David Lee Hess

Captive

A teenage runaway who’s trapped by a delusional man, pretends to be his daughter in order to escape.

Queen of Manhattan

Follows the wild, exhilarating life of legendary adult film icon Vanessa Del Rio, set against the backdrop of organized crime-controlled Times Square during the 70s and 80s.

Derelicts

A strained suburban family’s Thanksgiving is disrupted by a gang of vicious vagrants. Barbarity abounds and secrets are brought to the table in this pitch black burlesque.

Pact

Two loners contemplate ending their lives for the sake of an overpopulated Earth.

Oma

A Latvian grandmother comes to visit her daughter in Los Angeles, where she encounters the surreal reality of life in America.

Homestate

A down and out brother shows up unannounced, altering the routine of his sister's family.

Where She Lies

An assaulted teen gives birth in the deep south and receives conflicting narratives about her infant's fate. 36 years later, her mother gives a deathbed confession that the baby never died. A filmmaker helps her uncover the truth.

The Man Who Loved Flowers

Based on the short story by Stephen King, The Man Who Loved Flowers takes place on a night not as romantic as it may seem, following a man searching for a lost love.

Sicko

A family conversation turns grim.

Mississippi Requiem

A collection of four short films based on stories written by William Faulkner.

Fetish

Oddball Clark meets the girl of his dreams, but the relationship is threatened by his foot fetish.

Frazier Park Recut

“FRAZIER PARK RECUT” follows first-time filmmakers (Tyler and Sam) as they document the behind-the-scenes trials and tribulations of producing an independent found-footage horror film. After writing a script, collecting production gear, and securing a “cabin in the woods” location, Tyler and Sam hit gold when they cast the perfect actor, Tom Morris, to play the psychopathic antagonist of their film. With everything falling into place, the trio travels to the small, isolated town of Frazier Park, California to make their dream a reality.

In Good Spirits

An apathetic teenage boy's dysfunctional relationship with his family is tested when his sister's spiritually possessed soul begins to lash out.

First Oscar

The film follows two student cinematographers who, as the war approaches Moscow, refuse to be evacuated and instead volunteer to be front-line cameramen capturing the horrors of war and heroism of the soviet soldiers. At the same time, we witness another storyline taking place in the US. After the premiere screening of the already completed documentary “Moscow Strikes Back”, one of the members of the Academy Awards selection committee is trying to persuade his fellow colleagues to establish a new category of Best Documentary in the upcoming Oscars event.

Aw Rah Nyoosh

A documentary filmmaker attempts to imagine, along with his father, his grandmother's experience at a labor camp during the holocaust.

I Hate Myself and Want to Die

A depressed young guy is trying to kill himself but he keeps getting interrupted by his unsuspecting family and friends.

Weak in the Knees

The story of a masked killer who was eventually feared by all.

Art Fair Fever

A satirical look at the contemporary art world and art sales.

Pastor's Kid

In this raw true story of faith and redemption, college student, Riley, runs from her painful past of abuse and religious hypocrisy. However, God has other plans for Riley when an unforeseen circumstance compels her to confront the very source of her anguish – her estranged mother. As she unravels the layers of her painful childhood, Riley discovers the transformative power of forgiveness and the strength to break free from the chains of her past.

Willie, Jamaley & The Cacacoon

Childhood friends, Willie and Jamaley, embark on a quest to prove the existence of a local mythological creature known as, The Cacacoon.

Shark

A man and his shark-toothed son attempt to preserve their relationship in a world that doesn't care much for them.

1923

Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.

Minx

An earnest young feminist joins forces with a low-rent publisher to make the world's first erotic magazine for women.

Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story

The story of the Menéndez brothers, who were convicted in 1996 of murdering their parents José and Mary Louise “Kitty” Menéndez.

Revolution

One day, electricity just stopped working and the world was suddenly thrust back into the dark ages. Now, 15 years later, a young woman's life is dramatically changed when a local militia arrives and kills her father, who mysteriously—and unbeknownst to her—had something to do with the blackout. An unlikely group sets out off on a daring journey to find answers about the past in the hopes of reclaiming the future.

Baskets

Chip Baskets wants to follow his dream of being a French clown—however, reality keeps interfering. Saddled with financial difficulties and facing an impenetrable language barrier, he moves back home to Bakersfield with high hopes. There, he is forced to confront his past while working as a rodeo clown and competing with his siblings for his mother's approval and affection.

Lessons in Chemistry

In the 1950s, Elizabeth Zott's dream of being a scientist is challenged by a society that says women belong in the domestic sphere. She accepts a job on a TV cooking show and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives way more than recipes.

Magic Funhouse

A series that peeks behind the curtain of a public access children's TV show to reveal the offensive lives of the cast and crew when the cameras are off.

Stoneheart

A young girl is vested by an ancient presence who thrives on empowering those without a voice.