Denise Smolarek

Blind River

Claire Lewis, a blind woman, is overly cautious with her six-year-old daughter Briar. When Briar goes missing Christmas day, Claire faces her worst nightmare and sets out in darkness to find her.

Exile

Kris, an undocumented Polish immigrant laborer in Chicago, meets a successful American film director. His bold and possibly futile attempt to revive his abandoned acting career is derailed when a family crisis erupts back home in Poland.

The Coder

In the midst of a catastrophic software crisis at a crypto startup, CTO Mary must race against time to save her company — and her sanity.