When a woman plans a romantic evening to win back her emotionally distant boyfriend, the night takes a chilling turn when desire turns into desperation to preserve her fairytale ending.

Director: Tanya Martineau
Writer: Raisa D'Oyley

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Intrepid student filmmaker Thomas Reilly-King (affectionately known as TRK) will do anything to complete his first feature film, aptly titled Enduring Destiny. Searching for fame in a production spanning several years, the unflappable writer/director/actor calls in every favor and spends every last dime to realize his vision and bring his hero’s story to the big screen.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Project status: Post Production
Director/Producer: Curtis Matzke
Producer/Cinematographer: Ben Sherman

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A guarded man forms a quiet, transformative bond with his neighbor, discovering that tending to life—plants, people, and memory—can open even the most protected heart

Writer/Director/Producer: Beverly “BJ” Rouse
Producer/First Assistant Director: Lenny Payan
Cinematography Consultant: John Simmons

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Sardonic 28-year-old Jules has been sober for a year, but she can’t stop vomiting fish. Striving to put her life back on track, she must preserve control when a fish enthusiast unexpectedly enters her life.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Wendi Tang
Producer: Philip Yuzhong Ge
Executive Producer: Rui Mo
Director of Photography: Jay Swuen
Production Designer: Cyrum Aytana Ramirez

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Two brothers inherit the wounds of an absent father, leading to deception, escapism, and a breaking point.

Writer/Directo/Producerr: Trevor Traynor
Director of Photography: Gregg Conde
Editor: Erick Cummings
Executive Producer: C.Y. Lee

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A sports drama based on a true story, a coach and a group of eight boys from the Oregon School for the Deaf overcome tremendous odds and defy expectations to win the 1986 Oregon State Track and Field Championship.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Jevon Whetter
Producers: Delbert Whetter, John Eraklis

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When Franny starts a romantic relationship with a girl in her rural town, her newfound freedom and independence threatens to expose her family's dark secret.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Sarah Nixon
Producer: Gracie Bellissimo
Cinematographer: Indeana Underhill
Executive Producer: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum

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A filmmaker tries to fix her problems with her evangelical father in a screenplay with a happy ending. When her plan backfires, she quits writing lines, starts to listen, and becomes a character in her own film.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Katy Scoggin
Unit Production Manager: Jamie González
Cinematographers: Spencer Worthley, Sarah Ginsburg, Nathan Truesdell, Michael Rossetti

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Together, we can change the climate story.

Project type: Organization
Forum Director: Lynn Luckow
Judge: Barbara Kopple
Judge: Louis Psihoyos
Producer: Andy Patrick

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When Gidon Lev was just 6 years old, he arrived at the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. When he was 85 years old, he took social media by storm.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Yaniv Rokah
Producer: Vickie Rose Sampson
Executive Producer: Elliot V Kotek, Andy Lewis, Danny Cohen

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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Khana Tillman
Producer: Adetola Omilana, Coleman Weimer, Harlow Brooks, Tola Omilana
Cinematographer: Miley Luo

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Coached by a group of dedicated police officers, the 2020 Minneapolis North High School football team battles to win a state championship in the midst of the covid pandemic, the death of George Floyd, and the resulting riots that turned the city against the police, setting a community on edge and their neighborhood on fire.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Jeffrey Williams
Producer/Cinematographer: Jon Cermin

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After vowing never to return, a young woman must come home for Christmas to save her father from trapping himself inside his few remaining memories.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: R Cadell Cook
Producer: Shandra L McDonald
Producer/Actress: Melan Perez

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A Black man seeks the assistance of a trademarking agency to prepare for his inevitable encounter with the police.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Antonio Harper
Writer/Director/Producer: Abby Burton

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A departed Ojibwe journeys to the afterlife, while a surviving relative finds resilience in the departed’s footsteps.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Alex Nystrom
Producer: Jeff Walker
Producer: Jeremy Charles
Producer: Lisa Normand
Producer: Rudy Jones
Cinematographer: Mike Maliwanag
Lead Actor: Benny Wayne Sully

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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Producer/Director/Editor:Harrison Gambelli
Cinematographer: Jesse Moritz
Production Designer: Sydney Gayle Amanuel
Post Sound/Score: Alex Wiederock

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"Franklin" is a dark, psychological drama that explores the fragile nature of the human mind, trauma, and the struggle for redemption. Inspired by themes from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the film delves into a young man’s internal battle against his haunting past and deteriorating mental health.

Writer/Director/Producer: Nicko Sabado
Director/Producer: Jacques Derosena
Producer: Lailanie Gadia

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Malcolm Jamal Turner, a struggling writer living in Harlem fed up with the neighborhood's changing demographics, concocts a ludicrous scheme to "de-gentrify" it.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Actor: Washington Kirk
Executive Producer: Miles Hodges
Actor: Ron Canada

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In this surrealistic tragicomedy, Joy, 35, visits an offbeat fertility clinic to freeze her eggs after a series of romantic misadventures…only to discover that she is pregnant.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Maya Albanese
Producer: Valerie Steinberg

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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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