Days in the Dark: The Life of Vito Russo is a biographical film about the famed Gay Rights leader whose affinity for cinema sparked a life of writing, romance, and activism.

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Dead Horse Lake is a neo-noir crime thriller about a young cocktail waitress in love with a hit man who’s forced to walk a fine line when the hit man’s boss falls for her.

Writer/Director: Michael Graf
Producer: Sara Dahmen

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When she spends a weekend at a lake cabin with a friend she's known her whole life, seventeen-year-old Noa learns that trust has a texture - and it peels.

Writer/Director: Alex Jiang
Producers: Brian Goodwin, Maya Zaleski
Director of Photography: Leo Zhang

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Haunted by anxieties he’s long ignored, a reserved Black man finds his psyche transformed into a twisted nightmare where his hidden fears take on a monstrous life, jeopardizing his relationship and his grip on reality.

Writer/ Director: Malachi Moore
Producers: Hae Ji Cho, Megan Darling, Kristen Semedo
Cinematographer: Brook Lee Karner

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When Penny's queer-platonic significant other Luke "ghosts" her after an inseparable 13-year-long relationship, she must find closure on her own.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer: Guilermo Diaz
Writer/Producer: Mallie McCown
Producer: Lindsey McGowen
Cinematographer: Rinny Wilson

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Two transgender men meet at the funeral of the esteemed captain of the Lavender League, a community bowling club for older lesbians. Grief and desire seep together as the death of a queer matriarch transforms a community left behind.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Editor: Lyle Kash
Producer/First AD: Ariel Mahler

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The story takes us into the colorful pop-culture world of these four 13-year old friends, back in the days when video games were still a novelty. Mimaw and her friends Paolo, Kachi and Gilligan go on a journey of self-discovery together as they play games and wrestle with new dilemmas - puppy love, circumcision and other horror stories.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Producer: Valerie Castillo Martinez
Director: Raya Martin
Cinematographer: Ante Cheng
Editor: Cyril Aris

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After Black nurse and physiotherapist Bessie Blount witnesses a wounded soldier struggling to regain basic independence after WWII, she decides to create a device that will allow him a simple pleasure: to eat alone. The only problem is...she’s never invented something before.

Writer/Director: Candace Mae
Producer: Sydney Sheren
Producer: Amirah Adem

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Four college kids with fracturing relationships take a camping trip to Southern Utah in order to escape an ecological disaster up North. Alone in the desert, they begin to suspect that their reality might not be as it seems and soon realize they’re being watched.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Matt Warren
Producer: Larissa Beck
Producer/1st AD: Josh Long
Producer/Locations: Aaron Nelson
Cinematographer: Matthew Rogers
Composer: Randall Taylor

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In a 19th-century Colombian convent, an earthquake leaves the mother superior grievously wounded. In the days that follow, her body succumbs to a mysterious affliction, while she is haunted by enigmatic and mystical visions.

Writer/Director: Fernando Iriarte
Lead Producer: Paola Pérez
Producers: Rodney Llaverías, Santiago Porras

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Maya accompanies her father to work on one of his usual Chinese fast-food delivery runs. However, this time, she worries her father may be in danger.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Amy B Tiong
Producer: Izzy Vasquez
Production Company: Digital Bodega

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The summer before Phoebe Lee leaves her home in Mississippi for college, she attempts to reconcile with her older brother.

Project type: Fiction Short
Project status: Development
Director: Jing Ai Ng
Producer: Sandra Tan
Director of Photography: Jan Riscbieth Córdoba

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When a young border patrol agent discovers a dying migrant in the Yuma desert, she’s forced to confront the brutal realities of her job. Backyard/Desert is a haunting exploration of morality, identity, and the invisible lines we draw between right and wrong, self and duty, and one another.

Director: Curtis Whitear
Producer: Nicholas Bruckman

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Against the dynamic political landscape that marked the end of the Vietnam War, Inez Victor navigates between her role as the wife of U.S. Senator Harry Victor and her enduring romance with Jack Lovett, a CIA agent and alleged war profiteer.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Screenwriter/Producer: Carey McKenzie

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Dénouement is a melodrama focused on the mundane. Ned waits in a hotel suite combing through the detailed belongings of his boss Lara, as we discover not only are they having an affair, but tonight it’s coming to an end.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Brian Goodwin
Producer: Alex Jiang

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In 1920s Stockholm, an old Jewish baker with a mysterious past battles a young mobster for control of his beloved bakery—all in Yiddish.

Writer/Director: Ruben Levi
Producer: Zach Fineblum
Executive Producer: Malla Grapengiesser

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Traumatic Brain Injury survivor Derek Dabkoski enrolls in a dangerous and experimental stem cell surgery to hopefully repair the damaged area of his brain as he and his wife Nadia, who has lived in the US for 30 years without ever being granted a green card, expect the birth of their first child, a daughter named Carmen.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Derek Dabkoski
Co-Director/Producer: Ian McClellan
Cinematographer: Im Joong Kim

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1979 - James Do, a drifter, finds himself in the mystical Sedona. He meets a young GURU and her devotees who opens his mind to a new path.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Sharmila Ray
Producer: Matt Keene Smith
Director of Photography: Kinsey

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Ten-year-old Lucca and his mother, Sonia, share an inseparable bond. But when Sonia’s manic depression becomes apparent to those around them, societal stigma and misconceptions about motherhood begin to drive a wedge between them—a gap they struggle to bridge, only to discover that love alone may not be enough.

Director/Writer: Camila Zavala
Producers: Camila Zavala, Giancarlo Nasi, Enid Campos

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Beatrice does her best to impress her new boss at a dinner party fraught with infidelity, murder, and veganism.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: David L. Charry
Producer: Casey Vickers
Executive Producer: Joelle Monique Smith
Director of Photography: Favienne Howsepian
Production Designer: Mikela Mosley

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