Tick Tick Tick Tick

An unconventional thriller about a bomb placed in a public high school.  The story is told in a four-way split screen showing four uncut 90 minute shots.  Each screen follows one character.  One of the screens follows the kid responsible for planting the bomb.  The others follow students who are involved in stopping him.  At first no one believes the prankster who discovers the bomb, and the movie culminates in a shootout followed by the disarming of the bomb.

Loco Parentis

            When a relatively new female teacher at a high school learns that the boys are all looking at nude photos of one of their female classmates, she confronts the principal about how to handle it and is informed that if the pictures are treated as pornography, then the girl could be considered a pornographer.  In an effort to help combat the rash of circulating photos, the teacher (herself a victim of sexual abuse) begins deliberately incriminating and embarrassing the guilty boys, herself going way beyond the bounds of legality or morality in the process.

The Christy Sisters and the Case of the Hidden Ring

Two high-school Nancy Drew style detectives begin investigating a small mystery, perhaps the disappearance of a school trophy or something equally banal, only to watch it spiral insanely out of control and lead them into an enormous and very adult conspiracy involving sex-trafficking.  The girls emphatically resist involving the authorities as they want to solve the case themselves, but eventually they have no choice.  The trafficking ring is successfully disbanded, but the girls’ innocence is lost.