University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts

A rookie Air Force drone pilot finds himself increasingly attached to a target he watches from halfway around the world.

In 1936 Harlem, the first all-Black cast to perform Shakespeare's 'Macbeth', directed by a young and arrogant Orson Welles, battles to make it to opening night.

New Year's Eve 1999 finds college-bound Clark and Trevor concerned about the future of their friendship, and a request for Clark to be Trevor's wingman ensures things will never be the same again.

On a desolate farm, a couple's prayers are answered after a visitor offers them a sinister deal. Blinded by their joy, they struggle to realize that what they once desired may lead to their own unraveling.

After a tumultuous rise to power, the first Muslim Sultana of Delhi fights to guide her kingdom while the people closest to her plot against her.

After basketball practice, a group of high school girls get ready to go home. Between conversations about next week's match and boys, June must navigate her budding attraction towards one of her teammates, Clementine.

For Los Angeles natives living in the early 1900s, bicycles and streetcars shared the road as our primary modes of transportation. But the arrival of the freeway effectively wiped them out. Today, a collective of cycling communities fight for protected bike lanes and road safety, determined to bring a new era of mobility justice to the city.

A young man in Oakland, California, wakes with a heavy heart and decides to take a walk through the neighborhood to the local barbershop.

Two high-school, lesbian girlfriends deal with the intrusion of two teenage boys, jealousy, betrayal and drugs.

A little girl uses a voodoo doll to get rid of her mother's date.

A lonely Singaporean death row guard tries to help a young Australian convicted of drug trafficking accept her fate despite a bizarre contradiction - he is her executioner.

After tragedy strikes, a meek Ruby Oliver enters a broken VR game for a last chance to see the dead. Little does she know that this game treats all girls as a virus as she fights to save herself.

Jan Wiener is a young Czech Jew struggling to survive at the outset of Nazi occupation during World War II.

A businessman lives out his daily routine until he meets unexpected stress in the form of his apartment building's elevator.

After saving an abused pit bull, a troubled Brighton Beach teenanger who makes ends meet through crime while raising his little brother, must protect the dog from its nefarious owners.

When a high school senior, Chris, gets in trouble with the West L.A. police for joy riding in stolen cars, his wealthy but neglectful dad hires Chris's older brother Lance to spend time with him and keep him out of trouble. Lance is in the underworld, running guns, so caring for Chris starts out as a good cover. Then, he warms to his brother, and the two develop a strong bond; Chris gets serious about school and starts to come out of his shell. But, will the relationship be strong enough to weather pressures from Lance's business, Chris's discovery that dad is paying Lance for the care, and Lance's enjoyment of female companionship?

Izzy struggles with the decision to reconnect with an old friend. As she gives into her jealousy for her friend’s success, she makes a decision that her subconscious does not let her get away with so easily.

This is James Gray's student film from the University of Southern California. A private investigator who is hired to bring a man's 16-year-old runaway daughter back home has second thoughts about his job when he sees the man beat his daughter.

A toxic movie star's personal assistant goads the actor into having a meltdown on the set of a Biblical epic.

Overcome with grief, a rural woodworker builds a coffin to join his wife.