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APOLLO AT SUNSET
Hollywood God, PAUL O'SHEA, wants to give up his movie star life and be human again. Disguised as a bum, he descends from Olympus to be among regular people. There, in the produce section of a local supermarket, he meets the woman who could change everything and love him for who he is.
LAST SONG
In a rickety cabin on the outskirts of Nashville, a lone GUITAR PLAYER sings a sad tune as he surveys the wreckage of an epic jam. Empty jugs, bottles, half-smoked joints, overflowing ashtrays. A broken fiddle with twisted strings. Two halves of a snapped bow, bound in a knotty tangle of frayed horsehair. A banjo stabbed to the wall with a Bowie knife. An upright bass on the floor, it's OWNER spooning it, snoring. Musicians strewn about like dirty laundry.
POINTING BONES
Australia 1872, the red centre. Construction party ‘D’ are building the most remote section of the Overland Telegraph Line, a line that will bisect Australia from Port Augusta to Darwin, connecting the country to the Java cable and the rest of the world.
“An end to the tyranny of distance.”
“An end to silence.”
Heroism on an epic stage and a race against time and rivals.
ROSE OF SHARON
DENNIS AVERY (34) is living the dream: he's the Golden Boy creative director at his Washington, D.C. agency and he's getting engaged to BECKA (25), a sexy, ambitious rising star in the glam world of A-List PR event planning. They're everybody's idea of a dream couple––especially their own.
TINIAN
TINIAN is a dark love story set in 1974 in the South Pacific, where the war in nearby Asia rages on.
When PAUL VOSS, 20, gets off the boat on the island of Tinian - notorious as the launching pad for the Enola Gay's flight over Hiroshima - he's looking forward to a few weeks with his revered older brother, EFFIE, and Effie's girlfriend, HELEN, with whom they've both been smitten since their childhood in Georgia.
LA FRONTERA
When SAM WHITNEY, a precocious high school track star from Tucson, gets kidnapped by narcos after a night of partying in Nogales, she is rescued by a young stranger, PACO BENITEZ, an earnest 17-year-old Mexican about to make the crossing into the United States.
LIVING CONDITIONS
Set in New England, LIVING CONDITIONS is the story of REBECCA, a successful judge living what appears to be an ideal life with her architect husband, and CARLA, a young waitress trapped in an abusive marriage.
Their lives connect irrevocably one snowy night when Rebecca drives Carla home. Drunk and looking for a fight, Carla’s husband RAY begins to argue with her the moment she walks in the door. The fight becomes physical and ultimately, Carla kills her husband in self-defense. Rebecca, an accidental eyewitness, calls 911 and leaves the scene before the police arrive.
THE RACING SEASON
In a sweltering capital city somewhere in Latin America, IAN HENNESSY, mid-40's, Irish, a fugitive wanted for financing illegal arms deals, dreams of breeding horses and training a stable of sprinters like his father. Rugged, unexpectedly charming, Hennessy’s assets have been frozen and mysterious kidnappers stalk him.
THIRTY-SEVEN HEAVENS
A lonely widower journeys with a lonely widow to a mythical lost world. Friends for years, united by shared grief and memories, they discover a passion that catches them unawares like the overpowering beauty and mystery of the ancient ruins that engulf them.
The widow, renowned for her style, wit, and icy control, arrives still troubled, four years after her husband’s death. Unable to sleep, perpetually, aimlessly traveling, she is trying to escape the past. The widower, once a powerful politician, shocked by the recent loss of his wife, hopes the trip will restore him, clear his mind, help him start living again.
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