The Firecracker Incident

Product Code: FE9000

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Approx. Run Time: 40 min.

Fourteen-year-old Joe's parents are pretty tough. First, they moved his bedroom into his little sister's closet. Then they took away his door. And then, after he just "happened" to tie one of her Barbie dolls to black cat firecrackers and exploded them in the backyard, they grounded him for the entire summer. But when his only friend breaks him out in the middle of the night, he embarks on the adventure of a lifetime, which may mean the difference between life and death.

Theory of Mind

Product Code: TP6000

Approx. Run Time: 50 min.

Autism makes social interactions challenging. Imagine, then, a high-school senior on the autism spectrum who desperately wants a girlfriend—and misreads just about every social cue she gives him. This is Bill's journey as he takes Hilo out on a date with hilarious, touching and profound insights about identity, what it means to be on the autism spectrum and love.

Three Nightmares

Product Code: TS8000

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Approx. Run Time: 105 min.

Each thriller in this three-act evening is scarier than the last. Wake-Up Call: A young man wakes up from one nightmare, only to find that he’s in another. Now he can’t tell what’s real and what’s not. The New Margo: A young woman’s best friend disappears and is replaced by an entirely different person, but she’s the only one who seems to be able to tell. One Lane Bridge: A teenage driver realizes that his mysterious passenger isn’t who he thought she was—she’s something much, much worse. Each act gives the audience the horrifying feeling that all is not right with the world and that it’s going to be hard to sleep tonight.

Samuel J. and K.

Product Code: S1K000

Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Samuel J. surprises his adopted brother, Samuel K., with a trip back to his birth country of Cameroon for college graduation, but Samuel K. has no desire to face a place and a past that abandoned him. Samuel J. and K. challenges the traditional definitions of family and asks if a place we've only imagined can become home overnight.

The Persian Quarter

Product Code: PK7000

Approx. Run Time: 90 min.

Two American diplomats stationed in Iran in 1979, are taken hostage by student revolutionaries and begin a trial of endurance that lasts 444 days. We go forward to the year 2009 to New York's Columbia University, where a fashionable Iranian, Azadeh, introduces herself to an American photojournalist, Emily, neither of them aware that their mothers met 30 years ago in a prison in Teheran.