Ideal Partners Film Fund

Birds of America
HDA regular guy struggles with a repressive home and professional life, as well as making amends for the trouble his free-spirited brother and sister cause about town.

Tenderness
HDA policeman works to figure out whether a violent teen murdered his family.

The Answer Man
HDA reclusive author of spiritual books is pursued for advice by a single mother and a man fresh out of rehab.

Motherhood
HDIn Manhattan, a mother of two preparing for her daughter's sixth birthday party has no idea of the challenges she's about to face in order to pull off the event.

Dirty Girl
HDIt's 1987 and Danielle, the high-school 'Dirty Girl', is running away. With her is chubby, gay Clarke, a bag of flour called Joa and a Walkman full of glorious '80s tunes.

An Invisible Sign
HDMona Gray is a 20-year-old loner who turned to math for salvation as a child after her father became ill. As an adult she now teaches the subject and helps her students through their own crises.

The Inevitable Defeat of Mister & Pete
HDA coming-of-age story about two inner city boys who are left to fend for themselves over the summer after their mothers are taken away by the authorities.

Strange Weather
HDin an effort to deal with the grief over the death of her son, a Georgia mother travels the back roads of the deep south to settle a score. A story of grief and forgiveness, of looking inward to find a way to move forward.