Jenn Haltman

In Kentucky, a transgender woman and her best male friend lament the lack of eligible partners and step across old boundaries of love and romance.

Madeline has become an integral part of a prestigious physical theater troupe. When the workshop's ambitious director pushes the teenager to weave her rich interior world and troubled history with her mother into their collective art, the lines between performance and reality begin to blur. The resulting battle between imagination and appropriation rips out of the rehearsal space and through all three women's lives.

SOMEONE WILL ASSIST YOU SHORTLY explores a hospice nurse's panic and isolation as he cares for his abusive and cognitively impaired father.

Unsure of his future after college, James returns to his small rural hometown before his senior year begins. He unexpectedly begins working on the dairy farm his father once owned, befriending an eccentric twenty-something farmer and, to his surprise, a grieving cow. As James connects with his past, he opens old wounds about his father's sudden death.