Marla Freeman

Four women hiking on a trail question their lives and find they have similar frustrations and challenges. In the midst of child raising, marriage, and aging, many women feel lost. These women not only find each other, but they find themselves, on a journey of self-awareness, support, and friendship.

Samantha Rose is a coming of age story shot on location in the Pacific Northwest. Centering non-binary actor, Sam Rose, the film is a tale of a young woman battling family codependence and aimlessness alike. Sam returns to her hometown in northern Oregon and is reunited with a childhood friend and his misfit commune of friends where they work the fall harvest on the surrounding vineyards. This ragtag family of runaways are fearless and free, leading Sam on a journey of discovery and healing. There are motorcycle rides and homemade wine, midnight swims and bonfires, horses, camping, and a love story that unfolds as Sam comes to see her life for what it really is: her own.

Surveilling a drug deal pivotal to a federal narcotics case, the small yet resilient task force in charge quickly finds their investigation in jeopardy when a mysterious group of individuals hijacks the drug deal and begins leading the federal agents toward a larger and more complex mystery that lies just under the surface, one that has entangled itself within the roots of their already tenuous case.