Common

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An aspiring twentysomething rapper who wants a career in hip-hop is torn by her parents’ dreams that she finish college, where she finds her true talent in the power of the spoken word.

Logline: An 18-year-old breaks out of a youth drug treatment clinic, but when he returns home to Los Angeles, he’s given an intervention by his parents and forced to go to an adult rehab.

Logline: Follows an ex-con who becomes entangled in a manipulative chess game between federal agents, local police and the mob.

Logline: When a young boy follows his recently paroled uncle around town, he finds himself growing up quickly in a series of escalating events that include a triple homicide and his first drug deal.

Logline: Story follows two pre-teenage girls who after being sent home early from a birthday party discover an unattended baby in a carriage, and after failing to care for it, the baby ends up dead, and the girls are put away for seven years. It’s only when they are released that what appears to be the truth about their stories begins to reveal itself, but it is clouded bt the fact that suddenly, other children have begun to disappear.

Logline: Story focuses on the historic–and often violent–marches that took place in Selma, Alabama in 1965, which marked the political and emotional peak of the civil rights movement.