VIDEOS/PILOTS
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Birthing Sovereignty
Documentary
Birthing Sovereignty features five Anishinaabe women on the Fond du Lac Reservation sharing Indigenous traditions for raising babies in this instructive and spiritual documentary produced by the Ojibwemowining Digital Arts Studio. After 200+ years of colonization, Ojibwe resilience is helping to revive the use of cradleboards, moss bags, and belly button pouches.
Caminantes (Walkers)
Documentary
“Caminantes” from Venezuela leave and cross Colombia on foot, fleeing the crisis. Jóse R Guzmán shows the stark truth of thousands of Venezuelans from within. Between shelters, long daily walks, and low temperatures with very few provisions, a vivid and humorous experience develops, as no one has done it before.
Cleaner Daze
Short Drama
Welcome to The Cliffs, the one and only teen drug rehab in Santa Cruz, California. Nobody wants to be there, not even the staff. As the pent-up teens sneak around trying to do whatever they can to get high, Jasmine and her eccentric co-workers, addicts in recovery themselves, do their best to “treat” them. And once an addict, always an addict.
Fintiannit
Documentary
A short documentary that continues the themes and work from In the Land of the Finndians (book published in Finland in 2016). Featuring among others Lyz Jaakola, Rebecca and Jim Gawboy.
Hooked
Short Drama
A dramedy set in 1986 San Francisco, a young man and woman meet at a video store, sparking a contentious love-hate relationship resembling an addiction that neither can quit. Together, they will commit a crime and flee to the island of Santorini, believing life in paradise will cure all that ails them.
Jeffrey T. Larson
Documentary
This film follows the life of Jeffrey T. Larson, an artist and modern-day master of contemporary realism. Through chance encounters, failed pottery classes and desperate situations that drove him and his young family down to their last few cents, the film reveals the unwavering passion for oil painting that steered Larson to become one of today's most acclaimed artists.
New Neighbors
Short Film
The Blackwell family moves into a new, predominantly white neighborhood. One day, in reaction to the rash of deaths of young Black men; Faye, the mother, decides to combat fear and treat with an age old strategy of door knocking. A gesture meant to create harmony only escalates tension in relationships, freak incidents, and absurd micro-aggression to a point where the family learns up close what it means to be an outsider.
ON
Short Drama
ON revolves around the members of a Device Addict’s Anonymous meeting five years in the future, and a mysterious new member, Isaac, whose tech addiction runs deeper than the rest. By the end of the first season we learn that something from within the technology itself is using Isaac for a larger purpose, and has actually brought them all together for a reason. It’s a character-driven series about reconnecting as humans in an overly-virtual, very-near future. A grounded sci-fi: Black Mirror meets High Maintenance.
Stormchaser
Drama
All Bonnie Blue ever wanted was to chase tornadoes with her Dad. But dreams die with time. Now, up against a recession, she's become a different kind of storm chaser - hawking storm-doors "door-to-door" around Shamrock, USA, for her charismatic boss, Flip Smyth. As she grasps that Flip's doctrine of "Flip the Switch!" is just a way to exploit customers, a different kind of switch flips inside Bonnie - unleashing an inner and outer storm of violence.
This Isn’t Me.
Comedy
An earnest West Hollywood homosexual with a skewed sense of decorum chases meaning and intimacy, routinely humiliating himself and occasionally stumbling into moments of grace. Absurd, irreverent, and heartfelt, This Isn’t Me is a is a coming-of-age story for the developmentally deferred, a series about becoming the person you could be—if only you were someone else.
Work/Friends
Drama
Sam is a sharp but indecisive millennial, torn between what a professional should be and what she is. When Sam is promoted ahead of her older and more experienced best friend Angie, unspoken tensions about class, age and sex erupt, jeopardizing the personal and professional relationships of everyone in the office.
88
Drama
How one forsaken Queens precinct handled crime, policing, and politics in 1980’s New York. Detective Sica, who’s overzealous and looking to be a hero, is put under intense departmental pressure to solve a cop-killer case. When Detective Sica shoots and kills an innocent black teen, he must decide what’s more important, his freedom or self-preservation. Sica’s story dovetails with Brennan, an over-worked and anonymous assistant district attorney with mayoral aspirations. Brennan becomes a media darling after his younger brother Eddie, a rookie cop, is murdered. Brennan must decide whether or not to use his newfound political capital to jump his boss and run for mayor.
