Grasshoppers

A once promising opera singer finds herself years later as a stay-at-home mother.

Where the Buffalo Roam is a film about the fear of change and leaving the comforting arms of home. Wandering amongst the plotted rows of houses within the motherly arms of the suburbs, two brothers take advantage of the hours that most spend asleep. They sip liquid courage and shout their dreams aloud, only to hear them echo back in the brisk midwestern fall air. Twenty-four year old Brad commemorates what seems to be his last night in the suburbs alongside his older brother Tyler, who is on the brink of turning thirty and still living at home. As the hours dwindle until dawn, Brad struggles to confront the realization that all things must change.

A married man tries to lure his wife away from their own dinner party moments before the guests arrive.

Roberto E. Olivera (67) has spent his life working the fields of Ventura County. As a boy, he survived poverty and a brutal stepfather. This film follows Roberto, now an old man, for one day, as he tours the fields where he used to work and recounts the lesson his late mother taught him — that everything in life is temporary.