Subtractive

Taking place during the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, this coming-of-age thriller is framed against the backdrop of West Los Angeles' punk and skateboard culture.

A dog groomer in Hollywood aspires to be more than a dog groomer in Hollywood. Michael Pinkney is a man struggling with his lower income lifestyle in the shadow of the film industry. HIs job is degrading, his home is filled with rats, and his mind constantly wanders into a lo-fi dreamscape that mirrors his analog video experiments. Michael's menial routine spirals out of control when he meets Cora, the girl of his dreams.

When Joy Pride, a groovy 70s burn-out on the caboose of the flower power movement learns she has weeks to live, her estranged children come together to do right by a mother who always did them wrong. It's based on the premise that no matter who dies, we always find a way to make it all about us.

An analog guy in a digital world, JJ and the musicians that made Austin great are under siege by gentrification and the influx of tech money from California. As Austin grows will JJ be another casualty of the rapidly changing times?