Laurel Parmet

A wealthy Los Angeles teen and her superficial friends wants to break out of suburbia and experience Southern California's "gangsta" lifestyle. But problems arise when the preppies get in over their heads and provoke the wrath of a violent Latino gang. Suddenly, their role-playing seems a little too real.

17-year-old Jem Starling struggles with her place within her Christian fundamentalist community. But everything changes when her magnetic youth pastor Owen returns to their church.

An investigation into abuse and missing children at an Indian residential school in Canada ignites a reckoning on the nearby Sugarcane Reserve.

Determined to see “the river,” two young children living in Los Angeles leave home to embark on a magical urban odyssey.

A woman goes on a daytime show to confront a famous music producer of sexual harassment, only to find him armed with the “perfect apology.”

Teenage Kira attempts to take revenge after a heartbreaking betrayal by her ex-best friend.

Amanda struggles to keep something inside as she spends the day taking pictures of her best friend.

A young woman walking home alone encounters three different types of men. Whom can she trust?

The story of Melissa Reed, daughter of Keith Jesperson, aka the Happy Face Killer. After decades of no contact, Keith forces his way back into his daughter’s life, and Melissa must find out if an innocent man is going to be put to death for a crime her father committed. In the process, she must face a reckoning of her own identity.

In his most personal project to date, Michael K. Williams explores underground economies in America and around the world.