Coming-of-Age

Anonymous Content is out with PAPER TIGER by Peter Huang. An Asian American boy turns to a life of crime and drugs.

Verve is out with SHE’S NOT HERE by Molly McAlpine. Upon losing her only child, Ellie flees her tidy life for Hawaii.

UTA is out with SUMMERING by Benjamin Percy & James Ponsoldt. Four girls discover a dead body and set off on a journey.

In a near-future dystopia, where mutated beasts called the Hounds have ravaged the earth, a young girl and her mother struggle to survive in an isolated farmhouse. When a stranger arrives on the land, both mother and daughter’s lives begin to unravel as they start to question the very reality they thought they knew so well.

Logline: Fearing the devastating impact that his father’s presidency would have on his personal life, his country and the world at large, ten-year-old Barron Trump sets out to sabotage his father’s 2016 campaign.

Boogie is a, Asian-American star basketball player, recently moved to a new high school to beat his rival player. Struggling to to decide what his basketball future will be, he’s caught between two dueling, over-bearing parents.

A high school kid yearning to fit in and be accepted by the cool kids is hindered when his autistic twin brother starts going to the same school.

When outcast teenager, Kayla Kring discovers she can enter people’s dream she finds out that high school is a whole different kind of nightmare.

Matt hasn’t eaten in days. His stomach stabs and twists inside, but Matt won’t give in. Because Matt has discovered something: the hungrier he gets, the more he seems to have . . . powers. The ability to see & hear things he shouldn’t be able to. Maybe even the authority to bend time and space. But Matt doesn’t realize there are many kinds of hunger…and he isn’t in control of all of them.

A young woman starts to turn into a vampire when puberty hits (in a world where vampires were killed off and haven’t been seen in 25 years)

A guy examines his comfortable life when he is offered the chance to follow his dream of becoming a stand up comedian.

A cultural coming-of-age story about a career-driven Latina American during her “double quinceañera” — celebrated at age 30 because she missed having her first quinceñera at 15. She invites her parents, best friends, and brazen married cousin to a work trip disguised as a double quince, inviting trouble that could jeopardize her job and her relationships.

Story is based on the life of local baseball star Chance Smith, who committed suicide in 2012 at the age of 16 following a breakup.

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.

About a young girl whose high school friends inexplicably begin to die in a series of gruesome murders.

Follows a sardonic girl in her final year of college whose overactive imagination leads to catastrophic thinking and hilarious mishaps.

A couple must try to hold their relationship together as a memory-loss virus spreads and threatens to erase the history of their love and courtship.

When Adam, a schizophrenic teen, starts a new drug trial and a new school everything seems possible, especially once he meets Maya. But when his meds start to fail, Adam becomes desperate to keep Maya from discovering his illness.

After getting hypnotized, a 16-year-old begins to see changes in the world around him.

August Monroe, is a 15-year old musical prodigy with borderline agoraphobia whose path collides with a former music manager who has fallen from grace. The unlikely duo must come together to free each other from the demons of their pasts.

The four Fitzgerald-Trout siblings live together on a lush tropical island, sleeping in their car, bathing in the ocean, and driving anywhere they need to go. If they put their minds to it, they can do anything. Even, they hope, find a real home and possibly save the world.

As high school senior, Dill, feels the coils of his future tightening around him, his only escapes from the vipers he’s wrestled with his entire life are his music and his feelings for Lydia.

Arkie is a 12-year-old girl, blind in one eye and with a tentacle-like arm who must travel to a city of light to rescue her octopus father.

A teenager struggling to provide for his younger siblings in Compton finds his life turned upside down when he’s held at gunpoint by the girl of his dreams.

A young girl comes of age in a repressive religious cult led by a charismatic patriarch, but grows skeptical of his leadership and begins to challenge it.

Logline: A closeted high school football player is forced to volunteer at a retirement community after getting in trouble with the law, where he forms an unlikely friendship with an elderly veteran mourning the loss of his long time male partner.

He’s a talented skateboarder hamstrung by a drug habit, and she is the one who has to decide whether they are on the cusp of an important cultural moment or if her love for him and her forgiveness of his shortcomings will bring both of them down. Acquired by Bruce Dern’s Publicly Private Productions.

Deming Guo is adopted by two white reporters and renamed Daniel Wilkinson after his undocumented Chinese immigrant mother Polly goes missing after going to her job at the nail salon. Deming struggles to reconcile his two lives.

Newly transitioned trans girl Sophie Crumb starts her tumultuous first year of high school, complete with a love triangle (or square), the return of her estranged father, her brother’s drinking problem, a dissolving best friendship and a role in a school play that she didn’t even audition for.

A very late-in-life coming of age story, that happens to take place during a somewhat early mid-life crisis being had by a slightly neurotic good time Charlie, who after a four day bender known as a “brain cleanse” decides he NEEDS a baby.