Julia Thompson

Ladders

When a Dominican teenager attends a fundraising gala for her youth mentorship program it forces her to face some uncomfortable truths about her place in the world.

Touch

When a fourteen year old girl's obsession with the new swimming instructor sets her into a world of undiscovered feelings, she travels between adolescence and womanhood, leaving childhood forever behind.

Putzel

For Walter, a young man endearingly known as "Putzel," life literally doesn't go beyond his neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Walter's dreams of taking over his family's smoked fish emporium are disrupted by the arrival of Sally, who starts a relationship with his about-to-retire and very-married uncle. In order to secure his future, Walter attempts to thwart the budding romance and falls for Sally too - throwing everyone's lives into hilarious chaos.