Jim Thalman

Clay Kincaid hates the nickname 'Saint', he got for being too kind to stray animals and desperate people. Especially when it comes to women. With a rough and damaged past that has left him jaded, he doesn't do committed relationships. This is before he meets Samantha Jamieson, an heiress turned runaway in need of help. When she starts to work as a waitress at his bar, he discovers that she is someone truly special and amazing… someone that could warm his damaged heart.

An aging widower and a duck encounter helpful and hostile characters as they search for a place and a reason to live.

An NYPD Detective is shot by one of his own, benevolent brothers in uniform. Communities are ignited - to march for justice. Gangs put their differences aside - for a united fight, an equal opportunity. “That people not be judged by the color of their skin but for the content of their character.” The movement and unity impacts City society and leads to a Blue Wall intervention within the Police force. White cops lust for change and act on it - by flushing out racism. Not an easy fight. In the end, what was considered impossible, became possible.

An ancient wind carries with it omens of the apocalypse, stirring the pride and envy of a group of college kids to murderous rage. Michael Mongillo's directorial debut is a lyrical, meditative film charged with sex and violence.

Stefan, a young gay East German medical student, arrives in San Francisco for a medical congress and is following the trail of his dead father, a once high ranking AIDS researcher in the East. Stefan is investigating whether the HIV virus was an incremental result of secret human experiments that were conducted in US prisons in the seventies - a thesis of the Berlin professor, Jakob Segal, which was spread by state agents of former East Germany. At the same time, a serial killer is haunting the gay bars of the city and is killing HIV positive long-term survivors.

After the death of her closest two friends, young Daphne Lessing suffers a loss of faith, then a lapse in memory. Confronted with a diagnosis of schizophrenia and a pregnancy she neither planned nor is able to explain, Daphne is forced into a terrible choice: lose her child or lose her mind. "The Substance of Things Hoped For" traces Daphne's desperate search for the past she cannot recall, the father she never had, and the child she may never know.

Private Investigator Kevin Ramsey is hired to discreetly look into the murder of Sarah Vandy, TV star and wild child with a scandalous reputation.

8 men in a holding cell with a homeless man who claims to be God.

Five strangers are invited to a castle under the pretense that one may inherit it. Little do they know what dangers await at the House of the Wolfman.

When a disabled war veteran discovers the dead body of a beautiful singer in his back yard, his fascination with her photographic image soon turns to obsession

A mysterious projectionist in abandoned movie house plays host to a young intruder and offers him the chance to watch four spine-tingling tales of terror on the big screen.

Three young actresses struggle to find the best approach to 'making it' in Hollywood in this sexy metaphysical comedy. Along the way they encounter a former "scream queen" who becomes their manager, a self-obsessed, rehabbed film star, a novice director, and the 'Church of Charismatic Consciousness' - led by the eccentric Minister Holly. It's a wonder they survive each day, let alone make it to the end of this crazy adventure!

Scott Wills returns to his childhood home with his wife and daughter. He has inherited the house from his mother, who left him in the care of relatives just before disappearing from his life. While renovating the house, Scott gets a small splinter in his foot, triggering a chain of events and fever dreams, leading him to uncover dark secrets about his hometown, why he was abandoned by his parents, and the terrible legacy that is now his birthright.

Two men race across a remote desert wasteland, one in desperate need of a doctor. What should have been a routine arms deal has gone terribly awry, and now, if they want to live, they'll need to get the lead out in more ways than one.

A 16mm black & white film about Josie, a homegirl from the hood, who feels alienated ever since her brother Alex and "papi chulo" cousin Papo became lovers. As children, they made a promise to stay together. The promise read: "Cousins Forever". As adults, they share an apartment. The boys are unaware that Josie has drilled a hole on the wall. She feels that peeping is pathetic but it's the only way to feel included.

Vic O’Rorke is an ex-cop with a private investigator’s license. He handles cases where he can exact vigilante justice and make a tidy sum for himself. In this episode, he takes on a case where a boyfriend has been kidnapped for ransom money. Vic is able to deduce the location of the hideout and formulate a plan all by going through his client’s mobile phone. During the daring rescue he finds one of the hoods is also a cop and a deal is born.

Short from C.J. Schmidt