Wendy Kesselman

This all-woman production is set in provincial France in the early 1930's. Two young, country sisters enter domestic service in the bourgeois household of a penurious widow and her homely daughter. Neither pair speaks to the other: two sets of women separated and confined by social convention, personality, and the house itself... (imdb)

Four friends with one dark secret they could never outrun. (imdb)

Prep school student Daisy and her European-born grandmother Nana share the sad stories of their lives: Daisy tells Nana of her romance with young Ethan and problems in school because she's Jewish; and Nana tells of her young years under Nazis when she was sent to ghetto and then to concentration camp. (imdb)

Angelita, a 9 year-old girl from Guayanilla, Puerto Rico, and her mother journey to New York, full of high expectations, to join her father who has been struggling to set up a decent home for them in the Bronx. The world of Guayanilla where unemployment is rampant, poverty is the rule but a strong support system of family and friends keeps spirits high is compared with the world of New York, a bleak concrete mix of overcrowded tenements, joblessness and crime that slowly grinds the spirit down.