Michael Schwartz

The Peanut Butter Falcon

Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz

Shia LaBeouf, Zack Gottsagen

A down-on-his-luck crab fisherman embarks on a journey to get a young man with Down syndrome to a professional wrestling school in rural North Carolina and away from the retirement home where he’s lived for the past two and a half years.

The Moped Diaries

Nick Vitale, Tyler Nilson

Tyler Nilson, Duncan Silver

Levi is a boy growing up on an island off the coast of North Carolina. When a new bridge is built connecting his island to the mainland he has to come to grips with the change and opportunities that come along with it. Love of home, love of a partner, and love of family all seem to be falling apart and slowly pushing him towards the inevitable, crossing that bridge himself to see what lies beyond the horizon.

The Winter Of The Beard

Jefferson Pitcher, Michael Schwartz

Lannie Achord, Benjamin Jahn

A beard-growing documentary that's somehow not really about growing beards.

Untitled Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz Project

Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz

A Cuban story that will be shot largely in Spanish with a very naturalistic vibe in the vein of American Honey. Set amid the heightening AIDS epidemic of the early ’90s, the story is said to follow two brothers in the Cuban punk movement who enter a sanatorium to escape poverty.