From The Heart Productions
Fiscally Sponsored Indie Films and Projects

A joyride through silent-film era Hollywood, whose center of gravity is a rising, 24 year-old starlet whose violent death clips the rose of her silver-screen dream. One hundred years later her three grandsons embark on a 20-year journey of discovery and recovery,after finding a studio photo in their mothers childhood scrapbook--hidden away in a closet for half a century. A Tragic ending to Regina's blossoming Silent Film career, lead by"Premonition of Evil" that her mother had on her departure one rainy evening in Hollywood , she said " Regina, I feel something terrible is going to happen tonight, please be careful" Those were the last words she heard as she departed out for the night!

A lucky bunch of kids and professional artists gather each year on a funky little island farm to learn how to make music and film together. This year, a pandemic threatens the ability to gather safely, will the kids still find a way to adapt and evolve? Can Rock ShopZillah! survive the plague and transform into something new?

In the aftermath of being abandoned by her husband, the delusional Samra (33) unveils a plan to rewrite her narrative. Rather than succumbing to heartbreak and facing her vulnerability, she reconstructs her love life. Samra orchestrates a meticulously scripted romance, enlisting a young actor (Malik 23) who believes he is part of an unconventinal rehearsal method. As the lines blur between reality and fiction, Samra navigates the chaos of her own making forcing herself to look into herself. In this intriguing blend of dark romance and illusion, Samra takes center stage, leaving audiences guessing where the scripted drama ends and true emotions begin.

A romantic engagement celebration in a luxurious hotel takes a disturbing turn when a terrified fiancée kills her husband-to-be.

This short film follows Victoria, who is finally recovering from depression. On her engagement celebration with her fiancé Oliver, Victoria will struggle to trust herself with the eerie events that will soon start to happen in the hotel. Is it all in her mind because she stopped taking her meds or are they really happening?

After getting food poisoning, Victoria will experience very strong hallucinations that will force her to face her parents and the long lasting trauma that they inflicted on her. However, her parents are not so ready to let her go…

Princess Avali Anaveria has a secret she’s been keeping from her family. When her parents surprise her with the news she’ll be taking over the throne far sooner than expected, Avali sneaks away before the truth is uncovered. She visits her old friend from college in a remote town in Utah where she meets Anderson Habbeshaw, who happens to look exactly like movie star Bennington Farrows. When Bennington and his talent manager stumble onto a viral video of Anderson and Avali, hilarity ensues as Bennington, Anderson, and Avali play a romantic, secret-keeping game of “Who’s Who?”

"SAM & NINA Courageous Cry" , A Feature Film on the untold, true life experiences of being 'on the road' touring with NINA SIMONE;
by her BROTHER, Composer, Songwriter, Musician, Actor, Producer, SAMUEL WAYMON.

A 15-year quest to expose the underworld of sexual exploitation and trafficking from Asia to the Americas leads world-reporter Chelo Alvarez-Stehle to the windswept beach where her childhood ended and family secrets began. As she documents the transformation of sex-trafficking survivor Virginia Isaias—a Mexican American woman whose past is engulfed in a cycle of sexual exploitation—into a resilient survivor committed to break that pattern, Chelo undertakes a parallel journey of healing and introspection as she sets out to shatter the silence about abuse in her own life.
www.sandsofsilence.org/trailer/
#sextrafficking #humantrafficking #sexualviolence #childabuse #priestabuse

Children go in the VR World to escape real life issues, drama and tragedy. They like the VR World more than real life and stay in longer and longer each time as they are happy inside. Will they find more problems or peace inside and stay?

There’s a Revolution Transforming Education and it’s NOT Happening in the Classroom!

As Schoolhouse Rocked follows one family's journey from reluctant homeschoolers to enthusiastic advocates, it breaks down common misconceptions about home education, and opens the window into the live of the many families who have been impacted by the homeschool revolution.

“This is not an exaggeration to say, this is the movement that is needed to save this country.”
– Rick Green, Wallbuilders

“We believe homeschooling is critically important if we are to save our republic and the Christian family and church.”
– Kirk Cameron, Actor and Producer

WWII officer Hiroo Onoda made international headlines when he surrendered in 1974, ending thirty years of holdout on Lubang Island in the Philippines. Claiming to not know the war was over, he was hailed a hero; but can he really uphold that image when civilians were killed in the name of a war already ended?

