Max Carpenter

In 1987 Oakland, a mysterious force guides The Town's underdogs in four interconnected tales: teen punks defend their turf against Nazi skinheads, a rap duo battles for hip-hop immortality, a weary henchman gets a shot at redemption, and an NBA All-Star settles the score.

A young girl and her brother are awoken by their father and loaded into the car on an early morning in 2008. As they road trip across the American West, she discovers the truth about their seemingly spontaneous journey.

During a lockdown, Lola, a struggling artist, is forced to wait it out with her brother Louis and his crazy roommate Cage. After a mysterious batch of seeds arrive threatening to change the course of existence, Lola must fight to survive a surreal landscape of external and internal forces.

A widowed teacher from Los Angeles is recruited to a small Appalachian college and falls in love with a deeply religious local woman. The unlikely love is torn apart by one's commitment to faith and the other's devotion to reason.

Lucy and Lucien are two childhood friends who share a deeply troubled past and struggle to maintain their sanity and sobriety as they cut their teeth in the New York City arts & theater scene. As their breakout moment arrives, both are forced to grapple with a legacy of childhood trauma, addiction, and loss. They must rely on their chosen family of artists and sex workers to help bring them through their dark night of the soul.

When the nest gets too lonely to bear, a middle-aged mother hires a prostitute for the evening. But when intimacy overwhelms her, she has the young man role play her son's life, beginning with his birth.

Welcome to St. Sebastian's Quiet Academy for Disreputable Youth. Here you will learn about character...unless you're Isaac.

After his mother’s unexpected death, a teenage car thief, Matías, is sent to live with the abusive father that they ran away from thirteen years earlier.

After receiving fertile eggs from a donor, Rebecca and Caleb are finally able to have a child and start a family. Several years later, a strange woman appears in their life, and is oddly drawn to their daughter. The egg donor has returned–and she wants what is “rightfully” hers.

Marcus and Jayson are avid pot smokers who dream of better lives, but when they find out their old high school teacher wins a huge sum in a lottery they come up with a plan that will change their lives forever.

In the criminal justice system, sexually-based offenses are considered especially heinous. In New York City, the dedicated detectives who investigate these vicious felonies are members of an elite squad known as the Special Victims Unit. These are their stories.

Since working as an adult film star and escort since his early twenties, Ryan Crosby, aka Rod Driver, has had a pretty easy life when you think about it. But what happens when you hit forty and the clients aren't calling as much as they used to and doing porn has, well... lost its appeal. Suddenly you begin to see things a bit clearer and you begin to ask yourself questions. What am I doing with my life? Is there something else I can do? What am I passionate about? You realize that you need to make a change. But how do you move forward from the life you no longer want? After an awkward meeting with a career counselor, who tries to extract information about his job history, Ryan heads home and the weight of his situation hits him hard.