Mary Page Marlowe by Tracy Letts “Deeply moving. You feel an intense desire for more scenes, more time in your seat, a deeper dive into the life, times and fate of the protagonist you are watching.” — Chicago Tribune
OCTAVIO SOLIS
Mary Page Marlowe leads an unremarkable life. As an accountant in Ohio with two children, few would expect her life to be inordinately intricate or moving. However, it is choices, both mundane and gripping, and where those choices have taken her, that make her life so intimate and surprisingly complicated. A piece about the fragility of a moment and its effects on one’s identity. 6m, 11f, 1g | 90 Minutes | Drama
Santos & Santos
Drugs, gambling, and trafficking fuel the law office of Santos & Santos, and the brothers are quick to incorporate the younger brother after the death of their father. He questions his relationship to his heritage as he sees his brothers so eagerly trying to live the life of the “American.” 8m, 5f | More than 120 minutes | Drama
Se Llama Cristina
A man and woman awake from an apparent drugging night to find their baby missing. They relive their history in order to remember the way back to their child and to try and set things right. This haunting, poetic journey moves through time from past to present to future, and from darkness and doubt to a glimmer of light. 2m, 2f | 90 minutes | Drama
El Paso Blue
Al has to take the rap for his pal Duane’s botched robbery, but before he goes, he leaves his drunken ex-beauty queen wife, Sylvie, in the care of his father, Jefe. In the year he’s gone, Jefe and Sylvie fall in love, and when Al is granted early parole, he enlists Duane in a mad and murderous hunt for the fleeing lovers. 3m, 2f | 90 minutes | Drama
The General from America by Richard Nelson “Exploring the human complexity behind such a reductive term as ‘traitor,’ it exposes the puritanical hypocrisy and corruption that marched beside the heralded courage of our national beginnings.” — The Village Voice An iconoclastic portrait of America’s quintessential traitor, Benedict Arnold, the military hero who nearly gave his life for the cause of American freedom and ended up disclosing vital information to the British. Revealing some of the Founding Fathers’ less than heroic machinations, this is a unique look into American history. 11m, 3f, Flexible Casting | 120 minutes | Historical Drama
Everything You Touch by Sheila Callaghan “A brash, even commercial, elaboration of [Callaghan’s] universal themes in their most complex and daredevil manifestations yet.” — The Hollywood Reporter Victor is a ruthless fashion designer in the 1970s at the top of his game. Esme, his glamorous protégé and muse, is pushed aside when an ordinary Midwestern woman inspires Victor to make his artistry accessible to the masses. A generation later, a woman grappling with a healthy dose of self-loathing must wrestle her own family demons to find her way through the world of fashion that won’t give a woman her size a second look. 2m, 6f | 120 minutes | Dark Comedy
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