‘Seconds Away’ is Live Action Sci-Fi/Drama that follows Ryan, 19, who finds himself in possession of Video Camera that allows him to travel back in-time to footage he has previously recorded. When his Mother is diagnosed with Terminal Cancer, he begins to record moments exclusively with her, however, he ends up facing the tough choice of ridding himself of the footage, after a posthumous visit to his Mom.

A group of ex-convicts combine forces to create a sadistic school for serial killers.

"Never let anyone steal your dreams, if I can do it so can you." is the unfinished story of our National Treasure, the legendary shadow man, Maestro Sammy Nestico.
From the roaring swinging 1920's to 2020, one man's dream is fulfilled and a world is changed forever, "one note at the time". For sixty years, Sammy lived in the shadows of some of the greatest musical icons of the 20th century. At the young age of 77, he decided to stand in his own light and live his dream. As composer, arranger and educator, Sammy influences the youngest aspiring musicians to professional performers worldwide. The sound of Big Band and Swing carries the Sammy Nestico stamp for generations to come.

She’s Scorned tells the compelling story of Symphony and Tyler, a young couple whose love story begins with passion but quickly takes a dark turn. After a whirlwind romance, their relationship collapses, leaving Symphony consumed by an overwhelming hatred for Tyler.
As time passes, Symphony's feelings of animosity intensify, eventually leading her down a twisted path of revenge and manipulation. Fueled by her anger, she weaponized the children for her own sinister purposes.
Symphony is a mother of three children, two of whom belong to Tyler. Struggling to provide a stable life for her family, Symphony is forced to confront her own demons and make a difficult decision.

Where salvation meets temptaion , Don't Miss It! The SMALL TOWN Movie.
The town Church is separated from the local Bar and 'Entertainment Dance' establishment by the one, Main Road.
The old church members want the Strippers shut down. EVICT THEM NOW!
The town's 'enjoyers of libations and women's burlesque' feel quite different!
Fun surpises abound as the 'religious and ritious' mix stripes with the passionate 'laissez faire'.

A timid young woman, Jessica attends a costume party and rediscovers true intimacy in ways she doesn't expect.

Son of a Preacher Man is a drama/romance story that merges the story of the "prodigal son, and Dusty Springfield's hit song, "Son of A Preacher Man." Abigail "Abby" King is on a path of success and has never let love get in her way until she unexpectedly meets Jacob, the son of a preacher who has fell victim to the streets and big-city nightlife. She reveals how she unintentionally falls in love with Jacob, and by his bad decisions, and her weak moment, causes them both to lose everything. Abby tells this story from the back of an Uber.

With devoted followers globally, faith-based music artists have amassed a unique fan base in the millions, becoming household names who provide joy and praise through their music. But what happens when those once beloved artists decide to live their truth and come out of the closet?

SONG SILENCED shares the stories of those million record-selling and multi-award-winning musicians who saw their careers truncated or ended as they decided to be who they are and live a life of faith and queer freedom, navigating their sudden professional changes for better and worse, and how they paved the way for out, faith-based performers of today who are reclaiming their place in Christian music.

A troubled teen with a penchant for disappearing acts sees her struggling actress mother (who is suffering from her own personal childhood trauma) in a new light when she is befriended by a trans* groundskeeper at an iconic roadside attraction in the new gothic South.

Jasmine, an American Woman in New York City falls in love with her French tutor in Paris, while her American neighbor is in love with her.

Brother and Sister, Jeong and Jueun, have been asked to perform at their mother's funeral. 

They arrive 48 hours before the funeral service to prepare their performance. 

They will perform sajanoruem, a ritual dance done in a 2-person lion costume to rid evil spirits and bring in peace. Their mother's funeral will take place at Wongaksa, a Korean Buddhist temple in Upstate, New York. 

We watch Jueun and Jeong as they prepare to perform for their mother's funeral ceremony, coming to terms with saying goodbye.

A crew of guys commit a crime together but when it's time to meet up at The Hideout as agreed, only the new guy shows up, he ends up being stuck with Anxiety and Fear as he wonders what happened to his guys; Are they caught? Are they Alive? Are they Dead? Backstory is told as he waits which becomes even bigger than the initial story!

Robert wants to raise his family in a good environment in New York City, but he is continually threatened by a street gang, the Cougar Road Warriors.

Syd Field's timing was perfect. In 1979, he launched his first book "Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting." For anyone dreaming of writing a script, and many Hollywood development executives, "Screenplay" quickly became a bible. Syd went on to write six more books, publish in 20+ languages, and travel the globe to share his knowledge and passion with aspiring screenwriters.

