Matthew J. Schroeder

Sister Wives

Two young women living in a strict, fundamentalist, polygamous society, Kaidence and Galilee, find themselves bound to one another, under the same roof, in the same marriage, as they develop scary, new, exciting feelings for each other. In a harsh, regressive, watchful community where being queer is considered a cardinal sin, they begin having thoughts of leaving the only life they have ever known behind.

Realness with a Twist

A talented footballer's world collides when he is forced to battle between his secret passion for voguing and his teammates' approval.

Things Unheard Of

Ten-year-old Sevîn wants to make a Kurdish-language television for her bedridden and mute grandmother.

Curiouser

When a young girl struggles with self-identity and reaches out for help, she is thrown into a surreal world with bizarre encounters with herself to find out who she really is.

The Rev

Once, Neil Marlow's life was a spontaneous festival of frivolity, friends and funk music. Now, it's one of OAPs, weekly bingo and ready-meals. Neil Marlow (aka The Rev) has chosen a life of the cloth above a life of liberalism. Like so many before him, he is convinced that his sexuality and extroverted personality are incompatible with his religious beliefs. This is the story of that struggle. The struggle of repression and rejection, of the vain attempt to leave a part of himself behind in the belief that he will somehow be happier if he inhibits his true self.

The Staying Kind

Florence Albertine is a 26-year old widow. Her husband, Charles, a soldier in the United States Confederate Army, left home ambitious and determined to resist invasion from the North and was killed in action by a Union cannon strike. Victor, their 7-year old son, understands why his father isn't coming home and cares for his mother through her own attempts to do the same.

Infinite

In his last months alive a young man calls upon his four closest friends to make his existence infinite through the assembly of five key elements from his life.