Derrick Aguis

Shirley Chisholm makes a trailblazing run for the 1972 Democratic presidential nomination after becoming the first Black woman elected to Congress.

In 1981 San Francisco, Valentino is an aging Filipino World War II veteran. Beaten down by an oppressive system that stripped him of promised citizenship and benefits, he grabs his old pistol and army jacket for a tense, high-stakes final mission inside a bank.

On a quiet Los Angeles night, 17-year-old Becca enters a rideshare for a routine trip home—unaware her driver is a killer mid-spree, turning the ride into a fight for survival.

After a global neurological epidemic, those who remain search for meaning and connection in a world without memory. Five interwoven stories each explore a different facet of life without memory in a future that has no past.

Trapped in an ambush, a metagalactic captain fends off mysterious beings seeking to leech the human experience from her.

Tells the mythical tale of a woman driven by power who is willing to do anything to get it.

In the year 2012, the 3rd great war comes to an end. The war claims no victors, but both sides succeed in executing their chemical warfare campaigns. The result is over 3 billion deaths. Over ninety-eight percent of the male survivors are rendered sterile. Human reproduction is realized by means of cloning. The first strand of clones are harvested in December of 2012 and received with overwhelming success. It was not until nineteen years later that the first problems arose.

An experimental short film asking: if we make explicit the sexual subtext of two 1940 classic talkies, does it enhance or detract from the meaning?