Janet Borrus

11-year-old Akeelah Anderson has a way with words. After winning her schoolwide spelling bee, she decides to enter the competition, despite her classmates' derision and the antipathy of her mother Tanya. Thanks to the efforts of her teacher Dr. Larabee, she reaches the finals. As she gets to know her fellow competitors, Akeelah realizes that coming first isn't everything in life.

When a young risk analyst at a major US oil company in 1982 learns that the climate research department has just discovered a rapid rise in global temperatures, he has to decide on which side of history he wants to be.

Housebound with a broken ankle, a stubborn middle-aged woman reluctantly accepts assistance from a quirky, metaphysically inspiring teenager.

When new management unexpectedly enforces drug testing, Lola and Tyler— two lazy slackers 'working' at a mall makeup store—are forced to figure out a way to pass their drug test and and save their jobs.

Based on a true story, Auschwitz Bagel is a short film that explores three sibling's dynamic as they are forced to reckon with their father's new sexuality and familial dysfunction at a particularly awkward time - their great aunt's funeral.

A high school perfectionist campaigns to win student council president as her best friend films her journey in this mockumentary comedy.

An impulsive millennial mensch who gets possessed by the spirit of his dead Yiddish grandma.

The week before her Orthodox Jewish wedding, Elisheva escapes to a rented room in the hills outside of Los Angeles to clear her head. While dodging calls from her mother and fiancé, Elisheva begins to form a life-changing bond with Meredith, the eccentric divorcee who owns the house she’s staying in.

Three very different Los Angeles teenage girls find themselves pregnant and dealing with poverty, drugs and confusion. Shanika (Tamara LaSeon Bass) has a drug addict for a mother and is currently living in a foster home. Araceley (Tonatzin Mondragon) tries living with her loser and broke boyfriend after her parents kick her out of their house out of shame. Tina (Keely Vint), born to a teenage mother herself, isn't sure who the father of her child is.