Sofia works as a location scout for a TV pilot filming in New York City. It’s her job to find the homes, businesses, and exteriors where the show will be filmed. Driving around the city’s different neighborhoods, she enters the private spaces of strangers to photograph their cozy apartments and eclectic shops, stepping into the fabric of their lives while trying to satisfy the demands of her erratic employers. Over a day filled with these encounters, Sofia witnesses moments of curiosity, vulnerability, and quiet tension until her work takes a sudden, personal turn. Drawing from her own experience as a location scout, writer-director Paula González-Nasser captures the poetry and costs of being a young creative. Her celebrated directorial debut The Scout crafts a contemplative exploration of urban disconnection, following one woman’s journey through other people’s worlds as she struggles to find her own.

Following the finale of his TV series, filmmaker John Wilson looks to the bedrock of his beloved New York City for inspiration and structure. Concrete, the world’s most widely used building material, appears as an ever-present life force, and John sets out to make the definitive documentary on the matter. To tell this seemingly drab story, he decides to use the industry-approved Hallmark formula to increase his movie’s appeal. But his foundation soon begins to crumble—literally and figuratively—as he struggles to balance artistic freedom with the realities of the modern film industry.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 ~ In the haunting feature debut from writer/director Adrian Chiarella, two teenage boys (Joe Bird, Stacy Clausen) must escape a violent entity that takes the form of the person they desire most — each other. $1 STUDENT NIGHT TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE ROSS BOX OFFICE.

WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21 ~ For 19-year-old Jay (Maika Monroe), the fall should be about school, boys and weekends at the lake. Yet after a seemingly innocent sexual encounter, she finds herself plagued by nightmarish visions and the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. As the threat closes in, Jay and her friends must find a way to escape the horrors that are only a few steps behind. $1 STUDENT NIGHT TICKETS AVAILABLE AT THE ROSS BOX OFFICE.