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Anita

After allowing a gay screenwriter into her home, singer and orange juice spokeswoman Anita Bryant is forced to confront her past as an anti-gay Christian crusader who successfully campaigned to overturn a gay rights law in Florida and whose polarizing views destroyed her show biz career in the process.

Dangerous Odds

Marisa Lankester, a young beautiful woman, becomes an insider of the sports betting empire run by Ron "The Cigar" Sacco. She falls in love with his business partner, and moves the business with him from L.A. to Vegas and then the Dominican Republic, where gambling is legal. While she becomes a top model as well as a gambling mogul there, her existence devolves into a nightmare of incarceration and rape, before she finally escapes. She now lives in Switzerland.

Everest

In 1924, George Mallory makes an ascent of Mount Everest. But he and Andrew Irvine mysteriously never return from their climb. His legacy involves the possibility that he, and not Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay in 1953, was the first man to reach the summit.

One Thousand Paper Cranes

The story of Hiroshima survivor Sadako Sasaki and author Eleanor Coerr, who wrote the worldwide bestselling children’s book “Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.

Skinny and Cat

During a short marriage, writer Erskine Caldwell and photojournalist Margaret Bourke White collaborate on a number of books.

The Great Escapers

The story of Bernard Jordan’s (Caine) escape from his care home in 2014 to attend the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings in France.

The Paladin

Winston Churchill orchestrates a shift in the war through a top-secret program where he turns a 15-year-old boy into one of England's deadliest assassins.

The True American

Set in Texas in the days following 9/11, the story focuses on Rais Bhuiyan, a Muslim immigrant and Bangladesh Air Force veteran who narrowly survived a killing spree that took the lives of two other immigrants.

Waco

Story of the 1993 standoff between the FBI and Texas state law enforcement and the David Koresh-led Branch Davidians.

Axis Sally

Based on the true story of a woman who unwittingly became the voice of German propaganda targeted to American troops during WWII.

Dallas Sting

The story of how a group of girl soccer players headed to China in 1984 as the ultimate underdog and beat some of the best women’s teams from China, Australia and Italy.
Location: US - Louisiana

L.A. Riots Project

The film will cover the events of April 1992, when the acquittal of four L.A.P.D. police officers for the near-fatal beating of Rodney King led to devastating riots in Los Angeles that left more than 50 dead and 2,300 injured.

Lady Business

Two young female entrepreneurs, Penelope Gazin and Kate Dwyer, had to invent a third male company founder in order to be taken seriously in the business world.

Lee

American fashion model, artist and war correspondent Elizabeth "Lee" Miller is a muse and collaborator to famous artists such as Pablo Picasso and Man Ray, an acclaimed photojournalist documenting some of the most important moments in history, a witness to wartime atrocities and one of the most glamorous women of her time.

Monty Clift

A method actor who refuses to put his private life on display, Montgomery Clift graduates from stage roles to screen success in films that include "A Place In The Sun" and "From Here To Eternity." His matinee idol good looks are destroyed by a devastating car accident that leaves him with a broken nose and facial scars. Though he continues to make movies, the accident haunts him until his death, even though he receives an Oscar nomination for one of his last performances in Judgment At Nuremberg.

Peggy Jo

A true-life tale of Peggy Jo Tallas who robbed Texas banks in the early 1990s while posing as a man.

Slinky

Richard James's wife Betty James takes over the struggling business after her husband leaves her with their six children and a nearly bankrupt company. Toy success results through determination.