Mr Meeks (segment 'Daddy')
An anthology film presenting six short horror stories from black writers and directors, featuring racist vampires, supernatural creatures, and Satan his damn self.
Mailman
Protests erupt when a halfway house for ex-cons opens in a middle-class neighborhood. As neighborhood protests intensify outside the house, the heat and tension escalate inside until they explode.
Thomas
An African-American teenager grapples with his sexual identity on the night Barack Obama is elected President and Proposition 8 — the California voter initiative to eliminate same-sex marriage — is passed. When one of Jamie's friend group initiates the bullying of an openly gay classmate, Jamie uses his wits to try and prevent it, but when things don't go the way he predicted, he is forced to face his fears head on. Winner of the Audience Award for Best Short Film at Frameline35: The San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival, Change is a poetic and moving film which deftly examines one young man's internal identity struggles within the context of the modern movement for LGBT rights, and a high school experience fraught with peer pressure.
Simon
A film set in the early 1960's American Midwest about a thirteen year old boy whose dream is to run away to California and surf.
Joe Washington
A single mother and her mute, autistic son are terrorized by supernatural entities in this haunting story of love, loss and the occult.
Old man
One man stands alone against nightmarish creatures that take his daughter's life right before his eyes.
Tony
Although notorious New Orleans gangster J.D. Walker is shot and killed in the 1940s, his spirit remains restless for three decades, until a hypnotist's supernatural nightclub act allows him to take over the body of a mild-mannered law student and seek revenge on those who got him killed.
Spencer
New York City English professor Axel Freed outwardly seems like an upstanding citizen. But privately Freed is in the clutches of a severe gambling addiction that threatens to destroy him.
