When Gidon Lev was just 6 years old, he arrived at the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. When he was 85 years old, he took social media by storm.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Yaniv Rokah
Producer: Vickie Rose Sampson
Executive Producer: Elliot V Kotek, Andy Lewis, Danny Cohen

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In pursuit of a perfect showcase monologue, an insecure 17-year-old risks her mental and emotional wellbeing to win the approval of her demanding, but respected drama teacher.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Khana Tillman
Producer: Adetola Omilana, Coleman Weimer, Harlow Brooks, Tola Omilana
Cinematographer: Miley Luo

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Coached by a group of dedicated police officers, the 2020 Minneapolis North High School football team battles to win a state championship in the midst of the covid pandemic, the death of George Floyd, and the resulting riots that turned the city against the police, setting a community on edge and their neighborhood on fire.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Jeffrey Williams
Producer/Cinematographer: Jon Cermin

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After vowing never to return, a young woman must come home for Christmas to save her father from trapping himself inside his few remaining memories.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: R Cadell Cook
Producer: Shandra L McDonald
Producer/Actress: Melan Perez

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A Black man seeks the assistance of a trademarking agency to prepare for his inevitable encounter with the police.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Antonio Harper
Writer/Director/Producer: Abby Burton

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A departed Ojibwe journeys to the afterlife, while a surviving relative finds resilience in the departed’s footsteps.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Alex Nystrom
Producer: Jeff Walker
Producer: Jeremy Charles
Producer: Lisa Normand
Producer: Rudy Jones
Cinematographer: Mike Maliwanag
Lead Actor: Benny Wayne Sully

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After a nearly invisible mutant fly breaks loose from a Manhattan bio lab, it follows Francis around biting him until finally he looses all sense of self.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Producer/Director/Editor:Harrison Gambelli
Cinematographer: Jesse Moritz
Production Designer: Sydney Gayle Amanuel
Post Sound/Score: Alex Wiederock

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Malcolm Jamal Turner, a struggling writer living in Harlem fed up with the neighborhood's changing demographics, concocts a ludicrous scheme to "de-gentrify" it.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Actor: Washington Kirk
Executive Producer: Miles Hodges
Actor: Ron Canada

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In this surrealistic tragicomedy, Joy, 35, visits an offbeat fertility clinic to freeze her eggs after a series of romantic misadventures…only to discover that she is pregnant.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Maya Albanese
Producer: Valerie Steinberg

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A shadow trail leads into a black hole, where a child disappears every 8 minutes. From The Shadows is a rocky journey through the Indian subcontinent’s most trafficked route, unveiling a sisterhood of survivors and stories of resilience.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Producer/Director/Screenwriter: Miriam Chandy Menacherry
DOP: Ranu Ghosh
Co-Producer: Aliya Furniturewala
Co-Producer: Sheena Matheiken
Co-Producer: Anand Ramayya
Co-Producer: Gary Byungseok KAM
Consulting Producer: Claire Aguilar
Consulting Producer: Alysa Nahmias
Consulting Producer: Nilotpal Majumdar
Impact Producer/Screenwriter: Triparna Banerjee
Impact Advisor: Rebecca Lichtenfeld
Impact Advisor: Ragnhild EK
Production Manager: Sharon D’Mello
Researcher: Nandini Dhar
Editor: Irene Dhar Mallik
Associate Editor: Anuja Thakar
Music: Parvathy Baul
Sound Designer: Mohammed Fibin

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At the outset of the MeToo Movement, María, a disillusioned capoeirista in the Bay Area, California, whistleblows on her teacher for his past sexual abuse. Meanwhile, a litany of pedophilia scandals spanning decades surface in Capoeira in Brazil. María returns to Brazil for the first time in many years, exhuming her distant past, as she looks for justice and redemption for the art form she has dedicated her life to.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Co-Director/Director of Photography: Adam Golub
Co-Director/Writer: María Schindler
Editor: Thiago Zanato

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Rottenpotatoes98 and Lil_Quacko are best friends– online. When they accidentally meet in reality, their friendship is put to the test.

Writer/Director/Producer: Rachel Moss
Director of Photography: Kelsey Talton

Producer/Production Designer: Marissa Goldman

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GenXX is an organization whose mission is to raise awareness and create directing opportunities for the generation of talented, experienced, and vetted women who were overlooked - lost between sexism and ageism. Through the organization we will be making multiple films helmed by Gen X women directors.

Project type: Organization
Director/Producer/Writer: Susan Dynner
Director/Producer/Writer: Maria Burton
Director/Producer/Writer: Monique Sorgen
Director/Writer: Nandi Bowe

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After discovering a hidden figure beneath an important nineteenth-century painting, Monica, an art conservator, struggles to restore a potentially objectionable portrait.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Grace Philips
Producer: Kinder Labatt
Associate Producer: Shelby Philips
Director of Photography: Andreas Roalsvig

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Nearly two decades after losing his eldest brother to gang violence, social worker J.R. Angeles embarks on an intimate journey with his father and late brother’s teenage son through grief, cultural identity, and healing, revealing a story that honors the sacrifices and resilience of countless Filipino immigrant families in California.

Director/Cinematographer: Jon Pham
Producer: Selena Leoni, Fiona Hardingham, Marques Mallare

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Legally divorced but bound by Jewish law, agunot—'chained women'—turn to Brooklyn activist Adina Sash as their last hope for freedom. Defying centuries of tradition, Sash leverages social media and bold, unconventional campaigns to fight for the liberation of Orthodox women.

Director: Katie Paul
Producer: Grace Sin

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A lonely programmer makes a startling discovery that upends her place in the universe.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Project status: Development
Writer/Director: Michael Reisinger
Producers: Adia Stark, Andrew Baird, Michael Reisinger, Molly Burnett

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In a small town in Ecuador, teenager Diana runs away from an institution for troubled girls with her toddler. The goal: to pick up her younger sister from their abusive childhood home and start a new life.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Maria Abraham
Producer: Luz Agudelo Gipson

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A young, gay Black man escapes the Southside of Chicago in 1978 to join the United States Navy, only to find himself at the center of Manhattan's 1980's art scene as Robert Mapplethorpe's partner and inspiration. Now 67, and an artist himself, Mr. Walls can only look back by doing what he's always done: By looking inward, and forward.

Producers: Adrian Pasdar, James Rasin, Emily Wiedemann

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A grief-stricken therapist determined to help a suicidal teen regains her faith in the process with the help of her Salsa instructor and pastor.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Jess Thomas
Writer/Producer: Anayancy Thomas

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