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As a storm passes over a small Southern town, two long-time friends drink cheap whiskey, trade familiar jokes, and quietly avoid the looming elephant in the room that neither are ready to face.
Producer: Yoni Azulay
Producer: Virginia Newcomb
Director of Photography: Yuqian Zhang
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In a world where teleportation has made all other means of transportation obsolete, we follow the last traditional commuter through his city's once-vibrant streets. We see this stubborn outsider cling to his outdated routine in a society that has left the daily commute behind.
Writer/Director: Madison Lin
Producer: Phoebe J Yung
Producer: Jake Behn
Producer: Michael Farmer
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Emerging Artists LA offers access to the film festival experience FREE to filmmakers and film aficionados alike. Submitting a film is free and attending the festival is free and that’s the way we’d like to keep it!
Project type: Festival
Curator/Program Director: Erica Mountain
Curator/Art Director: Carla Harris
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A self-conscious high school senior navigates first love and the uncertainty of her athletic ambitions all while trying to make it to graduation.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Jackie Mahoney
Producer: Annie Huang, Paulina Jaskiewicz
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Asher (she/they, late 20s, Chinese American) spends her last night in Shanghai with Hip Hop dance teacher Tori (she/her, late 20s, native Chinese). Their attraction towards each other grows as the night progresses. But Asher knows that it’s unlikely they will see each other again after her return to Los Angeles.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Shan Jiang
Co-Writer: Ashley Jiang
Producers: Jane Zheng, Kennie Zhou
Co-Producer: Sol Ye
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Set in an alternate West Asia never colonized by European powers, Even a Dog in Babylon tells the story of Jamshid, a young man from Shiraz, Iran, who is recruited to work on a VR game that simulates alternate realities, including uncanny visions of “our” world: displacement, violence, and borders.
Co-Writer: Matt Polzin
Director: Lior Shamriz
Co-Producer: Mahshid Modares, Azad Azizyan
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Following her grandmother’s death, a young woman journeys to the Blue Ridge Mountains with the man her Nana loved late in life to honor her memory.
Writer/Director: Natalie Jasmine Harris
Producer: Yoko Kohmoto
Producer: Ryan Arrington
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A Black high schooler prepares for senior picture day but insecurities and a tense friendship start to transform her into something abnormal.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Alexander Casimir
Writer: Mackenzie Chang Russell
Producers: Mackenzie Chang Russell & Lexi Notrica
Executive Producers: Lizzie Frankenthal & Jessica Carlson
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Max, a high school senior, has led his younger cousins through childhood; but as the summer after graduation winds down, his cousins have one last chance to tie him down in Illinois, forcing max to decide what's more important: his family or his future?
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Cole Bacani
Producer: Lily Norris
Producer: Norrie Palmer
Executive Producer: Jason Y. Lee
Cinematographer: Brian M. Tang
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A young woman suffering from trauma-induced memory loss finds herself spiraling dangerously out of control as the impending anniversary of the event nears, threatening to destroy her carefully crafted veneer of normalcy, her relationships and even her life.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer, Director, Producer: Christina Hulen
Producer:Staci Witt
Producer: Kim Turner
Producer: Lisa Crnic
Cinematographer: Nacia Schreiner
Production Designer: Andrew Hammer
Cast: Charlotte Rothwell
Cast: McKenna Slone
Cast: Michelle Clunie
Cast: Chopper Bernet
Cast: Rick Otto
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At a Catholic high school in 2009 New Jersey, a closeted queer Filipino-American teen—born with HIV—has his status outed by his eye doctor, who also happens to be the mom of the school’s most popular girl. But a chaotic day ends in refuge with his ride-or-die friends, a high school dance, and a shared Four Loko.
Writer/Director: Timothy Guion Smith
Producer: Michael Moskewicz
Producer: Cecilia Ye Suil Kim
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A group of passionate and rambunctious students compete for the Exploration Station lunar science prize, by inventing the most imaginative, visionary, and lunatic creations they can think of. If only they knew science!
Director: Richard Tucci
Cinematographer: Alessandro Gentile
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When her mother’s addiction threatens to derail Easter Saturday, a young Ukrainian-American girl goes through great lengths to participate in her family’s gradually abandoned Ukrainian traditions.
Writer/Director: Zonia Pelensky
Producer: Helēna Šania Volbeta
Cinematographer: Ella Gibney
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After losing his sister to a stray bullet in a gang-related shooting, societal pressures from his environment of Compton, California push Jeremiah to respond.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: James Grisom
Producer: Letia Solomon
Co-Producer: Allison A. Waite
Co-Producer: LaDarius Torrey
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As the spectre of war grips us today, Rachael, a lonely puppet artist recreates the perilous trek of her mother from Burma to Bengal during WWII and survival in India.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Sourav Sarangi
Co-Producer: Humaira Bilkis, Miriam Chandy Menacherry
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Reality and artificial reality blur when a young girl begins to suspect that her father isn't her real father, but rather a paid actor.
Project type: Fiction Short
Project status: Development
Writer/Director: Kelly Yu
Producer: Ally Cheng
Producer: Connor Williams
Virtual Production Supervisor: Nhan Le
Production Designer: Shi Min Yong
Director of Photography:Philips Shum
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A Jamerican artist returns to Jamaica on a grant funded journey, where she meets a feisty college dropout who can’t get off the island fast enough. As their lives enmesh, the unlikely duo slowly realise how foreign they are– to their cultures, their families, each other, and eventually themselves.
Writer/Director: Danielle Fuller
Producer: Denyvi Rose, Nadera Herbert-Bey
Executive Producer: Zuri Marley
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A film about fashion’s impact on the environment and the designer who’s doing something about it, “Fashion Reimagined” follows Amy Powney of London brand Mother of Pearl who decides at the height of her career that she can no longer participate in her industry’s destructive cycle. Instead, she sets off to produce a sustainable collection from field to finished garment, a pioneering journey across three continents that tests her strength and belief in humanity.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Becky Hutner
Director of Photography/Editor: Daniel Goetz
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Autistic father Clay takes his 15 year old son Sam on a spring break road trip, but doesn't reveal that the trip's real goal is to reconnect with the wife/mother that left them fifteen years ago.
Writer/Director: Josh Long
Producer: Mike Leahy, Alyssa Radmand Devine
Director of Photography: Antonio Cisneros
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The arrival of a shaman scholar on a colonial estate in 1950s India - causes two part-tribal maidservants to transgress against their English Madame - dismantling the old structures and reclaiming their lost wild mystical powers.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Nihaarika Negi
Producer: Nancy Degnan
Producer: Tobias Reeuwijk
Executive Producer: Ron Yerxa
Executive Producer: Albert Berger
Co-Producer: Pale Rebel Productions
