University of Southern California, School of Cinematic Arts

After mistreatment at her law firm, a black female lawyer disguises herself as a white man.

A young man in Oakland, California, wakes with a heavy heart and decides to take a walk through the neighborhood to the local barbershop.

After a man-made disaster decimates an evergreen island, a stranded 11-year-old girl must find the tenacity to leave behind her home with the help of an unlikely ocean friend.

In South Los Angeles, a young mother's love for her daughter is put to the test.

For Los Angeles natives living in the early 1900s, bicycles and streetcars shared the road as our primary modes of transportation. But the arrival of the freeway effectively wiped them out. Today, a collective of cycling communities fight for protected bike lanes and road safety, determined to bring a new era of mobility justice to the city.

A delicious sense of dark humor in which a nerdy, young feet-fetishist, a department store management trainee, is assigned to women’s shoes with painfully funny results.

After tragedy strikes, a meek Ruby Oliver enters a broken VR game for a last chance to see the dead. Little does she know that this game treats all girls as a virus as she fights to save herself.

Alice Ball, a 23 year-old African American Chemist living in 1915 Hawaii fights against racial and gender barriers to find an effective treatment for leprosy before Kalani, a 10-year-old patient is exiled into the leper colony of Molokai.

Black rookie officer Maria Hill is excited to walk in her father’s footsteps on her first shift as a Los Angeles Police Officer. On the night shift with her partner, Officer Hill is forced to examine her loyalty to her community and her badge.

A young man with an ailing ficus, desperate to escape his mother’s scrutiny, finds refuge in his connection with his neighbor Abby and their mutual love of Heavy Metal.

Amidst the outbreak of the 1910 Manchurian Plague, a young Chinese doctor must defy prejudices of both the East and the West to champion his groundbreaking theory about the disease's deadly evolution.

A passport photographer named Steven Forrest is petrified of death following the sudden demise of his fearless buddy in a martini accident.

An eight-year-old girl tries to build a relationship with her absent father through a class-assigned family tree.

In a dystopian future where telepaths are deployed at the service of a militant regime, a mute girl takes revenge on her father's killer while simultaneously helping the resistance.

A lonely Singaporean death row guard tries to help a young Australian convicted of drug trafficking accept her fate despite a bizarre contradiction - he is her executioner.

Tells the story of a young religious zealot who inadvertently releases demons into this realm. Describes the humorous struggle that ensues as he uses his faith to win the soul, and ultimately the heart of a young girl

A clumsy burglar breaks into the home of a millionaire's daughter's kidnapper.

In 1976, punk rocker Danny Brooklyn was kicked out of his own band. 45 years later, he's crashing the reunion.

This is James Gray's student film from the University of Southern California. A private investigator who is hired to bring a man's 16-year-old runaway daughter back home has second thoughts about his job when he sees the man beat his daughter.

When an elderly man and his caretaker plant a sapling, a ghost of long-forgotten grief stirs. As the silence deepens between them, what’s left unspoken threatens to shatter the peace.