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When a Filipina college student reunites with an old friend, she is confronted with a hazy, intimate memory, realizing they may have nothing in common anymore.
Project type: Fiction Short
Project status: Development
Writer/Exec Producer/Leading Role: Sari Arambulo
Director: Cole Bacani
Cinematographer: Joseph Yao
Producers: Brendan Bennett, Porschia Adler
Associate Producers: Ellis J. Sutton, Eddie Leavy
Editor: Kirsten Hoang
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While at the studio late one night, struggling musician Riya is forced to deal with the harsh realities of the entertainment industry and the price of doing business. She’ll have to decide if her dreams of making it big are worth the risk of losing herself and possibly her life.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: James Ken Blackmon
Producer/1st AD: Misha Zvagilskiy
Director of Photography: Artur Gubin
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A loving portrait from a transgender son to his father as their lives intersect with mental health, identity, and masculinity over a ten-year journey.
Director: Cody Stickels
Producer: Chelsea Moore
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A disastrous one-night-stand between drunken millennials gets unexpectedly extended when a neighborhood lockdown prevents Lucas from leaving Asha’s apartment. LUCAS, a laid back, agnostic tutor, and ASHA, a tough-as-nails, God-fearing attorney, must survive the police lockdown for six hours without killing each other or… falling in love.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Project status: Production
Director/Producer: Elton Loud
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A feature documentary exploring the lives of two men, as they attempt to overcome their childhood trauma, renounce violence and lead better lives.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Nick Taussig
Director/Editor: Riccardo Servini
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In the afterglow of their happy occasion, a newlywed couple encounters a painful truth on their wedding night that puts their future together in peril.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Tiffany Tenille
Producer: Betsey Grupp, Dr. Trevor GrandPre
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Passionate young painter, Kae Beaumont, struggles to live up to her father’s strict artistic expectations - even after his death. When she’s tasked with honoring him through a gallery exhibit, Kae must decide if she'll embrace her natural inclination to paint abstractly, or succumb to the pressures her father put on her to paint in the style he was known for: realism.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Alaysia Renay Duncan
Producer: Jacquelyn Chin, Ray Deutsch
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Across The Globe is coming to New York City! After two years of celebrating international independent films remotely, XTG is having its first in-person event in April 2024.
Project type: Festival
Creator/Festival Director: John Fessler
Sponsorship Director: Andrew Levy
Head of Marketing & Social Media: Jared Cohen
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No single collection of the cartoons made by Max Fleischer and Fleischer Studios exists anywhere in the world. My mission is to collect all the cartoons, restore them, and make them available to everyone.
Project type: Animation
Producer: Jane Fleischer Reid
Supervising Director: Max Reid
Lead Restorer: Thad Komorowski
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A late-twenties artist and her boyfriend turn the family house into chaos while the parents are away. As their return date looms, they scramble to restore order, grappling with the shame of their immaturity.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Ann Sun
Producers: Han Lee and Yimeng “Yuki” Yuan
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Meet Africa's game-changers: The innovators, educators and pioneers, reimagining and reshaping the continent's future.
Project type: Nonfiction Episodic
Series Director/Creator: Bruce Donnelly
Producer: Fermin Rojas
After Antarctica is a feature-length documentary that follows polar explorer Will Steger's life journey as an eyewitness to the greatest changes in the polar regions of our planet. Now, thirty years after his historic coast-to-coast expedition across the coldest continent on Earth, Steger is not only known for being the first in history to complete this historic feat - he is also the last.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Tasha Van Zandt
Producer: Sebastian Zeck
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Terminally-ill Annie and the two loves of her life - her partner Liam and their dog Whiskey - retreat to the mountains for what seems like a relaxing weekend away. In reality, it's their last weekend together.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Lizzie Germann
Writer/Producer: Kaitlyn Clare
Director of Photography: Laura Jansen
First Assistant Director: Liz Holland
Co-Executive Producer: Philip Anderson
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An uninvited guest and a famous painter reunite on the eve of an art opening. After years of estrangement can two former friends rekindle their friendship without collateral damage?
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Jennifer Berry
Producer: Mandi Reno
Director of Photography: Mike Berlucchi
Consulting Producer: Jane Charles
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AHMAD ZAHIR explores the extraordinary life of Afghanistan’s most revered musician, the “Elvis of Afghanistan,” who rockets to stardom in the 60s and 70s – a time when women in Kabul wear mini-skirts, foreigners flock to Afghanistan on the “hippie trail,” and progressive change swept the country.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Shabnam Humphrey
Executive Producer: Sam French, Tom Freston
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Tough, but diva fabulous, Leo, aspiring drag superstar, is stuck working in a fish cannery in Alaska. He and his twin sister are trapped in the monotony of fist fights and fish guts. Out of necessity, Leo learned to fight back, which catches the attention of the local boxing coach. When a new boy moves to town and wants to be his sparring partner, Leo has to face the real reason he's stuck in Alaska.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Shaz Bennett
Producers: Diane Becker, Jean-Pierre Caner, Melanie Miller
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To prevent his oldest brother from drinking himself to death, Ronan Connolly must seek help from their estranged priest brother, leading to an unexpected family reunion with their long-lost sister, and a botched intervention.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer: Matt Aaron Krinsky
Screenwriter: Julianne Homokay
Director of Photography: Sam Krueger
Editor: Connor Linnerooth
Casting Director: Sarah Steiker
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A Palestinian couple finds hope and courage in the midst of relentless struggle as they face an extraordinary life decision that will change their family’s destiny.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Cherien Dabis
Producer: Thanassis Karathanos
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All We Carry follows one family’s extraordinary journey as they flee persecution in Honduras and endure months in US detention. Upon release, they are sponsored by a synagogue in Seattle and move into a borrowed home, all while they await their asylum verdict. Over three years, the family navigates countless life-altering and every-day moments where memory, joy, and grief collide.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Cady Voge
Producer: Laura Pilloni, Laura Tatham
Executive Producer: America Ferrera, Ryan Piers Williams, Michael Skolnik
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Teen foster sisters Lulu and Sam run away to LA, chasing a TikTok modeling opportunity – and are thrust into a collision between homelessness and the world of influencers, uncovering the power of human connection and the failures of modern systems.
Director: Nitzan Levinson
Producer: Atit Shah
Cinematographer: Eythan Maidhof