Elaine Partnow

Marigold Man

Harry and his roommate, George, live in a shabby Hollywood apartment, existing languidly off the final payments of their unemployment insurance. Despite a 6-month lag in their rent payments and Harry's bad relations with his neighbor, their landlady does not evict them because she loves Harry, who spends his hours daydreaming about planting a 100-yard-wide row of marigolds from Los Angeles to New York for the betterment of mankind.

She's in Portland

Two college friends, now in their thirties, admire each others' lives and feel trapped in their own. Wes, tied to a demanding career and responsibilities to family, extends a work trip to drag his dispirited artist friend Luke to find Luke's "one that got away."

Nickelodeon

In the silent film era, attorney Leo Harrigan and gunslinger Buck Greenway are hired to stop an illegal film production. However, they soon team up with the filmmakers and become important players in the show business industry. Leo learns he has a talent for directing, and Buck's cowboy persona quickly earns him leading-man status — but both men fall for beautiful starlet Kathleen Cooke, leading to a heated personal rivalry.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

The life of an aging black slave, Tom, and the people he interacts with.

Targets

An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.

The Search for Secret Santa

Cub reporter Sofia thinks she's found a Christmas story that will save her career when she discovers a long-lost, undelivered Secret Santa gift addressed from B. to Claire.

Poor Albert and Little Annie

Albert tried to kill his rich snobby mother once. Then he was institutionalized. Now he's escaped. Albert is after his mother again. And he will torture and kill anything that lays in the way...

It's Not a Date

IT'S NOT A DATE tells the story of Carly and Milo, a couple in their twenties on their first date. Although "It's not a date" but more of a casual meet at a local club; it begins as a classic girl meets boy saga with casual conversation that escalates to a night of passion. It evolves, NOT into a romantic partnership or a parting nod, to "bad chemistry" but instead with Carly. Frustrated with a life full of bad dates and believing that Milo is the worse of them she takes Milo on a detour into insanity so extreme he wishes "It's not a date."

It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Murder

In the middle of preparing for her business’ biggest season, Diana Hart learns she inherited an old house from her beloved aunt. Matt, the estate attorney and her former flame, insists she stick around and sort out the details over Christmas break, as he tries to rekindle their old romance. But the longer Diana stays the more she finds clues that suggest her aunt was murdered, and that the culprit might be her handsome companion. Yet the bigger question is–will she survive Christmas?

San Andreas Quake

When a discredited L.A. Seismologist warns of an impending 12.7 earthquake, no one takes her seriously. Now on her own, she races desperately to get her family to safety before the earthquake breaks Los Angeles apart from the mainland.

i-Lived

Josh Fosse is a 20-something guy whose life is going nowhere. His girl left him, his rent is late, and he lacks a real job. He is trying to make it as an app reviewer online and decides to review a self-help app called i-Lived for fun. He signs on and immediately his life turns around. He meets the girl of his dreams and he gets a job offer he can't refuse. Convinced it's him and not the app, he signs out... and loses everything. He signs on again but this time the terms are different, the app is asking him to do things that are out of his moral comfort zone, but which are essential to becoming the success the app tells him he can be.

Busting

Defying orders to lay-off the case, two Los Angeles vice-squad cops go after a local mobster and use unorthodox methods to achieve results.

Slipaway

When a homeless young musician moves into a sailboat with a feisty elderly widow, the two must overcome their differences and haunting pasts to unlock each other's dreams.

Sketches of a Strangler

An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One victim's sister starts looking for him...

My Friends Need Killing

A traumatized Vietnam veteran goes on a killing spree, targeting the men with whom he served in the army.

Delivering Christmas

When a young girl tries to write a letter to Santa, she confesses to the mailman that she can't think of what to ask for after her Grandma passed away and her mother has been really sad. Without family to spend the holiday with, the mailman decides that for the next twelve days, he will deliver surprise gifts to the mom to remind her of the Twelve Days of Christmas.

Terror in the Jungle

Little boy Henry Clayton Jr. survives a plane crash in the untamed Amazon jungle. However, he's discovered by a tribe of vicious savages who plan on sacrificing him. Meanwhile, Henry's father ventures into the jungle to find the missing lad before it's too late.

A Wedding for Christmas

Haley Foster built a big city life in Los Angeles as a top wedding planner at an elite and powerful company run by Ms. Reynolds. When her sister, Angela, insists on getting married Christmas Day on the tree farm in their old hometown of Truxton, Haley is resigned to make her sister’s dreams come true and her parents happy.

Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas!

On a snowy and cold Christmas Eve, Santa Claus accidentally steals the family Dog. So begins an epic journey through the twelve days of Christmas as the family ventures to the North Pole to get their beloved canine back.

Ashes

After the aunt, the "black sheep" of the family, has died, the family is reluctant to accept the cremated remains of their relatives. But when they are struck by a series of mysterious and supernatural events, they must go through hell to get rid of the aunt's angry spirit once and for all.

House of Darkness: New Blood

Inspired by actual events, this thriller unravels the mystery of a single mother who believes a shocking family tragedy was caused by dangerously dark forces.

Alienated

David Bennett, a struggling OCD scientist with father issues, has a life-altering encounter with a UFO and winds up falling for Jordan Waters, a quirky and mysterious female artist who, unbeknownst to him, turns out to be an alien who's being hunted by Ray Watts, a determined conspiracy theorist.

Alone Wolf

After witnessing a woman's boyfriend commit murder outside his home, Jonathan, a man who lives so alone that he hasn't left his house in two years, is drawn out into the dangerous world to save her.

Danny Collins

An ageing hard-living 1970s rock star decides to change his life when he discovers a 40-year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon.

Window Dressing

Danielle gets a new job working for Clara at her clothing store. Danielle is asked to go to the storage room and is locked in the room with what she thinks are mannequins. She soon realizes all too late, that they are something else.

Ghostmates

A down-on-his-luck man discovers that his new apartment is inhabited by a self-absorbed ghost.

What's Up, Doc?

The accidental mix-up of four identical plaid overnight bags leads to a series of increasingly wild and wacky situations.

Misfits

Four broke and single geeks hire a life coach to turn their lives around just weeks before they face hundreds of successful former classmates at their high school reunion.

Incision

Beauty Blogger Alexa Landry only had one fear, plastic surgery. She ultimately had to face this fear when she was kidnapped with her friends by Dr. Cunningham. A deranged plastic surgeon who is obsessed with beautifying his victims.

Howzer

Howzer Cassel and his sister Deborah, feel like run-always long before they one day, at the ages of 12 and 14, scrape up enough money and actually flee to California. "Howzer" was shown at the US Film Festival and at the New American Director Series at the Whitney Museum in New York City.