Todd Rotondi

It's San Francisco in 1957, and an American masterpiece is put on trial. Howl, the film, recounts this dark moment using three interwoven threads: the tumultuous life events that led a young Allen Ginsberg to find his true voice as an artist, society's reaction (the obscenity trial), and mind-expanding animation that echoes the startling originality of the poem itself. All three coalesce in a genre-bending hybrid that brilliantly captures a pivotal moment-the birth of a counterculture.

A young woman who has tragically lost the love of her life stumbles upon a powerful phenomenon while grieving at a place very special to them, a small pond.

Missy (Justina Valentine), a recovering drug addict balances her dysfunctional family, a heroin addict father (Lenny Clarke) and her street bred brother (Johnny Hickey). These lives intertwine with the collateral damage of the Boston's "Methadone Mile"" - A homeless safe haven for drug addicts, where three methadone clinics, the Boston County Jail, and two homeless shelters encompass a three block radius in the heart of Boston. Missy's journey is a roller coaster ride of releasing with the drugs destroying everyone and everything around her, as she fumbles to find GOD and redemption.