2016 LPFC

Logline: In apartheid South Africa, a young black freedom fighter sets out to rescue her father, who has been wrongfully arrested for a bombing she caused. Through her pursuit, she comes face-to-face with the grotesque underbelly of the apartheid regime, and forms an unlikely friendship with the son of her enemy.

Logline: A woman who runs a fidelity investigation business – testing men’s loyalties to their girlfriends and collecting the reward when they cheat – finds herself falling in love with her latest target, an aspiring politician who’s blind to her charms.

Logline: When a woman unable to get a job with a felony conviction hanging over her head gets hired to live in a suburban marijuana grow house, she struggles to build a normal life for her and her daughter while falling for the house drug dealer, and keeping her new best friend, his wife, from finding out.

Logline: An 18-year-old girl struggles with her place in life when she and her father are forced to leave California for Iowa to live with her fundamentalist aunt in Iowa, and she soon finds herself attracted to her autistic cousin.

Logline: Five years after the death of his wife, a man refuses to get back into the dating world, too afraid of becoming emotionally attached. But when he takes the first step in overcoming his fear by exploring the no-strings-attached option of hiring a professional escort, he finds himself unexpectedly falling for one of the women he hires.

Logline: When Nazis raid a children’s home, two young sisters flee into the forest where they discover an ancient creature under an evil spell. As their partisan parents fight to find them, the girls agree to help the creature break the curse in return for his own protection.

Logline: A gay linebacker for the Dallas Cowboys deals with his life on the down low while struggling to make his mark in the most macho of professional sports, and the consequences of becoming the first active NFL player in history to come out of the closet.

Logline: Just days before his wedding, a man’s friends surprise him with a trip to New Zealand for the world’s biggest Lord of the Rings role playing battle. But the adventure goes awry when one of their tour guides drugs everyone so he can swipe the valuable ring the groom bought for his fiancée, leading to an epic journey to get it back before the big day.

Logline: An African slave with a gift for languages travels with Spanish Conquistadors to Florida on a doomed quest to find and conquer the legendary city of gold. In this remarkable true story, he emerges as the unlikely hero on a journey that begins with 600 men, and ends with only four left alive.

Logline: A solitary prisoner sentenced to work in isolation mining precious metals on a remote asteroid creates a synthetic female companion for himself, and life gains meaning for him when the two fall in love. But when an emergency brings another astronaut to rescue them, he instead lays claim to everything the prisoner has.

Logline: Two mobsters running a delivery from Los Angeles to Las Vegas discover that the money in their briefcase, which may or may not have been there in the first place, is missing, and consequently kidnap a woman, who may or may not have stolen it, to try to track it down before their boss has them killed.

Logline: A bartender (and small-time con artist) fleeing a criminal gambling charge convinces a naive Mormon missionary to drive across country with her, but when their truck and money are stolen, they have to resort to hustling pool in order to make it to Utah.

Logline: A Byzantine captain escapes his long enslavement at the hands of the Ottoman Empire just as the city of Constantinople prepares to defend itself against an Ottoman siege, leaving him to prove his loyalty to those that had given him up for dead.