Fugitive at 17 (2012)

This inspiring true story falls nothing short of filling the audience with a passion to strive for their wildest dreams.

Netflix’s Shadow and Bone has a complicated relationship with race. It has a diverse cast, but not without its problems. Based on Leigh Bardugo’s two book series, the show features characters from the Shadow and Bone trilogy, which is very straight and white, and the Six of Crows duology, which is much more diverse. When bringing together a cast and writing about these characters, the team behind the show expanded upon some of the representation missing from the first trilogy, then seemed to take away representation from the duology. Shadow and Bone seems to play a bit of a push and pull game when it comes to portraying diversity onscreen.

An action-packed adrenaline rush with a diverse cast that delivers evocative storytelling.

By depicting 4 different stories, Director Sergio Tovar Velarde keeps the focus on the shared humanity and search for love (both self and romantic) of various gay Mexican men.

Crossroads follows a young guitarist on a journey through the American South in search of blues history and his own voice.

With the theme of unemployment, it presents a family fantasy anecdote rather the a comment on social problems.