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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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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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An 11-year-old musician defies her father and forms an unexpected bond with a disabled, houseless violinist.
Director: Andrew Reid
Producer: Brian Grigsby
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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