Los Angeles Film Festival 2013

In search of post-collegiate life experiences, Samuel travels to work in the apple orchards of Oregon but finds himself out of place amongst migrant workers and God-fearing churchgoers. Based on the short story by David Sedaris.

Pierre Dulaine, an internationally renowned ballroom dancer, is fulfilling his life-long dream of returning to his birthplace, Jaffa, to teach Palestinian and Israeli children to dance together; the film explores the stories of four children forced to confront issues of identity, segregation and racism, as they dance with their enemies.

The fragile survivor of an attempted double murder has never faced her horrific past, until a parole hearing reveals her attacker may not be guilty and the real killer is closer than she thinks.

As his two best friends plan to leave for college, a Lakota teen wonders if his future on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is pre-ordained when a tragedy forces him to take dangerous action to protect his family.

When an ambitious prosecutor has a one-night stand to even the score with her cheating husband, she unwittingly picks a sociopath who threatens her professional and personal life.

Studio H is a documentary that spends one year in the life of one of America’s most innovative classrooms. The film features designer-activists Emily Pilloton and Matt Miller and proves that one of the best ways to make high school kids care about their schoolwork is to build their education around the things that matter most to them.

Studio H touches on some of the most important themes that our country is wrestling with at the moment: the future of education, the plight of rural America, and the ability of local communities to solve their own problems on their own terms. The film also shows that despite ever-dwindling financial resources, challenges of almost any shape or size can be addressed using thoughtful design and creative problem solving techniques.

Mourning his great love, a Japanese janitor works a cattle ranch in the American Southwest. For him and for a family of struggling ranchers, the past is as inescapable as the future is uncertain.

A young Air Force drone operator struggles to balance the stresses of going to war for the first time with the challenges of being a good father and husband, as he commutes each day between suburban family life and the war he fights by remote control.

Set against the backdrop of three unique retirement communities, Untitled Gay Retiree Documentary captures the experiences of several gay seniors as they navigate the adventures, challenges and surprises of their “golden years.”