A scrappy brown high schooler must fight her way to be Elle Woods when the lead of her school's production of Legally Blonde: The Musical gets seriously injured ten minutes before showtime.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Producer: Maya Vyas
Director: Kirsten Hoang
Producer: Alyssa Callahan
Associate Producer: Sari Arambulo
Associate Producer: Nicole McCullough
Associate Producer: Ruhi Mansey

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In a time of racial upheaval and a multitude of woes affecting marginalized communities, a young, African American filmmaker journeys to the heart of the Black experience to find the answer to a daunting question: Is the Black church dead?

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Rafiq J Nabali
Producer: Joe Howell
Producer: Mahalia Latortue
Producer: Nancy Howard

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Lauren thinks she’s awoken a monster. Faced with skepticism from the only person she trusts, she asks herself: can she believe what she sees or has she lost her mind?

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Carrington Walsh
Co-Producer/AD: Claire Liu

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When sisters Alex and Claire learn of their abuser’s death, they journey to a New Zealand settlement to witness his burial.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Aileen O'Sullivan
Writer/Producer: Mary Sewell

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In the aftermath of their venerated father’s death, two brothers travel to Europe to learn about his childhood experiences during the Holocaust that shaped a man they never fully knew.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Michael Gil
Producer/Editor: Nicholas Manting Brewer
Producer: Emily Grandcolas
Director of Photography: Feixue Tang

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Leveling Lincoln brings back to the forefront the first case in the Northern USA, where a school was torn down in the quest for equal rights in education. Mrs. Taylor vs. The Board of Education of New Rochelle, NY – 1961, was a landmark case brought by Lincoln School parents. Many still remember and speak on camera of this pivotal case, their childhood after the case, and how it relates to today’s educational struggles.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Arden Teresa Lewis
Producer/Assistant Director: Tinks Lovelace, Bag O' Bones Collective

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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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