Dane Futrell

An eclectic group of young train hoppers depart San Francisco in hopes of reaching Myrtle Beach in time for the annual Hobo Festival. As a new member joins the pack, tensions surrounding the purpose of homeless youth come to rise. Equally plagued by vices such as fentanyl abuse and past domestic traumas, the dirty kids must come to terms with themselves, and the journey that may destroy them.

Crow is the new barback at the Limestone, a storied speakeasy known for keeping alcoholics of all kinds coming back for more, endlessly. Former employee Leek, boasting a steadfast sobriety while chugging Jack Daniels, convinces Crow to take his first drink behind the bar. They fantasize about nightmares, filtered water, and the tantalizing bar manager, Tess. When Tess brings her new boyfriend to meet her unique work family, the rising tensions showcase the consequences of drunken manipulation, which erupt in various forms including demonic possession and concealed keys to eternal success.

Ash is in charge of Two Ways, a skatepark within a modern purgatory. His task is simple. Decide the fate of a thousand misled souls who died too soon. They must either ascend the staircase into eternity or descend to the worst hell imaginable: Florida. Nearing the end of his task, Ash is confronted by trauma both in the form of Puzzle, an ambitious cultist with a murderous past, and Shade, Ash's manipulative ex-lover. Dead in Two Ways is an original take on queer trauma, and investigates the existential presence of humanity after we are dead and gone.

In an absurdist take on the rituals of American love, the complex and manipulative relationship between Silas and Jane crumbles to pieces while generational trauma and the psychosis of parenthood drive them together and apart simultaneously.

Ricky and Louis are two dedicated dock workers. They fell out of the sky eternities ago, and now they count ducks and send them off into the afterlife. They were told by Sir, the big boss man, that each fallen duck represents a human body leaving Earth for good. Ricky begins to have epiphanies relating to the true nature of their once-meaningful, now-meaningless task, while Louis pines over his fascination with conventional capitalistic desires: a family, kids, a future.

The Bishop family truly personifies the “Florida Man.” Extreme, disastrous, misunderstood. Their daughter Cameron has been dreamily drawn to the murky Wekiva River since being attacked by an alligator there a year ago. Now missing, her brother Russel attempts to motivate his frustratingly passive parents to save her.

Two best friends stranded in a northern Texas wasteland meet a man who speaks of Micronesia, surfing, and the tasks of the damned.

Bo manufactures women in an effort to perfect the modern relationship. He tells Viv, his companion, to sit down and smile while indulging in daily "activity time" and obeying his plethora of rules. When she starts dancing and inquiring about Bo's safe-guarded pantry, questions about the consequences of male-dominated social paradigms arise.

Through a lusty haze of half-smoked cigarettes, X and Y come to terms with their situation in a skyrise thirty floors up in the dead of winter.

It's lemon season in the abstract American home. Sam returns home from college to a push-up contest with his father and an obligation to pick the lemons from his mother's lemon tree.