Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel

Lux is a trans woman. Rex is a butch queen. They are strangers meeting at a small dive bar in Bushwick, New York. Lux has been stood up. Rex is her bartender. They fall in love at first sight...until they remember their shared past. As the world around them begins to change at a terrifying pace, Lux & Rex are forced to flee their home, traveling through their collapsed country, moving only by night, as their younger selves begin to follow them as well. Past and present blur as Lux and Rex confront the life they might have built together, the love they still carry, and the choices they did and didn’t make that led them back to themselves.

Estrella is at a spiritual crossroads. She becomes the Old Hollywood actress Lupe Velez on the last night of her life to find the answers to her questions, and the two people who hold them are Anna May Wong and Gary Cooper, her lifetime's greatest relationships. Lupe finds me in the garden of dreams spans years in cinematic history to raise the questions: what are the costs to being a queer artist of color in today's industry? What would happen if we found a way of creating ourselves and our work outside of it?"

Miguel is halfway through his first year teaching at a charter school in Los Angeles when he begins dreaming about his long-ago color guard days. The more Miguel rejects the wounded boy in his dreams, the more his present life begins to unravel. Fusing the art of color guard, dance, and poetry, Color Boy is a queer choreo-drama about the power found in healing our younger selves in adulthood

During their last few days of undergrad at an Ivy League school, Danny, a Queer first-generation Latinx student comes to terms with personal and familial traumas as they prepare to graduate. A blending of reality, fantasy and hip-hop/modern dance, When The Party's Over explores the way the mind carries, then heals from trauma in an enhanced state.

Dance sometimes feels like a slow killing of the mind and body." A group of up and coming competitive dancers trying to break into the industry are cast in a famous choreographers farewell performance. They travel to the middle of the woods to develop the work, with every moment of their destructive artistic journey captured for the world."

Enzo has been away in LA trying to make it as an actor for years, and must travel back to Connecticut to reconnect with his family after his mother passes. At the funeral he learns that he has been left custody of Gabe, his younger brother with autism. He takes Gabe on a drive across the country, all the while grieving his mom and other wounds from the past.

Deep in the Guatemalan jungle during the bloody Civil War, a Mayan mother and daughter fight
to stay together as soldiers from the capital and spirits from the past invade their crumbling
village. As the war unfolds, each character must confront their beliefs, whether in their Gods,
their country, or their families, to survive.