Eugene Kotlyarenko

Our Hero, Balthazar

Eager to impress his activist crush, a wealthy New York teenager follows an online connection to Texas, where he's convinced he can stop an act of extreme violence.

The Carpenter's Son

A remote village in Roman-era Egypt explodes into spiritual warfare when a carpenter, his wife and their child are targeted by supernatural forces.

Spree

Desperate for an online following, a rideshare driver has figured out a deadly plan to go viral and he will stop at nothing to get his five minutes of fame.

Rotting in the Sun

A filmmaker facing an existential crisis goes on a vacation to a Mexican gay nudist beach, where he meets a social media celebrity who convinces him to collaborate with him on his new TV show. But one disappears and another embarks on a wild journey through Mexico City to find him.

Pet Shop Days

On the run from his unforgiving father in Mexico, Alejandro finds himself in New York City, where he meets Jack, a pet store employee with similar parental baggage. Together the two enter a whirlwind romance sending them down the rabbit hole of drugs and depravity in Manhattan’s underworld. When Alejandro’s past threatens to catch up with him, Jack is forced to choose between his family and a life on the run.

Atropia

When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.

The Sweet East

A picaresque journey through contemporary America, undertaken by a young woman granted access to the strange sects and cults that proliferate in this country by a series of gatekeepers eager to win her over.

Magic Farm

A misguided American documentary crew working for an edgy media company travels to rural Argentina to profile a local musician, but their ineptitude leads them into the wrong small town. As they collaborate with locals to attempt to fabricate a viral trend, unexpected connections blossom, while a pervasive crisis looms unacknowledged in the background.

How to Blow Up a Pipeline

A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.

Cece's Interlude

When a wannabe documentarian sees a viral video of a young trans woman claiming to be pregnant, she thinks she found the perfect subject for her next film.

The Scary of Sixty-First

Two roommates’ lives are upended after finding out that their new Manhattan apartment harbors a dark secret.

El Planeta

Amidst the devastation of post-crisis Spain, mother and daughter bluff and grift to keep up the lifestyle they think they deserve, bonding over common tragedy and an impending eviction.

The Code

Early-pandemic, Jay and Celine head to a rental house to reconnect. While Celine films a documentary on their disintegrating relationship, a recently ‘cancelled’ Jay becomes increasingly paranoid about his portrayal, setting up hidden cameras to spy on Celine.

Harka

Ali is a young Tunisian who dreams of a better life and ekes out a lonely existence selling contraband oil on the black market. When his father dies, he is forced to care for his two younger sisters who have been left to their own devices in a house from which they will soon be evicted. As he wrestles with the sudden weight of responsibility and the injustices he faces, anger and indignation stir within Ali – that of a generation still fighting to be heard more than a decade after the revolution…

Wobble Palace

A couple on the verge of a nervous break-up decide to split their home over the weekend and test the waters of independence.

The Hedonist

After a nervous breakdown, a young office assistant flees to his parents' house in Arizona and hires an escort to take care of him.

SkyDiver (Instructional Video #4: Preparation for Mission)

A young man, reeling from a long-distance romance gone awry, spirals increasingly deeper into depression and desperation as he video chats with his close friends and gets involved with a New Age, Right-wing, domestic terrorist cell.

0s & 1s

Los Angeles, 2006. Life is Easy 2.0 for James Pongo. He has a cushy job, a busy social life and an alluring love interest all through the click of a mouse. But when he wakes up after a night of reckless partying to discover that his computer is missing, James' hyper-connected reality takes a nosedive. Told entirely through the websites, programs, games and social networks, 0s & 1s uses James Pongo's nihilistic adventure to question our growing dependency on these alternate digital realities.

In the Glow of Darkness

As a young hacker challenges the corporation behind Meme—a drug that mines users’ psyches to deliver personalized psychedelic trips and hyper-targeted ads—intersecting stories unfold in strange, fractured rhythms.

Actors

Actor-filmmaker Peter Vack decides to re-identify as female to maintain relevance in the art and entertainment world. This horrifies Peter's sister Betsey and makes her spiral deep into a mania of sibling rivalry as she desperately searches for her own artistic voice.

A Wonderful Cloud

When Eugene’s ex-GF Katelyn lands in LA to disband their business, the two of them must negotiate between past tensions and future possibilities, in this raw bittersweet rom-com that walks the line between fiction and reality.

Wild Card

Two strangers are brought together by a video dating service.

Hustle

Mia Sloan is a bright yet unmotivated 29-year-old waitress who suddenly finds herself in the unenviable position of having one day to raise thousands of dollars in back-due rent in order to stave off eviction. During this memorably hectic day, Mia journeys through her hometown of Tallahassee, encountering various figures from her life while attempting to earn the funds any way she can.

We Are

When Doug - a hapless employee at a VR startup - is forced to work the night shift, he becomes fast friends with a squatting vagrant named Stick. Increasingly belittled by his domineering wife, Vera, and the company's reckless owner, Vikas, Doug falls under Stick's charming spell over the course of several delirious nights. As the two of them bond over the nature of reality, virtual and otherwise, Stick begins empowering Doug to take back control of his life...but to what end?