Chris Nelson

When an overstressed young woman joins her best friend at a wellness retreat in the Arizona desert, she begins to suspect that the revitalizing spa treatments, serums, and macrobiotic meals are part of something closer to a dangerous cult, run by the retreat’s charismatic leader.

Screen Shot 2015-04-30 at 3.08.38 PM Adam, an outcast queer teen living on the fringes of Hawaii, is sent from to live with his estranged mother in suburban Las Vegas following his grandfather’s death. Thousands of miles away from everything he knows, he’s forced to make sense of his offbeat new family and friends and face his mother’s bipolar disorder. Adam begins to shape a new gender identity that’s in the middle of what he’s known his whole life and what he has left to discover.

Logline: Two childhood best friends, who first met at a beauty pageant where they placed dead last, receive an invitation to return to their hometown to attend an anniversary pageant, and they see the opportunity to prove everyone wrong and win the crown.

Logline: Pitched as being “Superbad” in tone, on the eve of their high school graduation two best friends make a pact to lose their virginity before heading off to college, but at the same time one of them also admits to being gay.