Karina Billini

The plastic surgery procedure, Brazilian Butt Lifts( BBL’s), are sweeping the wallets of the women in Miami. And the staff at the post-BBL recovery house, Apple Bottom Spa, hopes to ride on this wave. Krissy, Winnie, and Caro are just regular women, with their own experiences with butt augmentation, who are responsible for the caretaking of multiple patients that walk through their doors. When a humble childhood neighbor, Andrea, and a high-strung black-fishing social media influencer, Belinda, arrives as new patients, Apple Bottom Spa struggle to keep both women and the house afloat. An intimate examination of female-to-female caregiving, body dysmorphia, and what it means when the brown/black female body is both ostracized and commodified by the masses.

Sammy and Amena can't leave each other the hell alone. They've tried. Are they destiny or bad habit? Brighton Beach and their unborn baby want to know. Sammy drives a runaway Uber, but today, Amena refuses to leave his car. A Brooklyn love story about joy rides and a boundless loneliness only the end of the world can bring.

Lucia de los Santos has traded her strict homeland, The Dominican Republic, for little “Russia by the Sea”— Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. And only one thing seems to make her happy: watching “I LOVE LUCY” returns for the irresistible Lucille Ball. Soon enough, Lucia only goes by “Lucy,” only wears her hair in a bright red updo, and is in a constant pursuit for fame and the American Dream. But money and men keep getting in her way—there’s Ramon, her Puerto Rican Ricardo and Maxim, a Chernobyl survivor and Lucia lover. A poetic and lifelong exploration of what it means to be an immigrant woman trying to be seen in a country larger than life.

It is the year 1998. Hurricane Georges has devastated the Dominican Republic, and
Dominican immigrant, Dr. Leo Domenech, has finally opened his first "fancy
Manhattan" medical office in Washington Heights. However, when he fails to build a
clientele, Leo turns to drastic measures to make "American Dream money" at the
expense of his license, the Hurricane Georges victims, and his loving family.

News reporter Kalia Pierre is moving up from Brooklyn Twelve to Jet-5, where their stories are
bigger, brighter, and hitting the nation. She is ready to impress her new co-workers, until they
start to bump up against her Trinidadian roots. Will she fight for the spotlight or fade into the
background?

Punta Cana. Boys Trip. Three lonely I.T. technicians from America go on a quest to find themselves a "hot Dominicana" to take back with them to the States.

Trinidadian-American community leader, Keami La Croix, has made a name for herself in Crown Heights’s West Indie community as the "Black Robin Hood." But when she decides to create a campaign to reform the violence-stricken, yet very popular Brooklyn J’ouvert — the pre-dawn celebration that originated from slaves impersonating their masters’ masquerade balls — she is met by severe resistance from the black community that once loved her. Ah Sweeter Lime is a poetic and gritty examination of cultural identity, gentrification, and the extent we will take to preserve where we come from.