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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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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Geraldine and Marshall need everything to be perfect and they work very, very hard to keep it that way, thank you very much. But when one of them questions the rigid rules of their game, their literal reset button stops working and they are forced to confront reality or risk losing each other forever.

Writer/Producer: Jessica Mosher
Director: Laura Seay
Producers: Keith Rubin, Farhana Jamal

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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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