Michelle Bonebright-Carter

Bennie Upshaw, the head of a Black working class family in Indianapolis, is a charming, well-intentioned mechanic and lifelong mess just trying his best to step up and care for his family and tolerate his sardonic sister-in-law, all without a blueprint for success.

After her parents fail to show up to her basketball senior night, a teenager is forced to decide if she is finally going to admit that she's tired of being an afterthought or continue to keep things bottled up inside.

As seen through the raw digital lens of a Canon XL2, Boy Friends exposes four young men's desperate yearnings for connection and meaning within the loud city of Los Angeles.