Laura Patalano

After being assigned as study partners, two Chicana high schoolers find a bond that confuses them at times.  (more)

Alejandro, a tough and ambitious Latino street orphan on the verge of adolescence, lives and works in an auto-body repair shop in a sprawling junkyard on the outskirts of Queens, New York. In this chaotic world of adults, young Alejandro struggles to make a better ...  (more)

Grand romantic gestures need not apply in this comedic tale of star-crossed young love. Instead, freshman Brian Kieslowski displays endless reserves of bumbling awkwardness as he goes home with a girl for the first time... and then learns that he got her pregnant.. ...  (more)

Seventeen-year-old Anne just fell in love with Sasha, the most popular girl at her L.A. public high school. But when Anne tells her best friend, Clifton—who has always harbored a secret crush on her—he does his best to get in the way.  (more)

Using futuristic virtual reality technology that lets him relive memories, a man seeks a way to reconnect with his lost love.  (more)

In contemporary Los Angeles, two millennials navigating a social media–driven hookup culture begin a relationship that pushes both emotional and physical boundaries.  (more)

Andrea, a grieving Chicana mother, confronts an uninvited family member before her Día de los Muertos celebration. By night's end, death offers her a choice that she couldn't make in life.  (more)

A boy by the name of Eru goes through a series of super natural events after trudging through mud in a forbidden cemetery. This incident results in an unexpected encounter.  (more)

During a medical test to join the high school soccer team, a virgin teenager is shocked to discover she is pregnant.  (more)

Dani, a Spaniard with an English mother, and Ana, an American woman with Mexican parents, are friends with benefits. Dani travels to Spain, but cannot return to the USA, so he has to communicate through video calls.  (more)