'Pain Hustlers' (2023): An Opioid Crisis
What starts off as a success story for a single mother living below the poverty line, slowly begins to weave itself into a tangled web of greed, guilt, and destruction.

A better life is to begin for street child Anna in the mountain wasteland of all places. Where psychiatry and youth welfare services fail, only the experience of one's own limits can help, according to the mission of the unconventional educator Geena. On her mountain farm, she wants to reawaken a feeling for the existentially important things in life in her protégé through clear rules and daily work on the mountain pasture. But the unruly and disturbed girl has little faith in herself and the suffering she has experienced has left deep wounds in her childish soul...
What starts off as a success story for a single mother living below the poverty line, slowly begins to weave itself into a tangled web of greed, guilt, and destruction.
In less than 30 minutes, Proudfoot guides the viewer through a narrative that touches on American history, mind-health issues, race, and gender politics
'Midnight at the Paradise' premieres tomorrow at Toronto's Paradise Theatre! I had the pleasure to sit down with Vanessa Matsui to discuss the making of this film.
One Night in Miami... did not frame the racism and bigotry as something that could be solved by quality time spent between individuals. Instead, it featured four different legends of Black History together in one room disagreeing for about 2/3 of the film.
A K-9 police dog goes undercover to stop an illegal animal smuggling ring and learns a valuable lesson along the way.
A pop star at Radio City Music Hall gets the opportunity to change herself to save her music career.