Ryan Balas
Midwinter
A burgeoning music writer recovering from a recent break-up spends a romantic weekend on an assignment with a musician she admires. Meanwhile, her older sister deals with the complexities of motherhood, an expanding marriage, and a ferocious illness.
Fire, Water & Grain: The Story of Empire Rye
Meet a group of renegade craft distillers, farmers, entrepreneurs, historians, and policymakers as they band together to celebrate the past, present, and future of Rye Whiskey and what it means to the people of the state that made it famous.
Love is a Map
Annie and Mary were in love in college but didn't realize it until it was too late. Years later, they decide to spend a romantic weekend together in the mountains exploring what might have been, had their love been given it's own map.
Ex Ex Ex
A raw look at the beginning of a love affair and the end of a marriage, through intimate vignettes. How do you get the love you need, without losing the love you have?
Love Me Anyway
A sun soaked drama about a gay filmmaker falling for a dreamy surfer, a man trying to save his marriage and a young wife exploring the greener grass of an extramarital affair with another woman.
Hymns
Ingrid has been living alone while her husband is away fighting a war. After receiving disheartening letters, Ingrid's tom boy sister-in-law Irene comes to stay with her. A spark of thrilling eroticism ignites, as tensions rise.
Elenore Makes Love
A lesbian photographer meets a sexy model in an upscale hotel suite. The two women may have a past that is more present than we think.
Louise and Her Lover
The line between art and sex gets blurred in this erotic thriller. Lilly, a wanna-be model, falls in love with Johanna, an up and coming New York City painter. Louise, another model, enters the picture and a threesome spins things out of control and into dangerous new heights.
The Kings of Yorktown
Ed and Richard are brothers. They’re also con artists. Not incredibly successful ones, but they get by. Ed’s the leader. Richard’s a bit slow. Their old pal Henry, who used to work with them, gave up the con life to work as a security guard at a bank in rural Yorktown. Ed convinces Henry to get back in the game and help them pull their biggest con yet. Of course, they’ll have to wade their way through Yorktown’s quirky cast of characters to get what they want, which, as is often the case, seems to be ever-changing.
My Little Friend
A lesbian artist fails to come out to her best friend of 10 years. A few drinks and some sexual tension leads the two friends spiraling towards a blurred line in their relationship. Only Further complicated by one of their neurotic boyfriends.
Everyone Says I Look Just Like Her
Two sisters, one white and one black, spend a week together at their famous father's summer home. A microscopic examination of the new American family unit, it's a deeply personal film about the human connections that bond us all together. "Naturally Funny" with "Breathtaking lensing," shot in Northern Michigan.