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When Isabelle thrifts a funky jacket, the spirit of Rosa, a bubbly 2000's ghost, comes to life launching them on a journey to discover more about each other, themselves, and the unexpected connection to one another.
Director/Writer: Stephanie Osuna-Hernandez
Producer: Graciela Campos
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Màiri lives on a remote Scottish island, somewhere outside linear historical time. Her world is stitched together from myth and fantasy, and she walks among seals and sheep, roaming through a wordless dream state of sea, land and sky.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Brenda Davis
Actress/Co-Producer: Emily Allan
Cinematographer/Co-Producer: Alexandra Swati Guild
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On the anniversary of their mother’s death, three estranged sisters get stuck in their family fire station and their decades-long resentments come spilling out.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer:Meg Indurti
Director: Karan Sunil
Producer: Aishwarya Sonar
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Manifest is an old fashion story of mystery and suspense, in a Film Noir style -with brushes of surrealism.
Producer: Cecilia Garza-Trevino
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Is it a crime to save 8000 children? Who is Margaret Cole? Farm Girl, Saint or Sinner?
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Yaniv Rokah
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Mary Woronov chronicles her colorful career spanning from her work with Andy Warhol to Roger Corman that sealed her reputation as a “Cult Queen”.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer/Editor: Francesca Di Amico
Producer/Cinematographer: Claudia Unger
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A young blind man goes on the hunt for a man on a dating app - but it appears something might be hunting him.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Jonathan Hammond
Producer: Regina Pigsley
Director of Photography: John Barrett
Actor: Patrick Mayuyu
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During jargon-laden Zoom meetings, a programmer daydreams about an eccentric stranger who lives next door, until a lightbulb moment prompts her to leverage her skills for a shot at love and take her voyeurism outside.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Marissa Goldman
Producer: Jolie Darrow
Actors: David Brown, Jon Daly
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When drag queens start disappearing, a shy young barista must summon his inner super-shero to rescue them from an evil cosmetics exec bent on harvesting their magical anti-aging tears.
Project type: Animation
Creator, Director, Executive Producer: Anthony Hand
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A thirty-year-old Spanish writer in Los Angeles embarks on a journey of self-discovery in the midst of his first love story with a man and his last with a woman, all while facing the added isolating reality of being a foreigner.
Producer/Writer/Director: Ruben Navarro
Producer: Jose Carmona
Director of Cinematography: Mark Alonso
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After failing to make the LGBTQ soccer team’s roster, Jesus's desire to win his father's approval is eclipsed by a new obsession to beat the mean gays at their own game.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Ahuatl Amaro
Producer: Fanfan Zhou
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Midtown will distill America’s experience of contemporary electoral politics through an observational study of Midtown Manhattan on Election Night 2020.
Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: Eric Fernandez
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A recalled action figure enlists the help of an alpha male life coach in order to become the perfect man.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Nic Leb
Producer: Cole Issacson
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Nine cousins who all happen to be half-white and half-Mexican with varying degrees of Spanish fluency and cultural knowledge connect with their Mexican heritage and learn to embrace their Latinidad on a family trip to their grandma’s birthplace in Mexico City.
Director/Producer: Alyssa Callahan
Director: Claire Gostin
Cinematographer: Christopher Yang
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Mo Show paints an unexpected picture of Chattanooga, Tennessee, through the eyes of a young black filmmaker who guides us through the personal stories of the folks in his world. From his Confederate-flag-flying neighbor to the Iraqi refugee across town, Mo wants to connect every part of his still-segregated southern city.
Project type: Nonfiction Short
Co-director/DP/Editor: Annie Huntington
Co-director/Producer: Clay Thomas
Producer/Writer: Mo McDowell
Advisor: Laura Gamse
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An immersive drama short film exposing the harrowing day in the life of a social media content moderator, based on true, anonymous stories.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Eli Staub
Producer: Evie Masters
Producer: Sofia Uribe
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A young girl coerced into sex-trafficking must escape the emotional cage her “Romeo Pimp” has trapped her in before she loses what little hope remains to live and dream.
Project type: Fiction Short
Co-writer/Director: Spencer Currie
Co-writer/Producer: Dan Sima
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Monica is the intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to the Midwest for the first time in 20 years to take care of her dying mother. Exploring universal themes of abandonment, aging, rejection, hope and forgiveness, we are led into Monica's world through an introspective and riveting journey of our shared human condition.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Andrea Pallaoro
Producer: Gina Resnick
Producer: Eleonora Granata
Producer: Christina Dow
Executive Producer: Christina Sibul
Executive Producer: Karen Tenkhoff
DP: Kate Arizmendi
Costume Designer: Patrik Milani
Production Designer: Andrew Clark
HMU Department Head: Chelo Acosta-Conley
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After protesters upend five monuments in Portland in 2020, the community reckons with its symbols of westward expansion. The unfolding fate of the sculptures pits historic preservationists and the descendants of Oregon Trail settlers against artists, Indigenous activists, and others who view the monuments as relics of colonialism.
Director: Erika Bolstad
Producer: Jackie Weissman, Jen Tate
Director of Photography: Zach Putnam
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At the repast following his father’s funeral, Noah Butler grapples with the complex nature of his grief, and familial bonds, after the surprise arrival of his estranged uncle.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Ryan T. Lipscomb
Producer: Jamari Perry, Corlandos Scott