M. D. Schaffer

For her Doctoral Dissertation, Psychology major Olivia Hardgrove invites her long-term client, Reed Erwin, and Reed's mother, Delilah, to participate in a public therapy session that's mediated using tarot cards. However, as the cards are pulled and the mother and child relive fraught memories, they find that the only way to salvage their relationship is by reckoning with their past to build their future.

Amidst the COVID-19 Pandemic & Black Lives Matter Protests of 2020, Wayne Pensky, an anxious new Black father, feels the stressors as he considers the future that his newborn son will face. When his White partner, Maggie, leaves him with their child to visit her mother, he's visited by three ghosts of Black Liberation past: LD, a 21-year-old leader of the Attica revolt; Anna J. Cooper, a famed civil rights activist; and John Brown, a white radical abolitionist. They come to Wayne, declaring he's the next great liberator of African Americans, and lead him on a journey that forces him to face the question, "What is he willing to sacrifice for the liberation of his people?"

In this adaptation of Agatha Christie's "And Then There Were None," 9 African American long-term friends go to a villa in the Sonoran Desert to celebrate the recent financial success of entrepreneur Owen Christianson. However, when Owen doesn't come because of the recent murder of his twin brother, the situation turns perilous when a mysterious assailant appears, trapping and killing each of the friends for the skeletons that they've each kept in the closet. As their numbers dwindle, they try to unite and discover why they're being murdered, who is behind the vicious killings, and, more importantly, try to survive.

In a nostalgic reunion, three long-term friends gather for a night of fun. It’s the 10th anniversary since Molly, Kyle, and Benji decided to turn their backs on their Catholic faith in high school. The festivities and recounting of stories enrapture Kyle’s new roommate, Sky. However, the usually private Kyle has recently taken on painting his patron saint, Saint Maria Goretti (the Catholic Saint of forgiveness and sexual assault victims), more and more. While divulging spicy memories and gossip, old wounds and secrets are unearthed in Molly’s mission to figure out what's behind his art. After she abrasively confronts him, Kyle secludes himself to his room. Sky, in turn, questions the legitimacy of the trio’s friendship. They accuse Molly of using her assertiveness to make Benji and Kyle follow her desires for the past eighteen years, a sentiment Benji finds himself agreeing with. As Molly defends herself, Benji reveals that he was groomed by Molly’s older brother, Chance, as a pre-teen.

During a discussion later that night, Kyle reveals he knew about Benji’s assault. Exhausted by the day’s events and the decade-plus years of carrying his own secret, he tells Sky a woman from his church sexually assaulted him, and when he tried to speak out about it, he was silenced by his pastor. Sky consoles him but shares that maybe to heal, he has to return to what hurts him. Kyle goes into confession to confess the anger he’s been holding onto. There, he comes to learn forgiveness isn’t always an active apology, but it is to let go and live one’s life for themselves.

An African-American rodeo clown deals with parenthood, lineage, and a business where every performance, he's looks into the eyes of a large behemoth.

Stoners. Girlfriends. Lovecraft. Two roommates, in the midst of an existential exploration of the art of the joint, debate the dimensions of how the ghosts of our passion’s pasts affect our artistic futures.