Tom Musca

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

An East L.A working stiff is bullied by his wife to run for a City Council position against a well-organized recognized political figure.

A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.

When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.

The dilapidated former house/headquarters of South Central LA's Black Panthers is at the center of a clash between radical ideals of the past, and 1980s Buppie efforts to use white-owned platforms (banks, media) to uplift the community.

A young single mother, Mercedes, is about to marry solid, dependable Frank, when a dashing aviator, Clay, comes into her life. But when pilot Clay crash-lands on a small, remote island he sends the inhabitants into a tailspin.

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

Jaime Escalante is a mathematics teacher in a school in a hispanic neighbourhood. Convinced that his students have potential, he adopts unconventional teaching methods to try and turn gang members and no-hopers into some of the country's top algebra and calculus students.

An East L.A working stiff is bullied by his wife to run for a City Council position against a well-organized recognized political figure.

An East L.A working stiff is bullied by his wife to run for a City Council position against a well-organized recognized political figure.

A Mexican-American master chef and father to three daughters has lost his taste for food but not for life.

When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.

When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.

The dilapidated former house/headquarters of South Central LA's Black Panthers is at the center of a clash between radical ideals of the past, and 1980s Buppie efforts to use white-owned platforms (banks, media) to uplift the community.

A young single mother, Mercedes, is about to marry solid, dependable Frank, when a dashing aviator, Clay, comes into her life. But when pilot Clay crash-lands on a small, remote island he sends the inhabitants into a tailspin.

A working class family moves into a mansion after discovering the death of its wealthy owner. Mistaken identity and a rags to riches comedy of errors ensue.

A working class family moves into a mansion after discovering the death of its wealthy owner. Mistaken identity and a rags to riches comedy of errors ensue.

As passions surge and secrets unravel, a lethal triangle emerges between a wheelchair-dependent Ex-Surfer and a Dominican migrant couple in search of a new life. What begins as a quest for refuge swiftly morphs into a dangerous dance of desire, cloaked in layers of deceit and greed against a backdrop of unrivaled island beauty.

As passions surge and secrets unravel, a lethal triangle emerges between a wheelchair-dependent Ex-Surfer and a Dominican migrant couple in search of a new life. What begins as a quest for refuge swiftly morphs into a dangerous dance of desire, cloaked in layers of deceit and greed against a backdrop of unrivaled island beauty.

As passions surge and secrets unravel, a lethal triangle emerges between a wheelchair-dependent Ex-Surfer and a Dominican migrant couple in search of a new life. What begins as a quest for refuge swiftly morphs into a dangerous dance of desire, cloaked in layers of deceit and greed against a backdrop of unrivaled island beauty.

An undocumented immigrant, Roberto, seeks a way to become lawful, but all efforts are put on hold when he becomes a new father at the onset of the US government's 'Zero Tolerance' child separation policy at the US / Mexico border.

A police detective and his partner make some unusual discoveries about the nature of time and space.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film & Television Archive. Multi Camera view of a “theater of the absurd” play (including an above-head surveillance camera). Inside a fast food restaurant, a white British man joins the table of a Black American couple, asking for a cigarette and french fries. He brings conflict to the couple, who begin to fight over existential questions about perception, sanity, and television..“I watch television more than it watches me”