DEVELOPMENT
Fortunate Cookie
A homeless teenage girl dismisses an unusual message she finds in a fortune cookie until she’s given a chance to turn her life around.
Ginger is a homeless teenage girl who ran away from her family after a devastating tragedy. She finds an unusual message in a fortune cookie addressed specifically to her. It portends that she has the power to turn her life around but Ginger immediately dismisses it as a joke. That night she rescues a very young, scared runaway, Natalie, who refuses to talk. Emotionally damaged, Ginger doesn’t want to get involved and takes her to Laura, the owner of Hope House, who tried but failed to help her years before. The mystery surrounding what happened to each girl unfolds as Ginger slowly realizes she can’t turn her back on the girl who reminds her so much of herself. She helps Natalie reconcile the trauma that caused her to leave home by finding the courage to share her own story of loss and pain. Ginger’s selfless act opens the way for her to begin to heal her own heart. A shortfilm by Wendy FIshman.
Miracle In Christmas Town
A girl's wish to live in a magical Christmas Village challenges her perception of happiness amid her parents' divorce.
A Miracle in Christmas Town is the story of eight-year-old Kyla, who is devastated that her parents are divorcing and won’t be celebrating Christmas together. To escape her anger and pain, Kyla makes a wish to live in the magical Christmas Village display that has been in her family for generations. When she gets her wish, Kyla realizes that maybe that’s not what she wants after all.