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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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When a spiritual man is faced with a possible illness, his belief system is questioned and he’s forced to step into his authentic self in order to heal his emotional pain.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Sebastian LaCause
Producers: Roxanne Morrison, Jai Rodriguez
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Set in 1970, the mother and daughter of a notoriously rich family cope with the return of their lost child/brother.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Quinn Sheehan-Hipple
Co-Writer: Oliver Heffron
Producer: Stephen Fitzgibbon, Corrine Dye
Cinematographer: Christopher Blauvelt
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A quiet, college wrestler struggles to save his home from foreclosure, protect his younger sister and cope with the return of their absentee mother.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: C.A. Barrow
Producer: Robin Rose Singer
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The 12 best Indian ballers from around the world join forces to compete for $1 million dollars to show the world Indians can hoop on ESPN's international stage.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer/Executive Producer: Shubhangi Shekhar
Executive Producer/Lead Talent: Gautam Kapur
Executive Producer: Akhil Hegde, BFD Productions
Producer: Kunal Patel
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Set at the bohemian commune where famed erotic artist Tom of Finland lived and worked, House of Leather follows two queer artists from Asia and a Trans artist from Michigan, visiting for summer residencies. As these young heroes explore their creative identities in the context of gay history, the multi-generational community rallies to protect their safe place, advancing Tom’s legacy of freedom in a modern era.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Jamison Rockmore
Producer: Nicolas Blanco, Don Hardy, Justin Levy
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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer: Jen Kim
Director/Co-Writer: Omer Ben Shachar
Producer: Jason Eisner
Producer: Bara Kim
Cinematographer: Kai Krause
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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Producer: Mark Tenn
Director/Producer: Alvaro Donado
Cinematographer: Daniel Andrade
Production Designer: Alicia Herrera
Casting Director: Amy Devra Gossels
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Tyra Patterson is a mentor, a motivational speaker, a paralegal, and is just one of the many marginalized black women affected by mass incarceration. She spent 23 years of her life in prison for a murder she didn’t commit. Hers is an All-American Story, from the parts of America that our society has all but abandoned. Through her fight for freedom and exoneration, we weave a narrative of hope and redemption for young women impacted by the broken justice system.
Project type: Nonfiction Episodic
Director/Producer/Director of Photography: Laurence Mathieu-Leger
Producer: Ebyan Bihi
Producer: Tyra Patterson
Producer: Lauren Hannan Shafer
Executive Producer: Cathrine Gund
Executive Producer: Agnes Gund
Executive Producer: Sara Vance Waddell
Executive Producer: Michelle Vance Waddell
Executive Producer: Thalia Mavros
Editor: Rosella Tursi
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A girl with an intellectual disability, who dreams of making her local rec basketball team, trains with a former basketball star who’s fallen on tough times after a family tragedy. Together, they form an unlikely friendship and have the chance to prove everybody else wrong.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Christopher Baxter
Producer: Andrew Pilkington
Producer: Angel Williams
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When rent gets raised, Mike and his post-grad buddies make the most of their last year living together, before losing their dreams in the digital age. As reality closes in, the comfort of their aimless routines starts to unravel, forcing Mike to decide whether to finally move forward or keep coasting in the city that never quite felt like home.
Writer/Director: Ben Oliphint
Producer / Actor: Matthew Wassong
Co-Writer / Actor: Co-Writer/Actor
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Like marionettes on a toy stage, the ghosts of Masao’s past haunt the countryside in this tale of a Hawai‘i family facing the imminent death of their eldest.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Christopher Yogi
Producers: Sarah Kim
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A modern day poet muses on how the AIDS crisis prepared him for Covid, and opened the gates of grief for healing. His own poetry found in an old notebook unearthed during Covid, brings the AIDS crisis to life, with all its sadness and fierce friendships. Political activism and art meet in this window into the past.
Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: Annie O'Neil
Cinematographer: Samantha Isom
Editor: Will Allen
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Desperate to sell her childhood home, Nikita, a queer South Asian woman, discovers what’s making the place “unsellable”: the ghost of her deeply religious, recently deceased mother, who will do whatever it takes to get to Heaven.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Lead Actor/Producer: Rita Sengupta
Writer: Jyostna Hariharan
Director/Producer: J. Mehr Kaur
Producer: Alisha Bhowmik
Executive Producer: D'Lo
Cinematographer: Neeraj Jain
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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Konstantin Pivovar
Producer/Co-Director: Lilia Le Dieu
Director of Photography: Luísa Dalé Silva
Supervising Sound Editor: Andrey Dergachev
Composer: Juan Luqui
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Grieving parents struggle with the loss of their daughter. An elegy on grief.
Project type: Animation
Writer/Director : Will McCormack
Writer/Director: Michael Govier
Producer: Maryann Garger
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A matriarch, a prostitute, and a teacher, yearning to heal their own internal wounds, embark on a perilous journey through the snowy west, to try to save a young girl from parenthood.
Writer/Director : Kylie Mungenast
Producer: Destiny Greer
Producer: Liz Davis
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A small crime creates ripple effects in a neighborhood that brings devastating consequences, pushing race relations further in reactionary fallout.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Chloe Owens
Producers: Tamara Rhoads, Markus Linecker