Deborah Hedwall

Worth

Kenneth Feinberg, a powerful D.C. lawyer appointed Special Master of the 9/11 Fund, fights off the cynicism, bureaucracy, and politics associated with administering government funds and, in doing so, discovers what life is worth.

Patient

Adrian Irons -- a razor-witted, bisexual, self-destructive standardized patient -- uses his unique ability to recreate the symptoms of any disease to help train new doctors. Things get messy, however, when the symptoms start to stick.

Dirt

Dolores Del Rosario is an illegal immigrant from El Salvador who works as a maid for wealthy New Yorkers. Treated patronizingly whenever she isn't simply ignored, she witnesses all her privileged employers' quirks and indiscretions, including affairs and other secrets. When she loses her highest-paying job because the family's political ambitions preclude employing an illegal immigrant, Dolores' neighbors, led by her best friend, Mona, come to her aid. (Cinetopia Film Festival)

After Yang

When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.

The Loss of Nameless Things

In 1978 Oakley Hall lll was a promising playwright on the verge of national recognition when a mysterious fall from a bridge took his artistic life away. He suffered horrific head injuries, was hospitalized nearly a year and incapicitated much longer. The Loss of Nameless Things is the haunting tale of Hall's fall from grace and what happens when, twenty five years later, a theater company stages the very play he was writing the night he fell. (Bill Rose)

You Don't Know Jack

Controversy and legal problems follow Dr. Jack Kevorkian as he advocates assisted suicide.

Better Living

A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardship.

The Ambulance

One minute Josh Baker is meeting the woman of his dreams. The next, he's watching her whisked away by a mysterious ambulance that never arrives at the local hospital. Doubted by the police, Josh is forced to carry on a one-man crusade that leads to a discovery more frightening than his worst fears.

House of Teeth

"In the aftermath of her divorce, a woman in midlife sets out to find her bearings -- and her mojo -- as she confronts the challenges and surprises of life beyond marriage."

The Swerve

The dark secrets of Holly's seemingly perfect life are exposed when an unwanted intruder spins her life out of control forever.

Everyday Saturday

Evelyn, a recently retired widow, masks her paralyzing worry about the future with the comfort of routine. But when her son, Asher, moves back home after graduating from college, his parallel anxieties amplify Evelyn's internal crisis.

Shadrach

In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is a violation of strict Virginia law.

Alone in the Dark

A quartet of murderous psychopaths break out of a mental hospital during a power blackout and lay siege to their doctor's house.

Sessions

High-priced call girl Lee Churchill examines her life via therapy 'sessions'. Her double life is unknown to her parents, sister and the 'straight' man with whom she falls in love.

Under Heat

Dean is 36 and recently diagnosed as HIV positive. He has come home to tell his mother and his older brother Milo.

Crime 101

When an elusive thief whose high-stakes heists unfold along the iconic 101 freeway in Los Angeles eyes the score of a lifetime, with hopes of this being his final job, his path collides with a disillusioned insurance broker who is facing her own crossroads. Determined to crack the case, a relentless detective closes in on the operation, raising the stakes even higher.