The Sound of Cracking Bones

Product Code: SJ1000

Approx. Run Time: 70 min.

Elikia is a child who is kidnapped from her family and is forced to become a child soldier. It is little Joseph, the youngest child to come to the rebels' camp, who reminds her of her humanity and gives her the courage to break the chain of violence into which she has been pulled. While Joseph and Elikia are on the run, experiencing doubts, fears and a wish to return to civilized life where children may grow up as children, Angelina, the nurse who greets them at the hospital where they take refuge, puts this painful reality into perspective and opens the window to a light that is uncertain—but a light, nonetheless.

fml: how Carson McCullers saved my life

Product Code: FE5000

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Jo is busy fending off suburban boredom, when her teacher assigns Carson McCullers' novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter to her English class. She relates to the central character: forever the listener, definitively the outsider and perpetually misunderstood. When she is the victim of a gay bashing, those close to Jo question their own responsibility and find a voice for those persecuted simply for being different.

El Viaje de Beatriz (Beatriz's Journey)

Product Code: V42000

Approx. Run Time: 55 min.

When Beatriz storms into her room to escape yet another fight between her parents, she turns to Beatrizita, a doll made for her by her recently deceased abuela, for comfort. Beatrizita magically comes to life and sends Beatriz searching for her abuela in Dreamland with nothing but a blank map to guide her. Along the way, she discovers the regalitos (little gifts) of spirit that her abuela’s kindness instilled within her.

Story Stew: A Fairy Tale Revue

Product Code: S1H000

Livestream and Record & Stream Rights Available

Approx. Run Time: 60 min.

Familiar fables take on new twists as the mystery of the missing food leads the kids of all your fairy tale favorites—Jack, Jill, Little Red Riding Hood, Goldilocks, Hansel, Gretel, Mary, Little Miss Muffet, the Big Bad Wolf, the Gingerbread Man, Puss in Boots—through the woods to Grandmother's house, up a beanstalk, and finally to the witch's gingerbread house.

Charm

Product Code: CP2000

Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

This is the story of an extraordinary woman: the brilliant, but forgotten, American writer and feminist, Margaret Fuller, who inspired The Scarlet Letter. Set in an imagined America of the 1840s, the play portrays her journey from a plain, bookish young woman suffering unrequited love for her handsome cousin to the confidant of Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathanial Hawthorne and Henry David Thoreau and the New-York Tribune's first female war correspondent.