Nicole Rocklin

Collecting stories about the political commodity of water and food in third-world countries and how a people either are fed or starve depending on whatever entity is in control.

The drama is inspired by a number of different stories that piece together a narrative about starvation in third world countries.

Here is the complete list of nominees for the 88th annual Academy Awards, as presented by Ang Lee, Guillermo Del Toro, John Krasinski and Academy president Cheryl Boone Isaacs.

The 2015 Gotham Awards, celebrating the year’s best in independent film, were held in New York on Monday. Tom McCarthy’s Spotlight was the night’s big winner, receiving Best Feature, Best Screenplay and a special jury award for Ensemble Cast Performance. See the full list of winners and nominees here.

Logline: Two escaped convicts hide out on a college campus.

Logline: Story follows a man who has to hire private investigators to do background checks. When he hires someone to investigate himself, he finds out much more than he bargained for.

Logline: Follows the true story of Linda McNeil, a repair woman who went undercover as a hitman when she was contacted by Joseph White, drummer for the 1970’s supergroup The Stylistics, to kill his wife Cheneta Yates.

Logline: Centers on the true story of the investigations, cover-ups, and journalism it took to uncover the Catholic molestation scandal that rocked the world.

Logline: Alexandra Benno, a teenage girl who can summon super-idealized parallel-dimension versions of herself, is recruited by the government for espionage work where her doppelgangers always get the credit.

Logline: When Samuel finds himself exonerated after a 25 year sentence in federal prison for the murder of a young girl, he is faced with a younger brother he barely knows who has become a gangbanger, and the brother of the murdered girl, who can’t quite reconcile himself to Samuel’s innocence.

Logline: Tells the story of Anthony Thomas, as he launched on to the scene as a hit choreographer, who also created the “pop and lock” style of dance that revolutionized hip hop dance.

Logline: A high school dropout teams up with his friends to build a multi-million dollar drug operation.

Logline: When a parking valet’s crush becomes an obsession with a female customer, he begins systematically inserting himself into her daily life.

Logline: Centers on Alyssa Hale who is confined to a psychiatric ward, joins forces with her psychiatrist to break the curse that has plagued her family for generations.