Directing
Max Drexler is a filmmaker and editor working in both documentary and fiction.
In a sedate Massachusetts suburb circa 1970, unemployed family man and amateur art thief J.B. Mooney sets out on his first heist. With the museum cased and accomplices recruited, he has an airtight plan. Or so he thinks.
Independent Filmmaker Caveh Zahedi is trying to make a television show. He persuades BRIC TV, a Brooklyn non-profit Arts organization, to finance a television show whose premise is that every episode will be about the making of the previous episode. In the process of creating the show, everything can-and does-go wrong. The cast, a who's who of Brooklyn's independent filmmaking community, includes Alex Karpovsky, Eleonore Hendricks, Dustin Defa, and Onur Tukel.
Jamie, a young queer Black DJ, belongs to an underground nightlife scene in New York City where he no longer feels like an outsider. He is part of a community that expresses itself through music, dance, and fashion.
A couple's relationship is tested during a hapless night away in the country.
In an electric stand-up special, Deon Cole ponders romance, racist hotel showers, post-coital bedtime prayers and why he loves women of a certain age.
While making a documentary about a heavily polluted town, an ambitious filmmaker takes interest in a reserved teenager as a compelling subject.
In South Los Angeles, a palm tree caretaker faces the quiet unraveling of his work and identity.
