A camera team follows a group of wannabe filmmakers who travel to shoot an apocalypse feature on a farm in Kentucky as they desperately eke out meaning in the time of COVID-19.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Actor/Writer: Izzy Shill
Producer/Actor: Felipe Dieppa
Producer/Actor: Diana Irvine
Editor: Drigan Lee
Actor: Geoff Marslett

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A young mother kidnaps her own daughter down the golden coast while dodging sugar daddies and law enforcement.

Writer/Director/Actor: Hannah Marianetti
Executive Producer: Tchaiko Omawale
Producer: Carissa McElravy

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A quarterfinalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, this drama feature with a sense of humor is about a lone transgender teen who helps a feisty undocumented Asian woman escape deportation, and they form an unlikely friendship that helps them heal their relationships with their own families.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Tricia Lee

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Paralyzed from the neck down at 26, Ian MacKay never stopped moving, swapping a bicycle for a motorized wheelchair. As he attempts to break the World Record of 173.98 miles traveled in 24 hours by a mouth-controlled wheelchair, he redefines what it means to be a paralyzed athlete and does it with a community of friends and family that are proof it takes a village.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Corbett Jones
Producer: Dominic Bernacchi

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Grace is Black Southern Gothic narrative short film set in the 1950s about a young girl coming into her womanhood and sexuality.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Natalie Jasmine Harris
Producer: Morgan Powell, Julia Kennelly, Latavia Young
Director of Photography: Tehillah De Castro
Cast: Mikayla Lashae Bartholomew, Jordan Wells, Alexis Cofield, C.L. Simpson, JeVon Blackwell

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After a confrontation with the man who is both the head of her order and her abuser, a nun must navigate the increasingly harrowing nature of her reality and learn to speak her truth to free herself.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Ercoli Crugnale
Producer: Amy Geist
Director of Photography: Paloma Criollo
Production Designer: Ming Fen Congdon

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A border vigilante, at the US/Mexico border, detains immigrants crossing illegally. His world is torn apart when an undocumented man and his daughter break into his house.

Project type: Fiction Short
Project status: Post-Production
Director/Writer: Angelita Mendoza
Producer: Alicia Herder
Director of Photography: Victor Capiz

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Growing Up: The Urban Farming Revolution uncovers the rise of urban farming and vertical agriculture as ingenious solutions to food security, environmental sustainability, and urban space constraints, showcasing a worldwide movement where cities cultivate their own future by growing fresh produce within their concrete jungles.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Cinematographer: Jacopo Campaiola
Producer: Sara Kaye

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A troubled young actor returns home to see his ailing mother after being estranged from his family, but when he walks through the front door, his life magically becomes a sitcom.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer:Derek Manansala
Director:Grace Hanna
Producer: Eduardo Maia

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A wide-eyed art handler and a naïve young art student receive a surreal introduction to the absurdity of the fine art world while delivering a racially charged work of art.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Chester Vincent Toye
Executive Producer: Hank Willis Thomas
Producer: Anne Alexander
Executive Producer: Alexandra Pechman

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A road trip drama about a mom who tries to do right by her daughter, but winds up doing everything wrong...

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer/Writer: Nina Martinek
Writer/Producer: Boris Frumin
Composer: Daniel Schnyder

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A bipolar girl breaks up with her psychiatrist.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Erica Cantor
Producer: Emma Flanders
Actor: Emma Raimi
Actor: Robin Roth
Director of Photography: Adam Birch

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Happy Sabbath is a story about a young man reconnecting with his estranged mother expecting a handout. In his search for financial support, he learns family secrets that can forever rock everything he knows to be true.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Producer: Brian Grigsby
Director: Steven Lloyd Bennett
Producer: Albert Lopez

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A 10-year-old Chinese American girl who suspects that her mother is cheating after overhearing a mysterious phone call decides to investigate it by herself, only to find the harsh truth that she's been disregarding.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Yimeng “Yuki” Yuan
Writer/Producer: Yuky Shen
Producer: Pablo Zamorano

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A humble virtuoso walks unwittingly towards death while traveling the world playing his last concerts, reflecting on his life musically, professionally, personally, and spiritually. Trumpet legend Roy Hargrove is celebrated through priceless footage of his final days and treasured memories from music industry legends.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Eliane Henri/Poplife Productions
Cinematographer: Robert Benavides

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Due to job losses in early 2020 caused by the pandemic, an African-American family of four is living out of their hatchback car until the next pay day arrives. The family dreams of just one night in a motel. But each passing day living out of their hatchback vehicle brings new setbacks that push that dream further and further out of reach.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Lynelle White
Producer: Kellianne Jordan
Producer: Anita M. Cal

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When two women’s emotional wounds collide in a sauna, one storms out, leaving the other trapped - questioning whether the betrayal was deliberate or just a cruel accident.

Director: Elizabeth "Ella" Danna
Writer/Producers: Becca E. Davis
Director of Photography: Rebecca “Reb” Richard

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International human-rights advocate, Cara Yar Khan, battling an aggressive, fatal, muscle-wasting disease ventures out on a daring, 12-day Grand Canyon expedition on horseback and in whitewater rafts. But a journey that begins as a dramatic advocacy effort, quickly becomes an exercise in survival when Cara suffers a head injury one hour into the descent. And as the expedition team confronts unanticipated dangers in a remote wilderness that threatens to kill, wound, or undo them without warning, they also come face to face with their own individual demons. Her Inescapable Brave Mission is a story of fear, adrenaline, hubris, courage, and perseverance against the odds. A transformational journey for anyone who's ever found themselves, inescapably, on the edge of a cliff.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Celia Aniskovich
Producer: Liz Yale Marsh
Producer: Wendy Eley Jackson
Executive Producer: Sam Pollard

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A scrupulous teenager loses the young girl she's babysitting at an idyllic playground, forced to confront an insidious entity hidden among the children.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Felipe Vargas
Actor: Xochitl Gomez
Producer: Nicole Crespo

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An anxious woman meets two men - one a scientist, one not - who work to ease her mind by supplying a unique embrace from their homemade robot.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Producer/Actor: Eric Rudnick
Actor: Kareem Ferguson
Robot Fabricator and Technician: Alan Timm
Robot Technician: Walter Martinez
Cinematographer: Davey Robertson
Art Director: Rebecca Scott
Production Sound Mixer: Ryan Graff
Producer: Cameron Fife
Producer at Large: Mike McNamara
Consulting Producer: Gabby Revilla Lugo
Script Consultant: Pilar Alessandra
AI Specialist: Sabri Sansoy
Robot InMoov Designer: Gael Langevin

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