Before We Wrap
Reality
Before We Wrap is a late night talk show that embodies the aesthetic and energy of 90’s urban radio, recalibrated for a millennial audience. This lifestyle series features candid discussions on issues of race, gender, identity, health and wellbeing. Before We Wrap combines uniquely black, female, and urban rituals, to extract universally relatable themes and create a stimulating and thoughtful entertaining experience.
Clear
Short Film
Clear follows Ember Bearheart Johnson's first day at home after a 16-year prison sentence for a crime she didn't commit. Reuniting with her daughter (who was an infant at the time she was incarcerated) is bittersweet as she uncovers how her family's lives have gone on without her after all these years.
Currency
Drama
Currency takes place in a small town one week after all banking, credit, and electronic monetary records disappear. People only have the food in their homes, the money in their pockets, and fading faith that their bank accounts will come back. A Cuban immigrant father and his daughter run the town's gas station and realize that they have the two things everyone needs as the country is plunged into crisis: food and gasoline. But the family finds itself deeply divided about what to do with its newfound "wealth."
Jones
Short Film
Aware that her drinking has become destructive, Jones takes a go at living the sober life. Not wanting to be someone else’s problem, she pushes away help and comes face to face with herself and her lack of control.
Lazy Circles
Short Comedy
Lazy Circles is a single-camera comedy taking a look at the hilarity and excitement in a small Oklahoma town. Whether it’s the house-raiding librarian’s book burnings, the mayor’s citizen arrest machine that catches perverts, or deadly storms being tracked by a weatherman’s nose, there’s always something crazy happening in Goshè.
Outsourced: The New Wisconsin Idea
Documentary
UW-Superior suspended 25 programs, with no transparency. Following the aftermath of the program suspensions at UW-Superior, this film looks into the future of higher education in the state of Wisconsin through interviews with students, faculty, and community members.
Promoter in Paradise
Drama
Tuti, a recent college grad with big dreams is struggling to catch a break in the dog-eat-dog job market – especially with the added pressure of a mother looking to see her married. Upon stumbling into the aftermath of a major party, Tuti accidentally lands a role with Bali’s premier event manager, Tina. Tuti must not only survive the next 48 hours but also pull off the party of the year to keep her dream alive.
Space Command
Drama
A new series from Marc Scott Zicree, writer for Star Trek -- The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Babylon Five and many other shows, this hopeful vision of the future features Doug Jones (Star Trek Discovery, The Shape of Water), Mike Harney (Orange is the New Black, Project Blue Book), Robert Picardo (Star Trek Voyager, Stargate Atlantis), Mira Furlan (Lost, Babylon 5), Bill Mumy (Lost in Space, Babylon Five), Bruce Boxleitner (Babylon 5, Supergirl), Ethan McDowell (Doom Patrol), Bryan McClure (Atlanta, Mindhunter) and Aungelique Scott (Breaking News, Eye Of The Heart, The Real”).
The Coyote Way
Drama
This sci-fi docu-narrative follows Charlie, who is forced to choose between joining a Native street gang or going on an epic pilgrimage. Featuring an entirely Native American cast, the film was shot in the Minneapolis neighborhoods of Phillips and Little Earth.
The Small Business Revolution
Reality
Every Season, The Small Business Revolution lands in one small town - bringing a half million dollars, thousands of hours of work, expertise from across the country, and a national spotlight to the small businesses at the heart of the community. The project, and the documentary series that captures it, are testing a theory: can small businesses bring life to the towns that big industry has abandoned?
The Weekend Detectives
Comedy
Meet Alex and Alice McNally: part-time cops, full-time twins. Anything they say or do can and will be used against them. After their father, the former chief of police, died in the line of duty, the McNally twins were thrown into the force to fulfill his last dying wish. Underqualified and overconfident, they are only permitted to work weekends. They are assigned “special police tasks” which often get them “in way over their heads.”
Beneath The Ink
Documentary
In a time when society's belief systems are seemingly changing, or even reverting in time, one Ohio tattoo artist, Billy Joe White, is challenging his community by saying: "bring me your mistakes." Beneath the Ink is a timely look at hate and racism in the western foothills of the Appalachian region that reveals heartfelt stories of change and redemption.
Chosen
Short Drama
Atara Hirsch's father has been missing for three weeks and declared deceased. But when Atara's estranged Uncle Yoni returns from Kiev, taking her father's place at the head of the table, Atara is unwilling to move on. Unable to accept her father’s death and growing increasingly curious about Yoni’s inconvenient arrival, Atara continues to search for her father in secret.
