Nichole Ruiz
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Jay, a queer transman, navigates the shark-infested waters of LA’s gay dating scene. He’s young, he’s single, and he’s really just looking for fun and sex, meeting guys mostly on hookup apps, but when the bedroom door closes, he is subjected to the type of questions cis men only feel safe to ask in private. Jay’s chosen family comes with him on his journey, starting with his primary relationships with cis women: Selena, his gluten-intolerant Angeleno best friend and Darlene, the Bostonian hairdresser/problematic fave who practically raised him and Penis Mascot, the cartoon caped penis who personifies his id. When he meets Joe, a kind genuine guy who’s really into him, he doesn’t really know how to act and must learn self respect to save any hope for his new relationship.
Bombshell

Cultures collide in a beachside college town when the lives of a surfer and a nerd intertwine. Together the step-brothers must navigate romance, finals, and a surf cult.
Web of Life

When Elena, a Russian immigrant studying in Miami and Carlos her Columbian boyfriend run out of legal options for staying in the U.S. the couple switch partners with Betty and Mike, an American couple who are also their best friends. All is well until the stress of keeping up appearances to their family members and a savvy immigration enforcement agent eventually begins to take its toll.
Immigration Tango

As his personal life unravels, a burgeoning white supremacist descends into an abyss of online radicalization and extremist conspiracy theories.
High Score

A lonely woman who takes care of her paralyzed husband saves an alien who cannot experience emotions.
Like Us

Kristen is a photographer who is opening her first ever gallery show. Her girlfriend, Samantha and all her friends are there. Everything was going as planned except when her parents randomly shows up on her gallery show, which was full of queer art. Deprived of this knowledge of their daughter's sexuality, her parents confront her.
You

The journey of Cole, a trouble teenage boy who struggles through the grasp of his authoritarian father who keeps on abusing his mother.