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Grieving parents struggle with the loss of their daughter. An elegy on grief.
Project type: Animation
Writer/Director : Will McCormack
Writer/Director: Michael Govier
Producer: Maryann Garger
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Exploring how a single technological advancement transforms purpose and possibilities, IF/THEN follows egg freezing pioneer Dr Debra Gook as she approaches retirement and leaves behind a little known, but hugely impactful legacy in reproductive medicine - meanwhile two women using Dr Gook's technology grapple with expectations of motherhood and womanhood in contemporary society.
Director: Chloe Taylor
Producer: Diana Ward
Cinematographer: Simon J. Walsh
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Glen Penfield’s inspiring true story brings us explanations of the earth and universe. In an Indiana Jones like detective adventure, Glen who is both a geologist and a man of faith discovers the end of the dinosaurs and origin of human life on earth.
Producer: James Guyer
Director: Matt Shapira
Writer: Kevin Bernhardt
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A matriarch, a prostitute, and a teacher, yearning to heal their own internal wounds, embark on a perilous journey through the snowy west, to try to save a young girl from parenthood.
Writer/Director : Kylie Mungenast
Producer: Destiny Greer
Producer: Liz Davis
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Yearning for romance, a single Black woman takes her dating life into her own hands in a very unconventional way leading to consequences she never saw coming.
Writer/Director/ Executive Producer: Nikita T. Hamilton
Executive Producer: Jodine Gordon
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A small crime creates ripple effects in a neighborhood that brings devastating consequences, pushing race relations further in reactionary fallout.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Chloe Owens
Producers: Tamara Rhoads, Markus Linecker
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How do we set aside grief when our loved ones need us most? Up for an Oscar, aging actress Margaret Green dons her fur coat while her husband, Harold, dons his bravest face.
Director: Sarah Showich
Writer: Farah Hosseini
Producers: Charlie McCollum, Scott Brian, Maya Oster
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Suzanne, a seemingly perfect wife, has a secret: she’s obsessed with grade A meat, and the local butcher who knows how to handle it. When her dream of a chance encounter comes true, Suzanne is met with a surprise that upends her sense of self.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Emily Frances Kaplan
Producer: Tory Lenosky, Breanne Thomas
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Defying the odds in 1960s America, a young gas station attendant and a college graduate turn a chance meeting into a lifetime of possibilities.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Producer/Actor: Britnie Banks
Producer: Caity Ware
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A public health researcher’s data contradicts the government’s lies, forcing her to choose between exposing the truth around a deadly outbreak or walking away to protect her family.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Terra Wellington
Consulting Producer: Nina Martinek
Composers: Alexa L. Borden and Connor Cook
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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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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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During a tense encounter in a bar bathroom, Bash gets trapped in a time loop with his ex-best friend—and his only hope of escape is to confront what tore them apart.
Writer/Director: Aron kantor
Producer: Jordan Nöel Hawkes, Michael J. Wolf
Director of Photography: Jesse M. Feldman
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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