A middle-aged woman, struggling to make ends meet and survive in remote desert town, stumbles onto a dead body and nearly a million dollars in cash. Along with her best friend, the two are swept up in a chaotic world of drugs and bad cops. The choices they make along the way make all the difference as they discover what's most important in life.

After moving to The Coterie in Downtown Los Angeles, Callie and Mariana Foster realize that living on their own is not all that it’s cracked up to be.

When Naomi, a young autopsy assistant at the LA County Coroner's office, realizes her brother has gone missing on the night of a police shooting, she is forced to confront her worst fear, that his body may be in the morgue.

A Middle-Eastern country, at civil war. Amine, 10 years old, lives with his mother and infant sister in a makeshift home. Between bursts of machine gun fire, he survives. One day, tied to the foot of a carrier pigeon, he finds a tiny message scroll.

After crossing into the U.S. with no family to speak of, young Cecilia finds herself in the charge of Francisco, a lonely Cuban immigrant long separated from his own family. Francisco operates a way station for border crossers on the outskirts of Lake Los Angeles, a surreal, desiccated lakebed in the California desert. While he copes with the alienation of living alone in a foreign land and the impossibility of realizing the American dream, Cecilia aimlessly wanders the dusty landscape, accompanied only by her fantastical imagination and distant memories of motherly love.

Saul Sanchez returns home to the rough Los Angeles neighborhood of Highland Park, also known as The Avenues, after serving a decade-long prison sentence. Once back, Saul seeks a reunion with his estranged young daughter. Guided by a sympathetic parole officer, who discovers his hidden illiteracy, Saul begins writing a letter to his daughter and begins a journey of self-discovery amid pressure from his gangland Avenidas familia. As Saul separates himself from old friends, he mentors a troubled teenage neighbor following an all-too-familiar gang path. Based on a true story, "Avenues" tells a deeply personal story of fatherhood and the isolation felt by former convicts.

On a cross-country trip to visit sites of US terrorism, four friends confront true stereotypes.

On a cross-country trip to visit sites of US terrorism, four friends confront true stereotypes.

While serving a 33-year sentence, a spiritual awakening led drug lord Esteban Mendoza Cruz to form a church in Mexico's most corrupt prison. With a congregation of more than 600, Cruz sows hope both among inmates and in the community at large.

A detective's partner is murdered. In his quest for revenge, he falls deep into the corruption plaguing the police force, and he must choose between revenge or doing the right thing.