Syd Field influenced filmmakers such as Judd Apatow, Alfonso and Carlos Cuarón, Laura Esquivel, Kevin Williamson, and many others around the world.
WHO was Syd Field?
WHAT were his Hollywood beginnings?
HOW did he come to be known as the "Guru of all screenwriters?"

In the microchipped near-future, in the city of Los Angeles, where the human mind is uploaded to the cloud and thoughts can be used to communicate between synced individuals, a young anxious woman, Ayla, decides to move in with a new roommate,
Devin, a childhood friend with whom she lost touch. The women decide to sync their minds for a chance to foster a new close friendship. Afterwards, Ayla notices some very disturbing behavior from Devin. As their relationship quickly grows toxic, and Ayla starts dreaming about Devin’s memories, Ayla realizes she has less than 72 hours to save herself from being permanently mentally dominated by a narcissist before the sync is officially complete.

What if a dance could change a town?

Take Hands tells a small town story that has a big current relevance—a story of how music and dance can unite people across cultural divides. The film follows Stacy Rose and the South Coast Folk Society as they organize a week-long celebration of traditional American music and contra dancing in rural Coos Bay, Oregon. Stacy wants everyone at the dance, no matter their skills or their politics. She wants a dance week that will bring people together and perhaps change a town.

The Age of Autism is based on the groundbreaking book of the same name, by Dan Olmstead and Mark Blaxill. (Blaxill is the advisor on this project).
We follow Autism's trajectory from it’s first reports in the 1930s, (with little Donald T.) and fuse the observations of the past with the tools of the present, to paint a broader picture of what Autism meant then, and what it means now.

This series will immerse you into the artwork through interviews, painting sessions, re-enactments, and live studio walkthroughs, giving you the opportunity to interact with history in a way you’ve never experienced. Additionally, the documentary will bring in museum curators, aviation art collectors, veterans and authors. The Art of Aviation will illuminate the field of aviation artistry, as well as educating audiences about the contributions aviation artists made to war efforts, such as participating in espionage and intelligence collection. This docuseries will engage art history enthusiasts, aviation aficionados, and military history buffs alike.

5 years after committing a hit-and-run, Briar Morrison is released from prison. Paranoia strikes deep as the surviving victims of his crimes begin to stalk him. All the while, Briar grasps for the life he once had, attempting to reconnect with his ex-wife and daughter. But parallel to the family he killed, his past has wrecked any chance of salvaging the family he has. With nowhere to go and no one to confide in, Briar has been discarded.

The classic story of a donkey, a middle-aged man and his Bigfoot alone in the woods trying to flood the earth.

Tom McDaniel is a conspiracy theorist living way off the grid trying to build the world’s largest cloudbuster, presumably to green the deserts and save the world. With the help of a local Bigfoot, Tom discovers the key to making the cloudbuster function. When the storm finally crashes in, it lays bare Tom‘s darkest intentions. The audience enters hislife at a pivotal moment: the completion of the prototype.

Logline: A Baobab tree and a human become friends, but when the human dies, the tree must learn to accept and process his grief.

Description: A short, animated film about friendship, losing loved ones, and handling grief, emphasized through highlighting the special customs and burial ceremony of an indigenous people living in Tanzania; the Barabaig Tribe.

Black men are threatened profoundly every day in White America but also work tirelessly to overcome the adverse effects of racism in their lives professionally and personally.

A boy living in the countryside in the 1950s, left alone by his friends and parents on his birthday, discovers a Jackalope. Though he pursues the mythical creature it alludes him, leading him on an obsessive search for the creature. The short explores childhood, innocence, and imagination.

She just wanted to be called by her name. After being asked out for a date by her platonic love, a 390-pound romantic and dreamy woman, who is bullied every single day, decides to lose weight for good. However, this will change her life completely in a way never imagined.

In an early Mars colony where pregnancy is banned and resources are scarce, an older Black scientist fights efforts to terminate her surprising pregnancy.

A man, Mr Skyness, is in the intensive care in the hospital, infected by covid 19. Suddenly a vision of a big bat appears at the window and he's drawn into a flight that changes his current circumstances.

