Pisie Hochheim

Journalist Susan Zalkind investigates the triple murder that took her friend’s life, the national tragedy that shook her city, and the haunting question that connects the two events: if the murders had been solved, could the Boston Marathon bombing could have been prevented?

An Alabama corrections officer falls in love with a man awaiting trial for murder and risks it all to help him escape.

Ry Russo-Young turns the camera on her own past to explore the meaning of family. In the late 70s/early 80s, when the concept of a gay family was inconceivable to most, Ry and her sister Cade were born to two lesbian mothers through sperm donors. Ry’s idyllic childhood was threatened by an unexpected lawsuit which sent shockwaves through her family’s lives and continues to reverberate today.

A curmudgeonly biologist and his stoner graduate students encounter a group of mysterious backpackers who disrupt their lives in surprising ways.

A short film by Tony Oswald and Pisie Hochheim.

Lucy suffers through her older sister's baby shower, but she cannot comprehend the painful memories the event dredges up for her own mother.

After relocating for her husband’s job, Patty struggles to find anyone or anything that makes sense.

Persecuted and hunted by Christianizing forces, young Deirdre and her clan eke out an itinerant existence in the forest. When the threat grows more imminent, Deidre's mother, Brigid, is led by a ritualistic vision to make a transformative choice: she offers herself as holy sacrifice. Many years later, Deirdre and her father, Orson, are all that remain of the clan. Deirdre and Orson embark upon a harrowing and hallucinatory journey to find Brigid, one that will lead them across the threshold of death and far beyond.

Claire struggles as the shock of her father's suicide ripples through her small Quaker community. Desperate to reunite with the only person who seemed to understand her, Claire reaches out to her father across the boundary of death.

After a visit from the ghost of her grandmother, a writer secretly fosters the growth of a mysterious pepper plant in her mother's garden. As the seed bears fruit, she begins to question the choices the women before her made, and her own role in her family's lineage.

A single mom from rural Kentucky travels to San Diego to sell her eggs to support her two kids.

The matriarch of a rural Kentucky family takes issue with her daughter's boyfriend at a gathering to view the total solar eclipse.