalls
HDWhile Amy Atwater works on the computer software side of Seattle based Global Explorer, an online outdoor travel magazine, she aspires to more creative work, most specifically photography, which is just a hobby at the moment. When she learns that one of the staff photographers is out of commission for an upcoming article, Amy, with portfolio in hand, is able to convince her editor, Camilla, to give her the assignment on the caveat of sending some preliminary shots within short order for approval to proceed further. That assignment is to photograph the more elusive waterfalls of the Pinewood Lakes area, it uncertain if some of those waterfalls, most specifically Redwood Falls, actually exist or if they are just legends in there being no official records, photographic or otherwise. The difficulty for Amy is that she is not an outdoor type person, she lost without her GPS, let alone no trail markers or trails in some cases. However, she sees this assignment as a metaphor of her life as she has felt she has always been chasing waterfalls. At the lodge in the park, she meets one of the tour guides, divorced Mark North, and his eleven year old daughter, Kyra North, of who he shares custody. Mark is known as the person at the lodge that would know the location of the more elusive waterfalls if they do indeed exist. A mutual attraction quickly develops between Amy and Mark, for Amy the complete package that also includes Kyra, which does not sit well with Mark's tour guide colleague Tara, who has always seen herself possibly as the next Mrs. North if given the chance. In the process, Mark is able to share the magic of of the area and its waterfalls and what he knows of those waterfalls in which Amy is specifically interested. A possible further obstacle to a progression in their relationship is if Amy's work assignment, which if she succeeds could mark the next phase of her career, takes precedent, especially in needing to meet Camilla's expectations.
Reefa
HDIsrael "Reefa" Hernandez Jr, an 18-year-old Colombian immigrant and talented artist, is spending his last summer in Miami with friends, family and his new girl Frankie before moving to New York City on an art scholarship. While Israel and his friends skateboard the city streets and spray paint the walls of Wynwood, Miami's graffiti Mecca, anxieties emerge twofold: Israel and his family nervously await their Green Cards while he desperately seeks recognition for his art. On August 6, 2013, as Israel spray paints one last wall which would command immediate respect from his peers, a fatal encounter with a police officer leaves his family and friends devastated, the Miami community outraged, and the country reeling from another case of police brutality.
The Marijuana Conspiracy
HDIn 1972, young women looking for a fresh start in life endure isolated captivity in a true 98-day human experiment studying the effects of marijuana on females.
Limbo
HDLimbo is a wry and poignant observation of the refugee experience, set on a fictional remote Scottish island where a group of new arrivals await the results of their asylum claims. It centers on Omar (Amir El-Masry), a young Syrian musician who is burdened by his grandfather's oud, the king of Arabic music instruments, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.
To the Beat!
HDTo The Beat follows 14 year old twins Mia and Mackie Castillo - dancers since they were toddlers. Beginning at just three years old, that's been their one true passion. They support each other through competitions and rehearsals, even though they dance different styles. Mia loves tap and Mackie loves jazz. When their favorite pop star launches an online contest to find the most unique dance group for his next music video, the twins each form their own team to compete for the chance to dance in the video - enlisting their friends and family to help gain online votes. Meanwhile, their arch rival and neighbor, Avery, the best dancer of all (who knows it too) uses her charm and resources to get the better hand in the competition.
Spirit Untamed
HDLucky Prescott's life is changed forever when she moves from her home in the city to a small frontier town and befriends a wild mustang named Spirit.
Sound of Violence
HDAlexis recovered her hearing during the brutal murder of her family when she was ten. The visceral experience awakened synesthetic abilities in her and started her on an orphaned path of self-discovery through the healing music of brutal violence. She goes on to pursue a career teaching and experimenting to find new sounds. She is supported and loved by her roommate Marie who is unaware of the dark secrets behind Alexis' unique music and the part she unknowingly plays. Faced with the likelihood of losing her hearing again, Alexis escalates her pursuit of her masterpiece through gruesome sound experiments and devastating designs. She won't let anything stop her not even love.
The Heiresses
HDChela and Chiquita are both descended from wealthy families in Asunción and have been together for over 30 years. But recently, their financial situation has worsened and they begin selling off their inherited possessions. But when their debts lead to Chiquita being imprisoned on fraud charges, Chela is forced to face a new reality. Driving for the first time in years, she begins to provide a local taxi service to a group of elderly wealthy ladies. As Chela settles into her new life, she encounters the much younger Angy, forging a fresh and invigorating new connection. Chela finally begins to break out of her shell and engage with the world, embarking on her own personal, intimate revolution.
