Vicki Syal

TRANS LOS ANGELES is an anthology of four stand-alone short films and their unifying theme is that they all feature a Trans character in the lead and they all take place in a different part of Los Angeles. These stories are character-driven/slices of life and they demonstrate the rich diversity within the trans community.

Lola searches for her missing best friend with the help of a stranger who may know more than he’s letting on.

The story of a man, whose life is turned upside down when he leases a car to drive for a rideshare company.

A mechanic with terminal cancer has a bizarre secret --- he's had a life-long love-affair with a sex doll. Now his son, a D-list TV actor, must help him find the doll a new home and say goodbye.

After giving birth, a mother deals with her new identity, and post-partum depression as she navigates life with her new baby, her husband, and her loud and opinionated family.

Two strangers work together to determine what is worth remembering while language, and memory, deterioriates.

When high school senior Lolo discovers that her grandma is being evicted by gentrifying developers, she convinces her best friend, Vashundhra, to help with a bank heist before graduation.

A love-obsessed woman becomes a martial-arts master in order to save the busboy at a local club from getting bullied by two Mexican wrestlers.

In the near future, babies aren't born, they are grown in a household device called the Cradle. When the power goes out, an expectant father struggles to keep the appliance running.

After 13 years, estranged sisters Isabel and Mariana return to their childhood home in rural Texas to care for their sick father. Determined to reclaim what was stolen from them and end his suffering, they secretly plot his murder. Desperate for revenge and an apology, they unknowingly summon a Duende—a sinister, elf-like creature that appears when someone in the family desires the death of another member.