LOGLINE

A young Black woman returns to the Caribbean island where she grew up and finds herself confronting an ancient female witch – a horrifying creature that might have a family connection.

NARRATIVE FEATURE: HORROR

OVERVIEW

Abby Charles' life was marked by tragedy when her father killed her mother and himself with a machete when she was a child growing up in the Caribbean islands. Raised by her domineering grandmother Amani to take her place in the family’s hugely successful businesses, Abby instead moved to Chicago to pursue her talent for painting.

Now Abby has come home to take part in the Nine Night celebration, a traditional Caribbean ritual of food and music to free the spirits of the dead, for her childhood nanny Manette. There to be reunited with Grandmother Amani, Bishop, the severe major domo of the Charles estate and Nandi, Manette's daughter and Abby's childhood best friend. Abby is accompanied by her live-in boyfriend David and their friends Bai, Javier and Emily who are eager to take part in the Nine Night, ostensibly an all-night rave. But in returning home Abby risks reigniting the profound hold the islands’ evil superstitions have over her – beginning with the monstrous Soucou, a terrifying witch of lethal power who appears as an old woman by day and sheds her skin by night to become a bewitching but blood-covered temptress seeking human victims to drain of their “life elixir.”

LOGLINE

A sassy drag queen detective and her super smart, man thirsty sidekick are hired to solve the 20 year-old murder of a has-been movie star at her haunted mansion. While her greedy family searches for a previously unknown cache of cash, the duo attempt to uncover the shocking truth buried under decades of twisted familial sludge.

NARRATIVE FEATURE: PARODY COMEDY LGBTQ+

OVERVIEW

Spoiled rotten has-been movie star/singer Melora Belmont is murdered by a masked culprit at her palatial estate Gashwood Manor while having phone sex. On the 20th anniversary of the still unsolved crime, Gregory Anderson Leach, Melora’s gay widower and Scroatie, his lawyer/wrestling coach/sexual dominator, invite Gregory’s phony, snobbish daughter Laura, her conservative husband Creighton and Melora’s best “friend,” actress Dorothy Ottinger (accompanied by her devoted assistant Muff) to the estate. Laura’s teenaged psychiatrist and former lover, Dr. Ernesto Panacea, Melora’s trash talking, wheelchair bound mother Eunice and her foul mouthed sisters Flora and Dora are also on hand. Gregory announces that a just discovered page from Melora’s diary reveals she hid a fortune in cash somewhere inside the mansion and invites all to help him search for the loot.

At the same time, Scroatie’s hired drag queen detective Brazzie Charlevoix and her super smart, man thirsty sidekick Dill to track down Melora’s killer. The duo pretend to be cabaret entertainment while they investigate. Brazzie bears a striking resemblance to Melora which might scare her murderer into making a mistake and being discovered. Secrets are revealed and several guests are killed in comedic ways during the weekend, at the end of which Melora’s hidden fortune and murderer are both discovered by Brazzie. Melora’s ghost also plays a part in uncovering the sordid family intrigue.

LOGLINE

A teenage boy growing up in a small town in the mid-1970s is determined to graduate with his high school class when his family moves midway through his senior year. His parents agree but only if he lives with their conservative pastor and his wife. Given the teenager’s closeted gay sexuality, all Hell is bound to break loose.

NARRATIVE FEATURE: DRAMA/LGBTQ+

OVERVIEW

At the beginning of what promises to be Stevie’s fabulous senior year – 1975 – his mother tells him the family is moving. Stevie throws a fit but calms down when he’s allowed to stay with Ed and Marge, the rigid Presbyterian minister and his passive-aggressive, controlling wife. That’s when the trouble starts. As the acknowledged star of the dramatics club, Stevie is adored within his inner circle for his wicked wit, artistic talents and musical gifts. But outside his tightknit group he’s seen as an effeminate, melodramatic dreamer – an embarrassment who is tolerated simply because of his parents’ status in the conservative little Nebraska town. Add in Stevie’s closeted gay sexuality and his close friendship with Laura, the school’s bad girl, druggie tramp who has a penchant for violent bad boys and all Hell is bound to break loose before graduation day. Based on a true story.

LOGLINE

After surviving a massacre by a supernatural entity as a child, a woman returns to the haunted house where the event occurred determined to confront the source of her trauma.

NARRATIVE FEATURE: HORROR

OVERVIEW

During a visit to her dotty aunts at their brooding mansion Raven’s Nest when she was seven, Lenore Waldron survived a massacre by a spectral monster during a scrying session that killed both her aunts and several other participants. Now, in her mid-30s, whip-smart, love scarred, and armed with years of study into the paranormal, Lenore has inherited the long uninhabited mansion. She intends to confront and destroy the supernatural creature and cure her long-standing trauma. Joining Lenore is her sharp-witted, longtime gay best friend Dennis Brandon, Mrs. Halloran, the other survivor of the Raven's Nest Massacre, and famed psychic TV host Peter Von Albrecht. Lenore is also determined to clear the name of the home’s original owner – the eccentric spinster Corwinna Raven, her distant relative – who was charged with the brutal murders of her brother, cousin and a local girl. These horrific killings were the beginning of the mansion’s evil reputation.