O’DESSA
Directed By Geremy Jasper
Starring Sadie Sink, Regina Hall, Kelvin Harrison Jr. and Murray Barlett.
In Post Production with Searchlight Pictures
Set in a post-apocalyptic future, O’Dessa is an original rock opera about a farm girl on an epic quest to recover a cherished family heirloom. Her journey leads her to a strange and dangerous city where she meets her one true love – but in order to save his soul, she must put the power of destiny and song to the ultimate test.
NOBODY, NOTHING, NOWHERE
Directed By Rachel Wolther and Alex H. Fischer
Starring Octavia Spencer, Lucy Liu and Joseph Gordon Levitt.
Blacklist, Sundance Screenwriters Lab
Ruth is one of the Non-People, human-looking beings designed and trained for the sole purpose of filling in a realistic world for a bland guy named Dave, the only person that actually exists on Earth. Tired of serving as an extra in someone else’s life, Ruth is ready to demand a life of her own.
KILL YR IDOLS
Directed By Carlos Lopez Estrada
Starring Gina Rodriguez and Xolo Maridueña.
Combining the high energy raucous humor of Superbad with the cultural and place-specific introspection of Reservation Dogs, Kill Yr Idols is a comedic coming of age punk rock journey through the Rio Grande Valley. In 48 hours, best friends Carlos and Felix will finally play the first show of their teenage lives, opening for local legend Ramona Casas — if they can convince anyone at their high school to show up for it.
UNTITLED TREE PROJECT
Directed By Sam Green
Untitled Tree Project is a poetic meditation on the power of trees and all they can teach us about being human. The film will inspire us to deepen our relationship to nature, build bridges between people and offer collective healing through our natural world.
THE OLDEST PERSON IN THE WORLD
Directed By Sam Green
The Oldest Person in the World is a feature documentary that continuously documents each individual who holds the title of oldest living person. As the torch inevitably passes from one elder to the next, Sam Green (32 Sounds, The Weather Underground) spends 10 years traversing the globe to film each record holder. The result is a delightful and captivating film on a subject that fascinates people across countries and cultures. As the film unfolds, however, it transforms into a poignant meditation on the passage of time, the randomness of fate, and the joy and the profound human experience of being alive.
UNPLANNED
Directed By Josephine Decker
Artist and filmmaker Josephine Decker returns to her hometown of Dallas to understand the impact of Dobbs on Texan women and families. She facilitates a series of workshops in which five teen mothers create a short film reflecting their thoughts on motherhood. Through verité documentation, the relationships that emerge reveal housing and mental health crises, the urgency of transportation, the lack of contraceptive options, and a tender, complex, ever-evolving friendship between these mothers and Josephine.
THE RIVER
Directed by Caitlyn Greene
THE RIVER is a vivid, character driven film about Louisiana’s complex relationship with the Mississippi River.
OPERATOR (Series)
In development at Amazon
A new, scripted show from Amazon based on our podcast, OPERATOR: During the 1-900 number craze of the Nineties, one company provided the vast majority of phone sex. American Telnet was an empire founded by the man who called himself “The Telephone Pimp.” OPERATOR is a series about big ambitions, Shakespearean-level corporate backstabbing, men and women at the cutting edge of a technological revolution…and on the front lines of a sexual one.
KID TALES (series)
What if a kid’s wildest idea could be turned into a film with help from the world’s greatest directors and actors? Kid Tales is a new unscripted series giving cinematic life to children’s most imaginative stories. Five kids (5-9 years old) will be chosen to go to Camp Kid Tales where they will partner with a world class film director to bring an original story to life.
RACHEL IN LOVE
Written By Alexa Lim Haas
Rachel has the mind of a teenage girl but the body of a chimpanzee. After her human scientist father dies, she is captured and taken to a primate research facility, where she is caged and studied with no recognition of the human soul inside her. Rachel longs to be understood, but as she struggles to navigate both the chimp and the human worlds, she must decide who she really is and who she wants to be.
SUPREME
Written By Jill Twiss
When a by-the-books legal clerk finds a Supreme Court justice dead just before a down-to-the-wire election, she and her rebellious best friend must dupe the world into thinking that he’s still alive in order to stop a greedy president (not that one!) from corrupting the court and destroying the country. But will they be able to save the rules by breaking the rules?