Owen Laheen

In early 90s Boston, an African-American District Attorney comes in from Brooklyn advocating change and forms an unlikely alliance with a corrupt yet venerated FBI veteran invested in maintaining the status quo. Together they take on a family of armored car robbers from Charlestown in a case that grows to encompass and eventually upend Boston’s city-wide criminal justice system.

Over the course of a single hectic day in New York City, three people from Feña's past are thrust back into his life: his foreign father, his straight ex-boyfriend, and his 13-year old half-sister. Having lost touch since transitioning from female to male, Feña must navigate the new dynamics of these old relationships while tackling the day-to-day challenges that come with living a life in-between.

The Act of Seeing is a multi-layered experiment in narrative storytelling. Five vignettes are shown from three different perspectives - Each perspective is visually interpreted in a stage of the Cosmogonic Cycle.

A Black graduate student gets cold feet about bringing her white girlfriend on a research trip to visit the Cottonmouth Plantation & Wine Cellar.

An insecure father goes to desperate lengths during a camping trip to uncover his son's true feelings towards him.