Matthew Herbertz

Set in Florida, a 12 year old Puerto Rican girl’s perspective changes when she brings a popular dessert dish, arroz con leche, to a Thanksgiving event at her school and no one eats it.

Unbeknown to his coworkers, a timid school janitor explores an alternate persona through a transformative nightly ritual.

A Navajo teenager flees home to search for her missing sister. On the road, she meets a single parent who has fled home with his infant. As they look for her sister, they form an unlikely and ephemeral bond.

A fugitive priest seeks shelter with a small family in an old farmhouse where he must conceal his true identity or face the ultimate punishment.