Creative Nonfiction (2009)

Dre Shaw reluctantly puts his life as a social media rising star on hold to return home for a family wedding, only to go from family liability to savior.

A unit of female Israeli soldiers at a remote desert base bide their time as they count down the minutes until they can return to civilian life.

The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.

A bullied adolescent experiences a turning point summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.

In the summer of 1991, a sheltered teenage boy comes of age during a wild summer he spends on Cape Cod getting rich from selling pot to gangsters, falling in love for the first time, partying and eventually realizing that he is in over his head.

After she's left at the altar, a workaholic advertising executive ends up on her Caribbean honeymoon cruise with her estranged father.

A melodramatic black comedy presenting the true story of Alfred Benning's murder of his wife, Betty, in 1970s Wellington. The film follows a passive-aggressive man (Simon O'Conner) spiraling toward psychosis as his emotionally abusive wife (Geraldine Brophy) threatens to cast his beloved dog out of the house.

A poet who starts a health-conscious food stand finds support from his friends, as well as a potential love match with one of his customers. But will unexpected complications jeopardize his dreams of a hot dog-free future?

A man travels in time from the year 2027 to relive his school years and to correct a bad decision.

This is a story of a family and two intruders.

A grudge between two neighboring restaurateurs soon turns to love.

A haunting portrait of a down and out comedian, part tale of redemption, love story and classic America family saga. A slice of life straight from the glass that cuts us.

Angie is determined to spend Christmas alone but her usual commuter ride turns into a Christmas train that drops her off in her home town in 2011.

Oliver Hayes, an aspiring animator whose confidence is at a low point, meets the captivating and impulsive Lily Blush, who encourages him to drop everything and go with her to Northern California in the hopes of fulfilling his fantasy of working for Pixar Animation Studios. As they travel up the coast, Oliver falls deeply in love but upon making certain startling discoveries he must decide if he wants to face reality or stay in dreamworld.

From different worlds, Ellie and Thuy form a powerful bond that helps Ellie cope with the hardships of adjusting to her new life in the states.

Three parents try to stop their daughters from losing their virginity on prom night.

When a large Iranian-American family gathers, a family secret is uncovered that catapults the estranged mother and daughter into an exploration of the past, and to discover they are more alike than they know.

For first time since her divorce, Akosua, an African schoolteacher, is in love again.

After two years hiding out in his grandfather's retirement residence, Stock Burton is forced back into his small town where he must come to terms with the troubled past that led to his early retirement.

Ben and Alan, two misfit best friends incapable of growing up, find direction for their lives by taking in an abandoned child and creating the family they've always needed.

A sexually frustrated Palestinian-American agrees to marry an Israeli woman for a Green Card, triggering a war at home with his parents, who will stop at nothing to divorce him from his new wife.

Lucas Simons, an 11 year-old filmmaker, is obsessed with death after the loss of his brother. When Lucas accidentally captures a mysterious presence in one of his films, he inadvertently becomes a YouTube phenomenon, and must learn to live life in the spotlight while also learning how to once again start living life to its fullest.

As the 2011 Occupy Wall Street movement rages, Robert and John, two New York investment bankers who are angered by the noise, smell and hassle of the protests venture into the park to let the "One Percent" be heard through their own counter movement, Occupy Occupy Wall Street. As they shout, picket and annoy their way to immediate press, their boss, Dustin, tries to shut them down due to the unwanted publicity their firm is receiving. Just as the curtain is about to fall on Robert and John's attention grabbing scheme (not to mention their own careers), the Board of the Bridgeport Youth Foundation, a potential client that they've been chasing for some time, comes to their salvation. Aside from their cause of helping underprivileged kids, the Bridgeport Youth Foundation's Board are Occupy-haters and applaud Robert and John's shenanigans. With their counter movement gaining momentum, Robert suddenly finds himself moved by the actual needs of the underprivileged kids associated with the Bridgeport Youth Foundation. Meanwhile, John is driven by his own desire to crawl out from under the influence of his powerful father -- a banker who sides with Mayor Bloomberg's political move to support the Occupy protestors. Despite the disapproval of their families, friends and co-workers and the growing physical threats from a mysterious tormentor, the bankers bumble their way into becoming the poster boys of the country's "One Percent." When the Bridgeport Youth Foundation deal falls through, Robert and John learn that they're not the "One Percent" they've made themselves out to be. Poorer for their efforts, but with a new appreciation of their self-worth, they leave the park and their cause behind. However, when a last minute cash infusion from an unwelcome ally offers the deal new hope, Robert and John must decide between going against their own hard-won principles or taking the payout that's offered them and finally entering the shadowy, rarified ranks of the "One Percent."

A public-relations agent leaves London for a seemingly idyllic village in the Cotswolds, and soon finds herself a suspect in a murder case involving a poisoned quiche.

Based on an original screenplay, THESE HOPELESS SAVAGES stars Matt Dellapina ('Safe', 'The Quitter') alongside Sean Christopher Lewis ('God's Country'), MacKenzie Meehan ('The Wolf Of Wall Street') and newcomer Maria Vorhis in this bromantic comedy/drama co-directed by Sean Christopher Lewis and Kaitlyn Busbee ('Molly's Girl'). When big news comes in for the constant bachelor Shawn, he makes it a mission to visit everyone who has shunned him for years. This includes his old friend Greg - a children's musician living in the cozy, domestic confines of Brooklyn. After the two old friends hit some hilarious re-acquainting pains, they soon hit the American road for a trip that will show them the gifts and the costs of real friendship.

Riley lands herself a new job via a case of mistaken identity, and her first assignment is to accompany her new boss on a trip to save a failing toy factory.

Following the death of his wife, professional chef Cheng travels with his young son to a remote village in Finland to connect with an old Finnish friend he once met in Shanghai.

A family of five heads to Granddad's big 75th-birthday party at an uncle's estate in rural Scotland. The parents are separated and hope their three kids won't mention it. The kids love, can talk with, and would do anything for Granddad.

A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.

A student at Oxford University finds himself drawn into the world of a charming and aristocratic classmate, who invites him to his eccentric family's sprawling estate for a summer never to be forgotten.

A bickering gay couple must suddenly deal with the unexpected task of raising a 10-year-old boy.

A small town gorilla joins a local TV program where a series of on-air mishaps send him on a journey of self-discovery.

A re-imagining of Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice" set in modern day, rural Virginia with Elizabeth Bennet as a man. Ben Bennet is an affluent but seemingly arrogant attorney who unknowingly insults Lee Darcy, a detached factory worker wrongly charged with domestic abuse. Both men form an immediate dislike for each other which becomes a significant problem when Ben falls in love with Lee.

Two high school outsiders join forces in an attempt to overtake the local school board. Guided by their families, they enter the perilous word of politics and, in the process, learn a thing or two about love.

On the eve of retirement a middle class, judgmental snob discovers her husband has been having an affair with her best friend and is forced into exile with her bohemian sister who lives on an impoverished inner-city council estate.

A lonely woman living in Tokyo decides to take an English class where she discovers her alter ego, Lucy.