Dirt Merchant (1999)

Praising Black representation and condemning the power structures that suppress it, a mother delivers an impassioned speech to her distant son.

Stand and Deliver is an inspirational classic from 1988 starring Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante, and his class of rag tag students in East Los Angeles. It’s the story of how a new teacher shows a motley group of students in the inner city with backgrounds as gang members, dishwashers, and mechanics — the power of self-determination. He teaches the teenagers to believe in themselves through algebra and calculus.

A surprise sequel takes place ten years after the original movie based on the title of the same name, but with a twist to the fairy tale.

SPOILERS AHEAD. Premature is a story about the pain of love and realities. Transitioning from youth to our perspective of adulthood, how do we grapple with loss?

World-famous drag queen Trixie Mattel shares a year of her life with the world in this vulnerable and uplifting documentary.