Awards: 2022

Ava (Britt Lower) is a square. When her fiancé admits to loving the free spirited Luna, Ava joins a local circus in an act of wild abandon. But Ava’s heartache isn’t easily ignored, and feeds her fear that she’s not cut out for being “wild too”.

An inspiring limited series following three Chicago high schoolers who use slam poetry to navigate the outcomes of a tragic event.

Darryl Walker is a lost soul with a handlebar moustache. An aspiring long distance runner, he recently collapsed during his latest marathon. A YouTube video of his efforts went viral and now Darryl's an internet sensation for all the wrong reasons.

A Handful of Rust is a volatile coming of age story about redefining life after death, salvaging beauty from decay, and collaborative music-making as a vessel for perseverance through the continuous onslaught of harsh realities.

When a foul-mouthed, 80-year-old grandma gets dumped and booted from her boyfriend's brownstone, she's forced to return to the rent-stabilized apartment housing her broke-ass, ungrateful kids. An irreverent meditation on aging that asks: can you really reimagine your life on the cusp of its twilight?

Dear Brown People debates the need for and practices of the “racial courts”, so-called “verification boards”, in Brazil, whose purpose is to verify the color, race, and ethnicity of candidates who are applying for affirmative action and, in particular, the systematic discrimination against mixed-race people in this process.

When a blue-collar man is forcibly implanted with his alien boss's parasitic offspring, he asks his wife to help him remove the parasite -- a dangerous and forbidden act that puts their marriage -- and their lives -- at risk.

Linda lives in a Curiosity Shop and loves going on amazing adventures. Linda doesn't take on these adventures alone. Her best friend Louie, will always be there with her. In her imagination, Linda can be anything.

Swish is a reality show that serves as a vehicle to take the audience into the streets and to give an intimate look into a city’s urban culture. In nearly every major metropolitan area in the world, people can be found playing basketball in public courts.

Maggie welcomes four of her oldest friends back home after the unexpected death of one of their own. She convinces them to fulfill a childhood pact - destroy all evidence of their friend’s most embarrassing secrets.

A struggling artist in Chicago battles becoming a junkie again as a hurricane strikes his native Puerto Rico, while a new job forces him to overcome his public speaking fears.

An inspiring limited series following three Chicago high schoolers who use slam poetry to navigate the outcomes of a tragic event.

When a foul-mouthed, 80-year-old grandma gets dumped and booted from her boyfriend's brownstone, she's forced to return to the rent-stabilized apartment housing her broke-ass, ungrateful kids. An irreverent meditation on aging that asks: can you really reimagine your life on the cusp of its twilight?

Breakdowns is a mockumentary style digital series about Patty Lee Casting, a Minneapolis-based film and commercial casting office that pines for the good old days when the local film industry was booming.

All Bonnie Blue ever wanted was to chase tornadoes with her Dad. But dreams die with time. Now, she’s become a different kind of storm chaser — hawking roofing, siding and storm doors “door-to-door” for her charismatic boss, Flip Smyth: a cult-like father figure to Bonnie and his tribe of young sales bucks.

How far would you go for a better life? Lucia crosses the Suchiate river with her daughter Carmen into Mexico, heading for the U.S. border. While traveling, she meets Matias, an offhanded father, making the trek with his son, Nicolas.

OH MY STARS is a drama set In the days of the Great Depression. A disfiguring factory accident and a miserable home life compel a young woman to leave Kentucky for San Francisco. Her plan: to be the second suicide off the Golden Gate Bridge.

A marketing executive who reluctantly joined her father’s bull-semen business seeks a way back to the city, but both she and her rural hometown face an unexpected upheaval after the arrival of hundreds of relocated immigrants from the nation’s water-deprived coastal cities.

A recently freed slave and his determined white lawyer must work together to prove his innocence after being accused of the bloody murders of his former masters.

Superhuman Public Radio a comedy audio drama about a publicly funded radio station (ahem, NPR) In a world where Superheroes are not only real, but central to American life. SPR is an immersive experience bringing you news, ads, music and slice of life stories that explore the unexplored comers of the superhero world. Over the course of the season, the news programs develop season-long stories of alien deportations, genetic data breaches, corporate greed and stolen identities while our programming blocks explore more intimate, personal stories of people in every facet of the super world. Or as we say: "the stories that fall between the panels."

Rachel Su, an edgy Chinese tech prodigy in Silicon Valley, has invented a disruptive energy technology that could eliminate much of the world's need for oil, and solve global warming. But her technology puts Rachel on the razor's edge between those who want to exploit it, and the companies and countries who will do anything to stop it. A one-hour Asian female led drama similar tonally to "Billions", "Scandal", "Halt and Catch Fire", "Alias" and "Mr. Robot".

Single Cam/Half Hour: In a small town cut in half by the Vermont/Quebec border, a jaded US Border Patrol Agent struggles to stave off boredom while maintaining a fierce rivalry with her twin sister in the Canadian Mounties. “BROOKLYN NINE-NINE” meets “PARKS & REC”

American Virtuosa is an hour-long historical drama limited series based on the life of Amy Beach, America’s first successful woman composer. It’s the story of a young prodigy in nineteenth-century Boston who must fight gender barriers and her own family to follow her dream of being a world-famous musician. The series is a “feminist Amadeus” comprising of 6-8 episodes that are tonally similar to The Queen’s Gambit and visually rich as a nod to Amy’s synesthesia—her experience of music as color.

Mixed Signals is an absurd comedy that deep-dives into the biracial experience. The story centers Mak, a 24 year old mulatto woman back in her hometown of Kansas City trying to reinvent her career & restart her childhood friendships. Mak, with the help of her Black & White Consciences that only she and the audience can see, must navigate her evolving creative & racial identity in an unsupportive environment or risk falling into a cycle of mediocrity she's worked her whole life to escape.

Breakdowns is a mockumentary style digital series about Patty Lee Casting, a Minneapolis-based film and commercial casting office that pines for the good old days when the local film industry was booming.