A self-involved teen and her overworked, single mom come to a head with their differences as their mobile home is repossessed … with them inside of it.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Producer/Writer: Sharon Arteaga
Producer: Chelsea Hernandez
Producer: Sommer Garcia Saqr
Production Designer: Ashley Landavazo

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In a desertified landscape, on the brink of environmental catastrophe, a genderless being drifts into a society in crisis, whose troubles are all too easily pinned on the arrival of this “unknown”.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Anastasia Eleftheriou
Producer: Nathaniel Draper
Writer: Moritz Pfeifer

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Life for Fede, a high school student living in nun-run housing in Italy is reliably routine until a new visitor arrives, inspiring her to go out of her way to make a connection.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Francesca de Fusco
Producer: Allegra Isenberg, Molly Gillis, Alex Bendo, Lexi Preiser, Yumeng Han
Cinematographer: Sofia Camargo Hoyos
Editor: Karishma Dev Dube, Christian Marsiglia

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Infinite Lives tells the story of 83-year-old gamer Kent Neveu as he reflects on his relationship with video games since 1976 and how it has affected his life ever since. Kent embarks on a new quest to get under the hood of his favorite games by traveling to Bethesda Game Studios with his son Brett. Infinite Lives explores the intersections of technology, aging, games, and reality as we see how games can bring people together.

Director: Curtis Matzke
Producers: Brett Neveu, Britta Erickson

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A gay spaghetti western about a group of vainglorious #instagays whose trip to Fire Island takes a dark turn when they accidentally murder their token friend of color.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Dhruv Sud
Producer: Clarissa Blau
Producer: A.C. Smallwood
Executive Producer: Max Emerson
Cinematographer: Vaughn Greve
Editor: Hazel McKibbin

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Intermediacy weaves the extraordinary life of Jewish, gay sexologist and activist Dr. Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935) with eight vibrant stories of LGBTQIA+ Berliners today. This dynamic interplay reveals the timeless nature of queer joy and struggle while contemplating the potential of tomorrow's liberation.

Director/Producer: Alex Yakacki

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Marcus Belgrave made his reputation as a trumpet player with Ray Charles, Motown’s Funk Brothers, and Charlie Mingus. Yet when he had the opportunity to leave Detroit for larger opportunities, he stayed behind to become a teacher and community leader, sacrificing the limelight to ensure that the future of his art form was safe in the hands of the next generation.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Timashion Jones
Producer: Bradley Torreano
Director of Photography: Jeremy Brockman

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Invisible Children of LA is a documentary exploring the daily lives of three homeless children. It shows how they cope and survive in a variety of settings from shelters, run-down motels and vehicles to the parks and alleys of Los Angeles. Woven throughout their stories will be interviews with frontline homeless advocates, politicians from the Los Angeles city council and members of the California Senate.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: Maryana Palmer
Narrator: Mimi Kennedy
Editor: Tina Imahara

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When a storm knocks out the power to her iron lung, a polio survivor and her engineer sister find themselves in a race against time to find a new way for her to breathe.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer: Vee Saieh
Director: Andrew Reid
Producer: Marie Alyse Rodriguez, Carmen Quiros

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Since July 25, 1898, Puerto Rico and its people have made countless contributions to the giant melting pot that is the United States. Yet, because Puerto Rico remains a territory, the contributions of the Puerto Rican people to the great project we call the United States remain largely unacknowledged by Americans at large. This series aims to redress that oversight.

Director/Producer: Ian Roumain
Producer: Sevier Crespo

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In rural Spain, a tumultuous romance blossoms between a visiting American and a local soccer rival.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Tusk
Production Company: Tusk Creative & Japonica Films
Producer: Cookie Walukas
Producer: Gerard Rodríguez
Producer: Laura Fernández-Hormigo
Producer: Frank Lucas

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In this sweeping 40-year romance set in Beirut, two star-crossed lovers, one an eternal optimist and the other an impulsive pragmatist, must decide if they want to build a family and chart a track to happiness, despite the tragic fates ravaging contemporary Lebanon.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Cyril Aris
Producer: Jen Blake, Georges Schoucair, Georg Neubert, April Shih

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Follow Ugandan elders "jajas" as they share how climate change has turned their world upside down. Floods, droughts, storms - the once reliable seasonal patterns have turned to chaos. It is unlike anything the jajas have seen in their long lives, and it is undermining their ability to live off the land as they have for decades.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director: Summer Spell
Cinematographer: Alvin K Masagazi
Producer/Operations Manager: Rennie McVicker
Producer/Fundraising Manager: Chloe Vann

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In the extraordinary city of El Alto, Bolivia, a young woman with lofty aspirations of becoming a fashion designer faces the challenges that come with being part of a dynasty of “Wrestling Cholitas” and her relationship with an unyielding mother.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Cristhian Barron
Executive Producer Denys Sanjinés Rodriguez
Producer Mariana Sandoval

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At the rural rodeos in Michoacán, México, a hypermasculine tradition is rife with hidden queer encounters. Guided by director Efraín, Jaripeo follows two rancheros as they navigate desire, machismo, and mass migration from one rodeo season to the next.
Director: Efraín Mojica
Director: Rebecca Zweig
Producer: Sarah Strunin
Producer: Victoria Gutiérrez Fernández

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When Jazzy learns that Syriah is moving away, she confronts the heartbreaks of growing up and the realities of the adult world. A spiritual successor to their previous film, The Unknown Country, Maltz's collaboration with producer Lainey Bearkiller Shangreaux results in an emotionally resonant coming-of-age drama that deeply immerses the audience in the lives of these two young girls.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Morrisa Maltz
Writer/Producer/Cast: Lainey Bearkiller Shangreaux
Producer/Cast: Miranda Bailey
Producer: Natalie Whalen, Elliott Whitton, John Way, Vanara Taing, Tommy Heitkamp

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When Sophia’s non-English-speaking father-in-law Ping vanishes in the U.S., she and her husband Daniel embark on a cross-country road trip with their newborn son. As they search for Ping, they must confront a labor trafficking scheme, the cracks in their marriage, and an uncertain future.

Writer/Director: Elaine Wong
Producer: Yuky Shen, Lareina Wong, Xiaojia Zhu
Director of Photography : Wenting Deng Fisher

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Jimmy in Saigon explores the mysterious life and death of James Austin McDowell, a Vietnam veteran who died at age 24 in 1972 as a civilian in Saigon. Painting an elegiac portrait, director Peter McDowell uncovers family secrets surrounding Jim’s drug use and sexuality, getting to know his brother who died when Peter was only 5 years old.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Peter McDowell
Producer: Lucia Palmarini
Producer: Peter Schulman
Composer/Producer: John McDowell
Executive Producer: Dan Savage, George Guerra, Corey Tong

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Three kids from the hood find an alien spaceship and take it on a joyride. Now they must decide to help the world that never cared about them, or escape into the unknown.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Raymond Carr

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This #metoo / #timesup feature about an aspiring rock star fights a mental breakdown along the road to stardom while pursued by a dysfunctional romantic. Drawn together and torn apart through humor, heartache and hope, the two grapple with the healing power of friendship and the damage wrought by demons of childhood.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Sherrie Richman
Writer: Christopher Kawika Brown

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