After the death of their friend Evan, a group of 30-somethings try to suppress their grief during the celebration of life he wanted, a.k.a. The Best Funeral Party Ever. Life of the Party is a comedy about living with loss, it explores how we must move through our fear of mortality to ultimately go all-in on life.

Director: April Shih

Writers: Brandy Finmark, Nora Mcinery

Producers: Brandy Finmark, Nora Mcinery, Diversity Hire LTD, Make Good Content

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After the fall of Roe v. Wade, the lives of two women in Louisiana intersect: a pregnant 16-year-old and a second-wave women’s rights activist (80s) at the end of her life. This is a story about the fallout. This is a story about collective grief. This is a story about how each generation continues to fight. Ultimately, this is a story about two women.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Max Olson
Producer: Corrine Dye
Co-Producer: Julia Corcoran

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A mother makes a shocking discovery when she’s left to pack up her daughter’s house after a tragic car accident.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Laguaria Davis
Producers: Valeria Lopez, Steak House

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A sharp-tongued widow and ex-CIA spy strikes up an unexpected friendship with her new neighbor igniting tensions that push his relationship with his partner to the breaking point.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Janice Engel
Producer: James Egan
Writer: Tim Atkin

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A grandmother risks her own life to protect her granddaughter during a heat wave.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Ian Lyndon
Producer: Jonathan Biebl
Director of Photography: Lowell A. Meyer

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The desperate imagination of a child of war draws into his reality a new form of his arms, equipped with guns. But the figure steps into reality to transcends out of this darkness. By searching for something among the ruins of the war, he wants to shape a new form of his being.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer/Animator: Ahou Alagha
Character & Set Designer/Modeler: Ramin Parvin
Sound Designer: Hossein Mahdavi
Composer: Foad Ghahremani

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Little City Gardens is a nonfiction feature that presents the magnetism and beauty of a farm that existed in San Francisco. It’s a story about connections to land, place, and each other told through the poetic visuals of a working urban farm. It’s a moving portrait about the powerful and compassionate relationship between people and land found in the most unlikely of places.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
DirectorProducer: Ben Grossman
Producer/Consultant: Caitlyn Galloway

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A homeless drummer boy, who romanticizes over a neighborhood girl, fights the path of a changing, gentrifying city in his attempt to show his affection.

Project type: Fiction Short
Project status: Development
Director/Writer/Producer: Ellis J. Sutton
Producer/Assistant Director: Tom Muhl
Director of Photography: Yorgos Tzoytzoyakos
Production Designer: Lizeth Salgado
Composer: Stevie Thompson

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Living Art follows the life of Mara Clawson, a brilliant visual artist battling a life-threatening genetic disease. As she prepares for the largest gallery show of her young career, Mara inspires everyone around her to help create a world full of love and kindness.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer: David Rochkind

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A teenage ballerina who dreams of moving to New York enters into a dangerous romance with an older man who derails her plans.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Project status: Development
Writer/Director: Carly Hopkins
Producer: Robert Scott Wildes
Producer: Giulia di Stravola

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Loco is a surreal comedy about mental health and its stigma in the Latine community. At his first therapy session, Rafael Reyes relives the panic attacks, anxious thoughts, and overbearing family that boiled over on the night of his 25th birthday.

Writer/ Director: Eddie Mujica
Producer: Lauren Bancroft
Cinematographer: Kelsey Talton
Production Designer: Day Hernandez
SFX Artist: Ashley Fransisco

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A despairing woman seeks reprieve from her torment by entering an enigmatic competition created by a global AI corporation.

Director/Writer: Brenton Gieser
Producers: Alexa Rocero, Sam Kelly Jr

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It’s been six years since 18 year-old Lynn and her father Lionel were torn apart in a courthouse hallway. In the years since, Lynn has navigated her difficult relationship with her mother Mae by being the obedient, super-achieving daughter Mae needs, and delayed an inevitable reckoning with trauma and loss by suppressing her memories of the deep bond she and Lionel once shared.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Paula Puryear
Producer: Preston Holmes
Co-Producer: Tyrone Dixon
Cinematographer: Dennis Flippin
Unit Production Manager/Location Manager: Carlyn Couch

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A twelve-year-old girl runs away from home in rural Nevada and crosses paths with a charming man who lures her into prostitution.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Erin Cantelo
Producer: Toby Louie

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Love’s Labours Lost is Shakespeare’s only comedy where the women reject their suitors – a group of downright dangerous men in power. Our pointed satire, filled with dark humor and wit, will center the marginalized voices of Shakespeare’s female characters and highlight how little patriarchal oppression has changed in over 500 years.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Nick Musleh
Producers: Kristen Uno, Lydia Hunter

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Lucia, an ambitious Colombian, bride moves into her new husband's home only to discover that she -- and only she -- can see his invisible wife.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Karine Benzaria
Producer: Julia Kennelly
Producer: Carlos Valdivia

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The LUMPIA-armed avenger reappears in Fogtown and teams up with high school student Rachel to prevent a crime syndicate from selling drugs masked as food in this action comedy.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Co-Writer/Director/Executive Producer: Patricio Ginelsa
Editor/Executive Producer: A.J. Calomay

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In this stunningly candid exploration of infidelity, adulterers and victims of unfaithfulness in 40 countries break their silence to compare norms, laws, and taboos while also revealing their own personal escapades.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Michael LaPointe
Producer: Dara Nicole Díaz Ríos

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After being rejected from seemingly everything, a city teenager finds themself in The Woods with an inspiring stranger.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Brielle Brilliant (aka Pavli)
Producer: Lauren Sharifi, Rob Allen
Co-Producer: Carol Hu

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An Indian divorcée, struggling to raise her daughter, is forced to confront her violent and painful past at a dinner gathering with old friends

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Jacintha Charles
Producer: Lisa Yadao
Producer/1st AD: Harly Crandall
Director of Photography: Jussi Hayha
Production Designer/Art Director: Emma Scully

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