Co-stars Ela’ (Clarke Peters) and Legbani (Yolonda Ross) burn up the stage in a new racially fueled Broadway play. But when trust is violated, fact and fiction become blurred as the couple wrestles with what it means to love and succeed as black artists in show business.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer: Yolonda Ross
Executive Producer:Jeffrey Waxman

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Sadie, a 17-year-old ferry deckhand has her day turned upside down when she tries to delete a love-confessing text message before outing herself to the crew.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Lindsey Ryan
Producer: Samantha Scolarici
Co-Producer: Danny Ryan
Executive Producer: Katherine Doyle
Associate Producer: Eden Strassburg
Cinematographer: Ming Hu
Colorist: Elodie Ichter
Cast - Sadie: Pauline Chalamet

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Season of the Witches is a psycho-social crime thriller following three American PhD students volunteering in post-hurricane Puerto Rico who accidentally kill a local playboy in a revenge scheme gone wrong. When the “doing good on the Island” women try to cover up the murder, they are pursued by a local detective with demons of her own, raising the stakes on what it means to be loyal and good.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Deborah Riley Draper
Writer/Producer: Sherri Daye Scott
Executive Producer: Mikki Taylor
Executive Producer: Cheryl Polote-Williamson

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A young woman suffering a mysterious trauma retreats from the city to the high mountains. Time, nature, and the unexpected influences of one who has seen a lot more of life and another who is yet to see much of it - help her heal.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Subhadra Mahajan
Producer: Shyam Bora
Executive Producer: Pan Nalin
Executive Producer/Director of Photography: Swapnil S. Sonawane

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A movie theater projectionist with dwarfism has a fateful, frightening reunion with the famously voyeuristic photographer, Diane Arbus.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Lindsay Zibach
Producer: Natalie Heltzel
Executive Producer: Ian Gibson

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Seekers: a groundbreaking five-episode documentary series for television dedicated to Transcendental Meditation (TM) and all its facets. TM has been taught for sixty years reaching over 100 countries. Millions of TM practitioners attest to the improvements they experience from this technique. This first comprehensive series of its kind provides audiences with an in-depth exploration of TM, delving into its origins, principles, impact, challenges, and the diverse experiences of practitioners and observers alike.

Director: Max Lewkowicz
Producer: Keith Erling Thompson

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After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Amy a 15-year old, rebellious teenage girl, awakens in the hospital to find herself sharing a bedside with Tito, a 3- year-old boy in a deep coma from a drowning incident. Through vivid dreams & surreal encounters, Tito becomes the catalyst that motivates Amy to rebuild her life while adapting to a life with an epilepsy diagnosis.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Andreina P. Aristeiguieta
Co-Writer: Alberto Arvelo
Producer: Emmi Grullon

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When Amare’s father catches him in the act with another boy, Amare is kicked out of the house and finds himself trying to survive in the cold unforgiving streets of New York, while still struggling to make his dreams of dancing with the renowned Alvin Ailey dance troupe a reality.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Producer/Actor: Reggie Lochard
Director: Kelley Kali
Producer: Kellon Akeem, Reggie Lochard, Capella Fahoome

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To tame her mischief, a single mother enrolls her nine-year-old daughter in private painting lessons in Kathmandu until her child suddenly catches a mysterious illness. When doctors are unable to pin down a diagnosis, her strong-willed mother turns to a local shaman who reveals shared trauma that leads mother and daughter down a path of redemption.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Nani Sahra Walker

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An episodic comedy about a group of lovable idiots trying to make it in Hollywood while surviving on the streets of L.A.

Project type: Fiction Episodic
Director/Co-creator: Drew Rosas
Actor/Co-creator: Nick Sommer
Lead Actor: Jessie Kahnweiler
Actor: Mark Borchardt

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Christine Means and her family have spent years questioning the circumstances surrounding her sister's death. In 2019, a renewed sense of hope for justice places Christine at the center of the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives movement in New Mexico. Against all odds, this is a story of love, spirit, and the unwavering power of Indigenous women and allies who refuse to let their loved ones be forgotten.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Executive Producer: Amanda Erickson
Executive Producer: Sarah Burns
Executive Producer: Alex Sherratt

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She Keeps Me Young is a dark comedy that explores what happens when a high school girl unwittingly challenges the friendship of two grown women.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Co-Writer: Doron Max Hagay
Producers: Graham Mason, Nicole Crespo, Neil Champagne
Cinematographer: Joshua Hill
Production Designer: Gordon Landenberger

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She Said / She Said is a character driven dramedy based in the Los Angeles live storytelling community. A storyteller suffering from writer's block finds her unique voice and comes to terms with her abusive childhood when she hears a younger woman tell a story eerily similar to her own.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Sara Alize Cross
Producers: Matt Chupack, Don Ohmer, Matt Michienzie

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Xin Ying, a Chinese immigrant and trailblazing principal dancer of the Martha Graham Dance Company, prepares to retire from her decade-long role at the pinnacle of her career while actively positioning herself in hopes of becoming the company’s next—and first Asian American—artistic director. Facing this turning point, she must navigate not only an uncertain future, but also the demands of motherhood and invisible social and cultural barriers faced by Asian immigrant women in the US.

Director: Jingqiu Guan
Producer: Selena Leoni

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The SHIFT Creative Fund is a grant program designed to support up-and-coming independent filmmakers by bringing their creative visions to life. SHIFT developed the Creative Fund to allow filmmakers to take their narrative short film projects from script to screen.

Program Manager: Grace Amodeo
Director of Marketing: Taylor Corrado
CEO: Kai Pradel

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When the California WaterFix, an estimated $18 billion proposal to divert fresh water to Southern California, was introduced it seemed inevitable despite the high price tag and public opposition. Shouting Into the Wind introduces the union reps and political figures behind the proposal and the vocal residents who pushed back.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: Elizabeth Bayne
Journalist: Jessica Grainger

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At the height of the AIDS crisis, Dr. Anthony Fauci is forced to reckon with his power and responsibility while hundreds of protesters storm the campus of the National Institute of Health.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Trace Pope
Producer: Kate Hanson, Tola Omilana

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An alienated, young Korean-American woman secures a coveted tech internship, but her insecurities and loneliness soon cause her to forge a disquieting obsession with a rival.

Writer/Director: Yeon Jin Lee
Producer/Assistant Director: Celene Di Stasio
Lead Actress: Tia Cuevas

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When an opportunistic Indian graduate student finds a bag full of drugs, he decides to sell them on the deep web to make a quick buck. Little does he know that a brilliant Indian American DEA agent is working around the clock to hunt him down.

Project type: Fiction Episodic
Director: Pradeep Katasani
Producer: Amar P

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Three women whose lives are shattered by ISIS travel intertwined journeys on two continents to find their shared destiny in fighting back.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Anna M. Bofarull
Producer: Azadeh Khatibi
Producer: Marian Matachana
Cinematographer: Lara Vilanova
Editor: Diana Toucedo

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