Dog Walker
Short Film
After losing custody of her children in a contentious divorce, Jill who now works as a dog walker and lives in the low income section of her upscale town, takes revenge on a privileged client.
Home Turf
Drama
Home Turf is an unlikely sisterhood that forms in the beige-toned half-basement of a foster home for “problem” teenage girls in the year 2000. Soon after arriving from Africa, Sahara, a mixed-race 15-year-old, is driven by CPS to a foster home in the suburbs. At the house, run by “Auntie,” she finds four teenage girls who object to her presence and make her life miserable. But little by little Sahara makes friends with the girls, turning enemies into allies against the ostracism of those around them.
Hysterical Women
Comedy
Hysterical Women is a dark comedy about gender in the workplace, in our current political and sociological climate. It follows Alexa - the overlooked co-founder of a music marketing firm - as she realizes that all her buddies in the office might not be such good guys. The women in this office are ready for a revolution. Will Alexa have the guts to do anything about it? Can she be the leader they need?
Inpatient
Drama
An unlikely group of strangers in a NYC psych ward must learn how to cope without losing their minds – at least no more than the world already thinks they have.
Just Call Me Ripley
Short Comedy
Just Call Me Ripley is a coming out story where nobody cries! This comedic web series centers on Ripley whose group of diverse, queer, wacky friends will support her no matter what she decides about her sexuality - but that doesn’t always make things easier... (okay, maybe there’s a little crying).
Magnolia's Hope
Documentary
When three-year-old Magnolia Tesler was diagnosed with Rett Syndrome, her parents didn’t know what to do. This intimate documentary follows the Tesler family as they spring into action in an effort to cure their daughter from a rare, debilitating disorder.
Petaki
Short Drama
For Native students, classrooms are oftentimes the first battlegrounds. Native students oftentimes must ignore assaults on real history and also their self-esteem for survival; it is a brutal process and results in the erasure of Native figures from history and the elevation of Europeans to a heightened place in history. Petaki is just one story of what happens when one student engages that battleground armed with real history and intentions not to be erased ever again.
Starship Goldfish
Comedy
Sam Sweetmilk just wants to die in a blaze of laser-frazzled glory. That’s all. When a man wipes all of his own memories, his reasons why included, and finds himself on a lonely starship in deep space with emptiness at his heels and confusion ahead, he can either build a new life like an adult, or refuse it entirely. Naturally he chose the latter.
The Lovelys
Short Comedy
The Lovelys is a dark comedy that follows a family of quirky misfits who inhabit a remote area in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia. The family, run by fierce and former drag queen, "Memaw Lovely," grapple with all the typical trials and tribulations of any close-knit family with one distinct difference - they're a pack of misguided killers!
Who You Are
Short Comedy
The accidental invention of an asshole AI spells trouble for a tech startup in the late 80’s. While trying to construct a machine capable of providing the world’s most accurate personality quiz, three computer engineers in a small garage in Silicon Valley accidentally stumble upon a full-fledged artificial intelligence that can read souls.
SCRIPTS
Comedy
The Adventures of Ash and Owen
Arun Narayanan
In their predominately white middle school in Connecticut, two preteen social outcasts, one Indian-American and one African-American, form a partnership that unexpectedly propels them to the top of the social ladder.
Butch Pal for the Straight Gal
Ally Johnson
In a world where societal pressures often force women to act, dress and conform to unrealistic feminine stereotypes, five queer women, each with their own specialty, help straight women re-discover their true identity and offer tips on how they can overcome outdated gender roles. With areas of expertise including Fashion, Grooming, Cooking, Design, and Culture, straight women will learn everything from simplifying their morning routine to life skills traditionally attributed to men.
Butterhead
Jean Sramek
Evelyn, a terrible person, wants to be Princess Kay of the Milky Way in the worst way. A dark comedy set at the Minnesota State Fair.
Developmental
Tommy Heleringer
A never-made-it actor in New York struggles to get it out - whether it's pain, diarrhea, or an inner demon with a dildo problem - until he creates a show from his own life and learns what it truly means to "make it."
Down & Out
Coyote Clark
A mockumentary about a trio of roommates trying to survive Hell. Literally.
