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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Maxene Andrews, of the famed musical trio “The Andrews Sisters”, lived parallel lives. In the eyes of the American public, she was a beloved icon of 1940s patriotism. In private, she had many secrets that would have shocked America and destroyed the sisters’ careers and legacy.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Directors/Producers: Amanda Spain & Sandra Alvarez

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A soccer mom fed up with the abuse women endure, starts a vigilante hit squad to punish those who harm them. Justice gets messy, but she’s determined to tip the scales—one meltdown at a time.

Director/Producer/Writer: Casey DeStefano
Director of Photography: Mark Doering-Powell, ASC

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A Bay Area transplant fights to survive in a Los Angeles high school where announcements often signal tragic farewells, caught between gang violence and forbidden attraction.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: D’Angelo “D’Lo” Louis
Producer: Jamari Perry, David Hunter, Jr
Executive Producer: Yhá Mourhia Wright, Michelle A. Daniel

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Desperate for some company, a delirious new mother tumbles into a magnetic friendship with her estranged aunt – an eccentric recluse with even more demands than her baby.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Nora Fiffer
Lead Cast/Executive Producer: Lauren Lapkus
Featured Cast/Executive Producer: Carrie Coon

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Set in 1993, a New York City drag queen suffers from AIDS as she mourns the loss of her soulmate, both by reliving past traumas and conquering current ones.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Cameron Kostopoulos
Writer: Gerardo Garcia
Producer: Valerie Tan
Producer: Alex Jiang

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At an inflexible Japanese immersion school, multi-ethnic students battle biases and risk everything not to get expelled in order to beat their Kpop dance team rivals, while untangling who they are inside.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Producer: Marco Palou
Producers: Tobias Lerman Matonte

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An aimless loner claims to have the psychic ability to find serial killers, but suspicions rise when she happens to brutally murder them every time.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Morgen A. Whiteman
Producer: Aliya Brooks
Director of Photography: Liz Charky
Editor: Jazmin Jamias
Composer: Evo Jackson

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