Posts by Jeffrey Ring

After years spent searching the world for spiritual enlightenment, an estranged former doctor returns home for his father’s shiva, where seven days with the family he left behind force him to reconsider what he’s been searching for.

Searching for an elusive company in an English village, a successful tech entrepreneur enters a mysterious storefront that repeatedly transforms around him, propelling him through increasingly surreal worlds that challenge everything he thinks he understands.

After a fall forces her into in-home care, a grieving Colombian widow struggling with memory loss begins to blur fantasy and reality, as loneliness and longing complicate her relationship with the caregiver now sharing her home.

A risk-averse actuary looking for something more creative stumbles into the chaotic world of independent filmmaking, where an unlikely opportunity begins a reinvention she never saw coming.

A financially desperate quality-control specialist tests a cutting-edge AI medical platform on himself, only to discover that as pressure mounts to impress investors, the most dangerous flaws may lie with the people controlling it.

Six emerging Chicago artists struggle to turn creative ambition into actual careers, navigating friendships, money, near-misses, and small victories while confronting a question every aspiring artist eventually faces: what does “making it” actually mean?

What begins with the purchase of a classic Mercedes 300D becomes a personal journey through family, memory, frustration, and humor, exploring how an ordinary possession can quietly become a vessel for the lives we’ve shared.

A determined performer gets one last chance to prove herself, but as rehearsal intensifies, artistic ambition and personal insecurity begin to collide, turning the pursuit of a better performance into something far more revealing.