Fish Food
Grace Hayden & Amy Stoner
Maneuvering online dating in midlife while hiding her sex addiction, Alex pursues being a fly fishing guide for the top fresh water predator as the path to learning how to love again. Fish Food is a story of finding healing by embracing vulnerability and brokenness. It also invites the viewer to follow their own heart as the only true way to find satisfying love and peace. Transformation is work. It is intentional. It is often messy and scary. And, the guides who help us the most often come in surprising guises.
Fourth Wall
Allyson Morgan
The Fourth Wall is a half-hour comedy about high school students who start their own community theater in the break room of a pizza shop.
Millennial Divorce Club
Ethan David & Jorja Hudson
The series ‘Millennial Divorce Club’ will explore the question; “How does getting divorced in your twenties compare to getting divorced later in life?” The theme of the show is that the seemingly-frivolous problems of millennial divorcees are analogous to those of middle-aged divorcees who appear to have more at stake.
Mr. Trivia
Wendy Braff
A socially inept, walking encyclopedia of a man keeps his dream of someday being a game show host alive by running his own Trivia event company. Besides the usual bar games, he custom tailors games for everything from bridal showers to children's birthday parties to his weekly game at a home for dementia patients.
Nasty Habits
Juliette Cohen
Nasty Habits follows the tumultuous journey of newbie nun, Sister Marie Graves, who has recently fled her former life in showbiz to become a newly minted nun-in-training at The Sisters of St. Augustine. Though eager to follow her calling, Marie finds that life inside the convent is much crazier than anything she ever experienced in the outside world. These sisters are out for blood and when Marie’s deadbeat ex returns with some outstanding debts he believes he’s owed, Marie will have a choice: retreat back to the quiet desperation of her old life or try and mark her territory in what seems like a veritable wolves den. "Orange Is The New Black" meets "Mean Girls" set in a convent. Inspired by a true story.
Pitch Palace
Pablo Andreu
At the dawn of the "fake news" era, a young public relations executive invents a visionary techpreneur in order to survive in her dysfunctional work environment.
Public Course
Micah Cohen & Matthew Mullen
15 years after losing his leg in Afghanistan, a former blue-collar golf prodigy must battle addiction and his own demons to reclaim his life and career.
Scouts
Rachel Ravel
Lucy, a pot-smoking, class-cutting, underachieving high school senior must participate in an extracurricular activity to get into her dream art school in New York City. With all the good extracurriculars already full, Lucy only has one option, the Girl Scouts.
Drama
Catalyst
Minoti Vaishnav
On a cruise ship traveling between San Diego and Cabo San Lucas, an unknown disaster causes 90% of the people on board to drop dead. With the life rafts mysteriously stolen, the engines dead and the communications systems mysteriously fried, the small group of survivors realize they're being targeted. They must investigate what happened to the dead, why they've been chosen to live, and who's behind the attacks. As they begin to search the boat for answers, they find that all is not what it seems, and there's even more at stake than just their lives.
County of Kings
Dave Chan
County of Kings is a serialized crime-drama about four close friends of different ethnicities who rise to the thrones of their criminal empires and must choose between bonds of friendship and family loyalty as the underworld vie for control of Brooklyn in the 1980s.
Ecco, Idaho
Christian Lybrook
On the dusty outskirts of Eisenhower’s America, George Hennesey, a failed geophysicist who has never forgiven himself for the disappearance of his sister, and Cat Clausen, a teenage rebel outcast, stumble into greatest technology race the world has ever known when Cat’s best friend vanishes off the face of the planet.
Flow
Jordan Jaffe
Set in the high stakes international oil business of the 1970’s, young bi-sexual Texas oilman Charlie Kurtz struggles to save his family’s oil company from the threat of Libyan strongman Mummar Qadaffi’s nationalizations of oil fields owned by American firms. Turning to his former lover, a prominent Saudi Prince for help, Charlie must maneuver against the board room machinations of his half-brother and a crusading local big haired journalist in a winner take all game of survival of the fittest with global implications.
The Met
Barry Leach
In 1920, a naïve young woman from a poor family dreams of being an opera singer at the New York Metropolitan Opera, where the prima donna tries to hide her early stages of Parkinson’s disease, and the other performers and maestros must overcome grief, morphine addiction, heavy debts, extreme guilt, and PTSD, while navigating prohibition, and the hatred of Germans -- and its impresario is German.
