The Team
James Douglas
Ethan Sosnick
Mohamad Mogharbel
Who We Are
JEM Studios is an independent production company built on collaboration, craft, and a commitment to stories that matter. Based in New York, we develop and produce narrative films across short and feature formats.
Upcoming Projects
Bleeding Hearts
Five children of privilege discover that wealth is the only thing their family ever shared.
Bleeding Hearts follows the Müller family — a wealthy, deeply dysfunctional Jewish-German dynasty — across a single summer and into New Year's Eve in New York City. Anchored in their Southampton estate and Manhattan apartment, the film traces the slow unraveling of a family held together by money, façade, and suppressed resentment.
At the center is patriarch Friedrich Müller, a man of formidable stature whose grip on the family is loosening. Around him orbit his five adult children: Eva, the controlled eldest; Rabin, the newly married golden son; Hannah, navigating her own quiet dissolution; Felix, the charming, self-serving youngest who schemes behind a smile; and Isaac, the volatile, music-driven wild card whose chaos barely conceals real pain. The youngest brother, Alexander, moves through the margins, carrying a secret of his own.
What begins as a celebration of Rabin's wedding spirals through betrayal, substance abuse, financial deception, sibling warfare, and explosive family dinners. On New Year's Eve, as tensions reach their breaking point, Friedrich collapses — and the family's every wound is laid bare at once. The film ends not with resolution, but with silence: Isaac running home through snow, and a window left open.
At the center is patriarch Friedrich Müller, a man of formidable stature whose grip on the family is loosening. Around him orbit his five adult children: Eva, the controlled eldest; Rabin, the newly married golden son; Hannah, navigating her own quiet dissolution; Felix, the charming, self-serving youngest who schemes behind a smile; and Isaac, the volatile, music-driven wild card whose chaos barely conceals real pain. The youngest brother, Alexander, moves through the margins, carrying a secret of his own.
What begins as a celebration of Rabin's wedding spirals through betrayal, substance abuse, financial deception, sibling warfare, and explosive family dinners. On New Year's Eve, as tensions reach their breaking point, Friedrich collapses — and the family's every wound is laid bare at once. The film ends not with resolution, but with silence: Isaac running home through snow, and a window left open.
Southern Nights
A Southern crime thriller about greed, loyalty, and the cost of wanting more.
In rural Hampton County, South Carolina, a quiet night turns violent when Omari, a disciplined enforcer for an Atlanta crime syndicate, transports a thief who has stolen a cocaine shipment and a large sum of cash from his boss, Quentin. When the thief escapes into nearby farmland, gunshots echo through the fields. The thief dies—but the black duffel bag containing the money and drugs is nowhere to be found.
Nearby, Billy Caldwell and his younger brother Jimmy, two farmhands living modestly on their employer's land, hear the shots and rush toward the noise, believing someone is illegally hunting on their property. Instead, they arrive in the aftermath of the confrontation. By morning, law enforcement recovers a black bag containing six kilos of cocaine. Unknown to anyone else, the Caldwell brothers took the money. Half a million dollars to be exact.
As the investigation struggles forward in a town with limited resources, Omari quietly remains in Hampton, determined to recover what was lost before Quentin's patience runs out. Pressure builds, what begins as a chance discovery soon spirals into violence. In the end, the fortune that promised freedom brings only destruction.
Nearby, Billy Caldwell and his younger brother Jimmy, two farmhands living modestly on their employer's land, hear the shots and rush toward the noise, believing someone is illegally hunting on their property. Instead, they arrive in the aftermath of the confrontation. By morning, law enforcement recovers a black bag containing six kilos of cocaine. Unknown to anyone else, the Caldwell brothers took the money. Half a million dollars to be exact.
As the investigation struggles forward in a town with limited resources, Omari quietly remains in Hampton, determined to recover what was lost before Quentin's patience runs out. Pressure builds, what begins as a chance discovery soon spirals into violence. In the end, the fortune that promised freedom brings only destruction.