Animation/metaphorical story inspired by the covid 19 pandemic, and the likelihood that the virus came from bats. It addresses the perspective of what can inspire human beings to change in challenging times, and the benign symbolism that can be perceived amidst a catastrophe

The Gift focuses on mental health and the traumatic impact it has on the individual and those whom they love. A chaotic family party erupts amidst a mother’s impending death to highlight the lack of support adult men sometimes encounter in coping with life’s struggles. The Gift asks the question of a society that often overlooks a person, who on the outside, appears to hold it all together. The film follows Nick's journey as he struggles to manage the end-of-life care for his mother while his siblings seem oblivious to the toll it is taking on his well being. The purpose of The Gift emerges as the story is told: Supporting and listening to those who deal with trauma, especially adult men.

When the world’s richest woman finally dies, her dysfunctional family gathers to see who gets which slice of the multi-billion dollar pie. What follows is a hilarious untangling of lies and betrayal.

The Heart of Long Beach is an anthology film where diverse cultures shine through the streets, uniting short stories of struggles, triumph, hope, pride, and love throughout the city.

A transformational film made to help us with the conflict of following passion while living reality.

An isolated teenager explores the past and his late father through the use of celluloid on his 16th birthday.

In 1942, months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, a Los Angeles journalist fearing another Japanese attack, reluctantly teams up with a Japanese-American photographer to investigate a string of recent unidentified aircraft sightings.

This film is a USC MFA Thesis film.

The Long Rescue, a feature-length documentary, begins where most trafficking stories end: after the rescue. Following teenage survivors in Cebu, Philippines, the film explores how girls can recover from deep violation to find stability, love, and personal agency. Over six years, they grow from idealist teens into struggling young women – sobered, but driven by hard-won inner strength.
The film opens at the hidden shelter of My Refuge House, where the girls are full of laughter and song, eager to work toward a brighter future. In a world shrouded in confidentiality and shame, these teens want to show their faces and speak their truth. But as they leave the shelter, ghosts of the past emerge.

A Texas rancher inherits his great-great grandmother's stone farmhouse in Gettysburg, and after finding a secret time capsule, he and his wife unlock mysteries of his grandmother's past that may or may not, should have stayed hidden.

The protagonist is Summer Ray, a free spirit struggling with a past that tries to dominate her and pull her back into the life of darkness she grew up in. Yet, an unexpected trip to the Gettysburg Battlefield changes the course of her life forever. She unknowingly helps to awaken the Union and Confederate Unknown Soldiers and comes face to face with an angry ghost, the Union Colonel McDaniels. The antagonist, Woeburn also demands her demise! Will faith win?

This is the third part in a trilogy of historical fiction films after "La Noche Antes" (2006) and "La Notte Prima" (2007). We explore what a public figure may have thought and said in an intimate conversation the night before they died. In "The Night Before" Black slave Sara Hemings fights for her freedom, and for that of her children with Thomas Jefferson, at the Virginia estate “Monticello” on the last night of Jefferson’s life, July 3, 1826. Opposing her is a White granddaughter of Jefferson, who tries to convince him to sell Sarah and the children on the slave auction block.

Logline:
Small town boy finds love through his Church and later, as an adult, suffers the loss of a guiding figure which shows him his true self.
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Studio 301's Mission:
Our mission is to tell stories on behalf of those who seek to do more good. “The Note” will become a portfolio piece for Studio 301 - a demonstration of our ability to elevate the voices of the most marginalized and vulnerable in our communities. Leveraged correctly, it will show others that we truly can make a difference through the art of storytelling. As the saying goes, no one trusts you to build a building until you’ve built a building.

Logline: When a person living with Alzheimer’s doesn’t recognize his wife and asks her to leave their home of twenty years, she must find a way back to care for the man she loves. Comps: This story is what you would get if you combined Still Alice with The Vow. The blend culminates in a heartfelt story of love, loss, and the strength of the human spirit. Tag Line: Their life together shattered before she could wipe the sleep from her eyes.

An exploration of end-of-life issues through the eyes of a mother and son. After a diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease and after a lifetime of being dominated by the expectations of others, Fran makes the most consequential decision of her life and wants to exercise some control over her life before all control is taken away. Her son Terry, struggling to accept it, wants to parent the parent and cast a deciding vote in his mother’s quality and duration of life.

"The Phoenix" is a short film about a young girl who acquires superpowers and tries to mend her parents' struggling marriage.

The Power of the Drum is a feature documentary exploring the mystical world of African-rooted drumming and its incredible power to heal, communicate, and transform through its complex history and rich culture.

The film traces its roots to the Motherland and its journey through the Middle Passage, which helped lay the groundwork for its development as a powerful healing instrument.