Mill City
Nickolaus Swedlund
Mill City is a premium hour-long drama based on the McKenzie mystery novels by author David Housewright. Ex-St. Paul cop Rushmore McKenzie has more time, and more money, than he knows what to do with. In fact, when he's willing to admit it to himself (and he usually isn't), McKenzie is downright bored. Until he decides to do a favor for a friend facing a family tragedy: nine-year-old Stacy Carlson has been diagnosed with leukemia, and the only one with the matching bone marrow that can save her is her older sister, Jamie. Trouble is, Jamie ran away from home years ago.
The Naked Eye
Sean Skelton
In the near future, a young woman executes clandestine missions for a mysterious global network with extraterrestrial ties, but revelations about her displaced life are enlightening her to the dark truths of her existence.
Protect & Conserve
Daniel Olson
A northwoods procedural, Protect & Conserve follows conservation officers in the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources as they investigate all sorts of crimes against nature.
The Rebound
Matthieu Silberstein
The Rebound takes place in a futuristic world where humans have recently found out that if anybody reaches the age of 125, their body regenerates to their early 20s. A gift for those who can afford the health care necessary to keep their heart beating until their rebound day and a catastrophe for a civilization dealing with the dire consequences of over-population. While politicians try to cope with the many implications of this new fact of life on society, across the globe people start to rebound. Some to live the life they want after living the life they were supposed to. Some to resume their life's work. Or in the case of Cody, who spent half of his first life in prison, for revenge.
Rust
Justin Moran
While trying to scrape a living in the asteroid belt, the members of a mining ship pick up a survivor from an old shipwreck, which launches them into a world of bounty hunters and a mammoth mining conglomerate.
Schooling the Rich
Elaine Loh
Elite tutors in Los Angeles have unlimited access to the rich and powerful - through their children. But how do the rich and powerful react when a tutor steals drugs from their ADHD eight year old? Has sex with their big-tits-thin-waist seventeen year old? Or damages a closeted fourteen year old so deeply that he attempts to hurt himself? Schooling the Rich is a nighttime soap full of intrigue, scandal, and retribution, in which we will learn how devastating it can be when money and power turn against you.
Tales From Suburbia
Kristi Gescheidler & Michael Sapieja
Meet the Goodwins. An all American family living in a small suburban town in the 1950's. The neighbors envy Maxine, who is the perfect housewife and mother. But if the neighbors only knew about her darkside. Each episode begins with a narration by her psychiatrist Dr. Schroder, giving glimpses into Maxine psyche. Episodes place current day issues into the 1950's.
Vaccine
Matthew Ballen
When her young daughter gets sick from a mysterious vaccine, a mother must battle dark supernatural forces to save her. But her toughest enemies might be her own complicated past—as well as a group of parents who opposed the vaccine in the first place.
PITCHES
Coming For You
Created by Taylor Coriell and Adriana DeGirolami
A mockumentary-style comedy about a passionate film director and her crew who take their jobs as filmmakers way too seriously given that they are, well, making porn.
Georgi & The Bot
Created by Jade Daugherty and Fred Soligan
When Georgi’s company tasks her with training “Opto,” a robot that will eventually replace her, she accidentally teaches it to be a neurotic mess, jeopardizing both of their futures.
Super Girlfriend
Created by Allyson Morgan
SUPER GIRLFRIEND is a superhero story, told from the perspective of the superhero’s girlfriend. When a woman finds out the man she’s falling for is part of an underground superhero network, she must she must decide if their new romance can survive her own priorities and his extraordinary circumstances.
PODCASTS
We Talk Weekly's "After the Talk"
We Talk Weekly's "After the Talk" is an experimental/new media radio/tv program which pushes the limits of radio to a television format while incorporating fashion, music, current events, and entertainment.
Life Changes Podcast
The Life Changes Podcast, hosted by Samantha Klose & Sarah Williams, two friends who drink wine, share their personal experiences, and explore the many changes that happen in life. Episodes feature expert guests on topics ranging from cannabis, marriage and family therapy, dating disasters, and more. The podcast is produced by Jay Diaz, a director & filmmaker who created “The Flip Side” viral series.
Rain Delay Theater
Jack and Jeremy are two Larry Davids when it comes to going to baseball games. Thankfully, they have a podcast to review the experience and rant about the crazy fans, the bad in-game features, and sometimes actually talk about the game!
Take It With You
Take It With You is an hour-long, originally scripted, live radio theatre podcast complete with versatile voice actors (think The Simpsons), all original music (think South Park), and old-school foley sound effects (think Monty Python coconut horses) performed in front of a studio audience in Duluth, Minnesota. It's the Golden Age of Radio but without the "age" or the "radio." It's just gold.