Big Dreams in Little Hope

“Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Oh My God I Think It’s Over” is a peek behind the curtain as the team behind the award-winning comedy series “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” wraps up its final season. We watch as co-creators Rachel Bloom and Aline Brosh McKenna and their many talented collaborators steer the show through its final episode. The film highlights their unique process as they juggle writing, songwriting, choreography on a spinning turntable, last minute big ideas and emergencies, and the “impossible task” of creating a smart, feminist, musical comedy show that’s a process unlike any other show ever to air on network TV.

Some time after her death, film director Jill Craigie (1911- 99), re-opens an old suitcase, prompting memories of the extraordinary life and loves of this forceful, charismatic woman, whose work has been long neglected. Craigie was one of the first women to direct documentaries. Working outside the British Documentary Movement in the 1940s and early 1950s, her films such as To Be Woman (1951), on equal pay, and Out of Chaos (1944), the first film about artists at work, featuring Henry Moore and Paul Nash, tackled new subjects for the cinema through a unique blend of drama, polemic and humour. Independent Miss Craigie uses the director’s unseen papers, and her films, to reveal her energetic struggles to get her radical projects made and distributed, including her last one, on the Yugoslav conflict, made when she was 83, with her husband, former Labour leader, Michael Foot.

A Coptic leper and his orphaned apprentice leave the confines of the leper colony for the first time and embark on a journey across Egypt to search for what is left of their families.

Emily Burton plays Kelly, an aspiring TV news reporter who is sent off to the town of Little Hope conduct marketing interviews with Linda (comedian Julie Goldman), a butch, talkative cameraperson who has aspirations of her own (she wants to be a tattoo artist). Unexpectedly stranded at a quirky youth hostel as the annual Chili Cook-Off hits town, Kelly just wants to get on to a career-changing interview while carefree Linda finds reasons to take her time when bored housewife enters the mix... Director Erin Greenwell takes us on a ride through humorous misadventures complete with snappy dialogue, sympathetic characters and intriguing relationships putting a Sapphic twist on the classic buddy comedy.

Leigh, 15, has troubles. Her jock brother torments her, her estranged father just blew into her life and her mother can't pay the bills. Worst of all, if Leigh loses seat play-offs, she wont be able to sit next to her long developing love interest, Jen! When Leigh's father announces he's leaving and John steals Leigh's diary, tensions within the family erupt. As Leigh falls into becoming her own person, she must reconcile with her brother to pull her existing family together.

Three interwoven stories reveal the traumatic effects of war on the psyches of veterans from different generations.

The Bronx. 1993. A young couple from two completely different worlds, fall in love over a summer that reshapes their lives and the way they view the future ahead of them.

A feature-length documentary that explores the immense changes that occurred for gays, lesbians and transgender people living in the Global South. In the last decade of the 20th Century, a new heightened visibility began spreading throughout the developing world and the battles between families, fundamentalist religions, and governments around sexual and gender identity had begun. But in the West, few people knew about this historic social upheaval, until 52 men on Cairo’s Queen Boat discothèque were arrested for crimes of debauchery. That explosive story focused attention to the lives and trials of gay people coming out in the developing world and the film chronicles those events.

Karen can't believe that she has to work her receptionist gig on a gorgeous Fourth of July. Then a call comes from her long-lost father and sets in motion a crazy chain of events that will change one small town forever. Meanwhile, Megan must decide between the stability of her longtime girlfriend and the thrill of a new love. Young Ray fends off bullies and organized sports to woo the girl he likes. In a little burg like this, you’d better believe everything is connected, which means that pretty soon everyone is mixed up in each other’s business.

Collection of eight lesbian-themed short films.

A New York City-set drama of interlocking stories which occur over a 36-hour period.

A year in the life of two transgender siblings as they navigate puberty, a local beauty pageant, and transitioning in the Trump era.

In the 1990s, Gay and Lesbian activists began stamping their dollars to prove they contributed to the American economy. This is the story of one of those dollars. A routine visit to the local convenience store turns out to be an adventure for Pete, a shy teenager who finds himself the unlikely "best bud" of a giant lesbian dollar bill named Evelyn. When Pete's best friend Ben takes a liking to Evelyn, Pete must figure out a way to spend her in this irreverent teenage bromantic comedy.

"The Golden Age of Hustlers" captures the 1970's gay hustler scenes of pre-HIV/AIDS era on Polk St in San Francisco from an insider's experience.

A passionate teenage misfit, Mary, and washed up gay adult writer, Bobby, meet in a dingy dinerr to help Bobby write his overnight book. While doing so, Mary goes on a twilight journey of self-discovery and empowerment.