After reconnecting with a woman from a past she prefers to forget, Brooklynn, a self-assured perfectionist, is torn between remaining true to her homophobic upbringing or expressing her stifled sexuality.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Aliya Brooks

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Following the murder/suicide of brothers River (15) and Jet (13) by their father Shan Collins, mother Kerrith McDowell, a nurse practitioner, confronts the many institutional failures within the mental health and law enforcement systems in Raleigh, North Carolina that cost her sons their lives even though she was uniquely positioned to seek help from within these failed systems.

Director/Producer: Trish Ward-Torres
Editor: Rachael Wax Taber

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When civil engineers from a distant universe propose destroying all life on Earth in order to extract a rare metal found at our planet's core, three innocent field agents are sent to gather information about Earthlings and decide our planet's fate.

Writer/Director/Producer: Ariya Akhavan

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A young woman, haunted by a traumatic past, seeks out a controversial therapist who creates hyper-realistic scenarios for patients to live out their violent fantasies against abusers and those who have wronged them. But she's carrying a secret even the doctor may not be ready for.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer: Patrick Andrew Jones
Director: Michelle Beck
Producer: Aisha Jordan
Producer: Rafael Jordan
Editor: James Donahue

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A punk band moves into a remote cabin in the woods to record their new album and unwittingly unleash an unspeakable cosmic horror.

Screenwriter: David Gantz
Director/Writer: Theo Cohn
Producer: Zoe Rosenberg
Director of Photography: Ben Mullen

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When Ezra's past and present collide in a surreal encounter with his younger self, he's forced to confront long-buried family trauma that could change the course of his life forever.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Jordan K. Paul
Executive Producer: Darryl ‘DMC’ McDaniels

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Mia and her brother Alex find a powerful stone that thrusts them into different paths while bringing them closer then they've ever been.

Project type: Animation
Writer/Director: Fabian Molina
Producer: Ariel Mahler

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It’s 2008 and Maxine’s sanity is crashing almost as fast as the economy. She always imagined that at 24 she’d be climbing the ladder towards success, but her reality is far from that. It will take an unexpected mission involving a hamster named Donut to change her life forever.

Writer/Director: Ari Basile
Producer: Troian Bellisario
Producer: Cheryl Nichols

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A reclusive young classical composer with writer’s block attempts to find inspiration at an old family lake house but instead discovers a mysterious sound emanating from the bottom of the private lake. In the face of failure, she must confront the lake, her family’s dark past, and her broken present, to uncover the music she has deep within her.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writers/Directors: Matt Valdez and Collin Davis
Producer: Sid Ganji, Alex Knapp, Alex Schwarm

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Downstaged is a coming-of-age drama depicting women desperately seeking love and validation from men who, in turn, can’t even love or validate themselves. These lives suddenly intersect on a fateful night, catapulting forever changes. Viscerally explore our culture’s intrinsic patterns of toxic masculinity, self-doubt, and internalized homophobia where trauma is nurtured and pain is cyclical.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Project status: Development
Director/Producer: Ana-Julia Cavana
Producer/Director of Photography: Valentina Martinico

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A young Black basketball prodigy struggles with the burden of single-handedly saving his family from hardship on the night of the NBA draft.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Tom Glinkowski
Writer/"Pops": Shawn Williams
"Number One": Joseph David-Jones
Producer: Jillian Nordby, Sierra Oleson, Avery Chung-Melino
Cinematographer: Kenzen Takahashi

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Never before seen archival video reveals the untold story of an underground LGBTQ nightclub that became a political and creative center for a community besieged by AIDS and discrimination. As club owners Paul V. and Mr. Dan prepare for the Dragstrip 66 finale, patrons, staff, and celebrities reflect on their memories and impressions as the beloved nightclub comes to the end of its historic run.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Phil Scanlon
Co-director/Co-producer: Paul Vitagliano

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After sending their dying father on a last trip back to his native Hawai’i, a pair of middle-aged twin sisters try to turn their cat-sitting duty into a bonding staycation, but find that old childhood antics won’t work to fix their grief—or their fractured relationship.

Writers/Directors: Yadao Twins
Producer: Lisa Yadao, Irene Yadao, Michelle Sampior-Castaneda

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After having her bright and spunky spirit beaten down one too many times by her abusive husband, Earl, Frankie accidentally kills him. Her best friend Ava Mae helms the escape, and in their police chased mad dash to ditch the body, Earl transforms into a loveable zombie. Breaking up really IS hard to do... But one way or another, EARL’S GOTTA DIE.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Heather Shapiro
Writer/Co-Executive Producer: Amanda Hinkley
Producer: Faoileán Cosgrove

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In the shadow of Silicon Valley’s power, East Palo Alto confronts displacement and long-delayed investment after decades of redlining and environmental injustice. Through its youth, community partners, local leaders, and a reimagined police force, the city attempts to build a Civic Commons that can heal historic harm. As East Palo Alto reclaims its narrative, who will its future be built for?

Project status: Development
Co-Director/Producer: Tracy Chitupatham
Co-Director: Jake Thomas
Director of Photography: Bryant Swanstrom

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Amid the fading heat of a Louisiana summer in the early 2000s, a young motel caretaker forms an unexpected connection with the appraiser hired to assess his struggling family property, stirring feelings that challenge his understanding of himself and the life he has inherited.

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In 1986, a spirited high school student attempts to find his long-lost father by setting off a device that sends him and a young diner server into a dangerous parallel world.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Travis Misenti
Producers: Hadrien Fages, Miriam Arghandiwal
Cinematographer: Dante Cheng

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A burned-out ICU nurse and a retired racehorse with an injury unexpectedly form a bond that leads to a new future for them both.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Annika Hylmo

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Shelly finds her impulsive husband leading their two young children on a crusade to egg the house next door. Appalled by her family’s behavior and against her husband’s wishes, she goes to apologize -- but is quickly blindsided by her neighbor’s unexpected response. As Shelly tries to model grace for her children, she discovers she’s still wrestling with her own pride.

Writer/Director: Zachary Wiesel
Producer: Will Noyce
Cinematographer: Shane Bagwell

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A POW aboard a roaming dieselpunk labor camp is cornered on his last day by a radical mycologist who claims to possess the secret to saving their war-ravaged world.

Project type: Fiction Short
Co-Writer/Co-Director: Benjamin Pierson
Co-Writer/Co-Director: Sascha Montgomery
Executive Producer: Salem Daniel
Line Producer: Brianna Fish
1st Assistant Director: Samuel Bear
Cinematographer: Daniel Kleen
 

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