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After Harrison starts to experience some insecurities in his relationship, he finds himself in an identity crisis trying to figure out what it means to be a man.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Producer: Kelley Kali
Producers Reggie Lochard, Eric K. Thomas
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Opening night. Greenwich Village, New York. The year is 1821, before the abolition of slavery. Two theatre companies next door to each other put on a production of ‘Richard III’. However, there’s a difference between the two: One is a white theatre company, The Park Theatre, and the other, a Black theatre company, The African Company.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer/Writer: Kamilla Blanche
Executive Producer: Olga Garay English
Narrator: Clarke Peters
Music Supervisor/Composer: Gail Ann Dorsey
Historian: Margit Edwards
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A military wife and mother struggling to balance all the pieces of her life breaks down when she realizes that the life she had planned for herself may not be possible.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Producer/Actor: Kay Barnes
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Shaken by the social unrest in her community, a young girl witnesses a horrific crime outside her window and unwittingly beckons the spirit of Harriet Tubman to help her right some wrongs.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Aimiende Negbenebor Sela
Producer: Ricky Rosario
Executive/Creative Producer: Raquel Tresvant
Executive Producer/Actor: Rasheda Abdullah Hairston
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As vampiric hedge funds suck up and devour local newspapers across the country, a group of Baltimore journalists, backed by a billionaire philanthropist, band together to save local journalism in their city.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Josh Davidsburg
Producer/Cinematographer: Krishnan Vasudevan
Producer: Alanna Delfino
Producer: Gene Deems
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Three homeless friends living on the street, are waiting for the bus that will take them to the city of Angels, where dreams can come true.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer/Executive Producer: Coxy Chiara Rodoni
Producer: Gaëlle Jaunay-Calendini
Cinematographer: Adam J. Hahn
Composer: Dónal Rafferty
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On Christmas Eve, a teenage girl visiting her old-school grandma in Kentucky gets an unexpected lesson on how to show compassion for others during the holidays.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Julia Maddox
Producer: Mark Lamb
Cinematographer: Prabhat Gurung
Cast: Carol Niswonger
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A wild 24-hour first date entangles two quirky, broken individuals, each concealing a deep, dark secret.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Nicholas Pallos
Producers Andrea Monier, Talia Bella, Steven Step (EP)
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A woman reflects on her past and wonders about her future - while she happens to be having an abortion. This is a story about a person apart from the procedure as captured during her in-clinic abortion, casually, vulnerably, and in real time.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Producer/Writer/Actor: Emily Goss
Actor: Laur Allen
Editor: Shayan Ebrahim
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An aging blues musician, convinced his late wife is trapped in a song, believes she’s been kidnapped by a group of lo-fi hip-hop producers in Oakland.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Screenwriter: Ed Ntiri
Producer: Winnie Wong
Cinematographer: Melinda James
Music and Community Culture Consultant: Jason G. Ragonton
Advisor: Andre Torres
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Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Actor: Christian Hurley, Ben Oliphint
Producer/Actor: Matthew Wassong
Writer/Actor: Will Ammann, Dylan DeVol