The Tribe
HDFidel is a CEO from a company named Omnicron in the eye of the hurricane when, while he was having sex with his secretary on his office, he suddenly suffers of "penis captivus" and is trapped, unable to withdraw of her. The arrival of a medical team to take from there to the hospital is turned in a video viral by some office workers, and he's fired by the company, being rejected too by his girlfriend and adoptive family. Missing from the public eye, a year later Fidel decides to meet his biological mother to rebuild his life, who gave him for adoption after his birth. Going to the hotel where Virginia works as cleaner woman to meet her in the bar, Fidel is bullied by a waiter who was a former intern of his own, causing his rage. Arriving at the bar, Virginia finds a furious Fidel going away from there, and she tries to stop him. Desperate and frustrate, Fidel tries commit suicide throwing himself to a bus, hitting violently and falling to the sidewalk. In the hospital Virginia learns that Fidel suffers amnesia, and not knowing where he lives, Virginia decides take Fidel to her house, where she lives with her two lazies and unemployed sons, Elton and Maikel (Fidel's step-brothers). Discovering his real past in Internet as the guilty to fire Omnicron's 300 employees (friends of her own and including her sons), Virginia hides it to everyone, hoping it to be forgotten. Elton and Maikel, seeing Fidel as a stranger and a menace for them, they expel Fidel from house, walking by the city until that casually he arrives the place where Virginia and her friends make street dance, meeting Maribel, the beauty street dancer teacher. Looking a job for him, Virginia meets Luciano, Fidel's father, for that Fidel works in his supermarket, at the same time that she learns Fidel's talent for street dance. But when a headhunter looking for musical numbers for a TV talent show discovers Las Mamis ("The Mommies"), the musical group formed by Virginia and friends, he recognizes Fidel in the group and takes advantage to the situation, hoping to get high audiences in the program. Meanwhile Virginia tries to save Fidel from the others fearing their reaction if they realize who he is really, Fidel's memory starts to give signals to recovery, implying to face his happy present against his stormy past.
Meander
HDA woman finds herself locked in a series of strange tunnels full of deadly traps.
Cold November
HDA 12-year-old girl being raised within a matriarchal household is taken through the right of passage of killing a deer for the first time. Expectations dissolve into chaos, and Florence finds herself alone, relying on instinct and training to follow through with her decisions, pull herself together, and face becoming an adult in the North American wilderness.
Bitter Flowers
HDThirtysomething Chinese-born Lina borrows money to move to Paris to save up money to pursue her entrepreneurial dreams, leaving behind her husband and son in Dong Bei province. But once in Europe, nothing goes as planned, and she is forced into a line of work she never would have imagined. When her flighty sister-in-law shows up on her doorstep, Lina becomes inevitably tangled in her own web of lies.
Slow Machine
HDAfter her relationship with intelligence agent Gerard ends terribly, tired and disillusioned actress Stephanie hides in a house where a band is working on a record, which proves to be less of an escape than she imagined.
Rock Dog 2: Rock Around the Park
HDWhen Bodi and his band 'True Blue' leave Snow Mountain, to tour with pop sensation, Lil' Foxy, they learn that fame comes at a price.
The Toxic Avenger: The Musical
HDA musical adaptation of the 1984 movie by the same name. "A movie that most people only watched while stoned." A dystopian future of global warming and ecological disaster. While trying to get to the bottom of who's dumping the toxic waste in New Jersey, his discovery leads him to being dumped in the toxic waste to die only to come out as a super strong mutant.
Ploey: You Never Fly Alone
HDA plover chick has not learned to fly when his family migrates in the fall. He must survive the arctic winter, vicious enemies and himself in order to be reunited with his beloved one next spring.
Metropolitan Crush
HDTaylor, a successful professional, is suffocating under the loneliness of being around millions of people. But a ray of light comes from encountering a stranger. Set in San Franciso, this gritty, indie film pushes the boundaries of how far one woman will go feel alive - connected.
St. Agatha
HDIn the 1950s in small-town Georgia, a pregnant young woman named Agatha seeks refuge in a convent. What first starts out as the perfect place to have a child turns into a nightmare wherein silence is forced, ghastly secrets are masked, and every bit of willpower Agatha has is tested as she learns the sick and twisted truth of the convent and the odd people that lurk inside its halls.
Rattle-Can
HDA reclusive college student finds social media fame as a disguised street artist who reveals his story through vandalism.
The Escape
HDA woman sets out to reclaim her life in this stirring, emotionally rich look at what it means to start over. Tara (Arterton), a housewife and mother in suburban London, is living a life that is no longer hers: it belongs to her loving but overworked and self-absorbed husband (Cooper), her young son and daughter and the numbing routine of housework and childcare. In desperate need of a change, Tara one day makes a bold decision. Armed with a one-way ticket to Paris, she leaves everything behind to rediscover herself in a new city - but walking out on your life isn't so simple.
My Perfect Romance
HDNewly appointed CEO of Robinson Tech, Wes Robinson, is looking for new ideas to boost the company's sales. Vivian Blair, a program developer, shares a dating algorithm she has been working on called My Perfect Match. Wes sees potential and an opportunity to turn the company around and launches the service. When the pair is challenged to use My Perfect Match themselves to find love, this algorithm shows some interesting results.
The Night House
HDA widow begins to uncover her recently deceased husband's disturbing secrets.
Let Me Go
HDLet Me Go is a film about mothers and daughters, it is about ghosts from the past and the impact they leave on the present. Developed from Helga Schneider's true life story, Let Me Go explores the effect on Helga's life of being abandoned by her mother, Traudi in 1941 when she was just four years old. The film is set in the year 2000 following not only Helga and Traudi's journeys but the next two generations and how Beth, Helga's daughter and Emily her granddaughter are confronted with the long-term effects of Traudi's leaving. When Helga receives a letter telling her that Traudi is close to death, it is Emily with whom Helga shares the truth. Emily volunteers to accompany her to Vienna to meet the great-grandmother she thought was dead, and experience the unraveling of the darkest of family secrets.