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A devout nun believes that she can guide a struggling teenager through their crisis of faith.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Zegan Doyle
Producer: Selena Leoni
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Following a cancer diagnosis, Sister Úna—a wisecracking Catholic nun dedicated to social justice—chooses to live as she’s dying. In Sister Úna Lived a Good Death, we follow the self-proclaimed “leader of the misfits” in her last nine months as she plans her funeral, attempts to complete her bucket list, and confronts what it means to let go.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Par Parekh
Producer: Ali Hart
Editor: Ann Rose
Editor: Chris McNabb
Composer: Nathan Halpern
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An LA-based couple grappling with a series of personal and professional losses retreats to Big Bear Lake for a weekend hoping to rekindle their dwindling romantic flame.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer: Chloe Lenihan
Writer/Actor/Producer: Joseph Mancuso
Actor/Producer: Liz Masucci
Producer: Andy Fortenbacher
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Snake River is a Rock and Roll drama series about the unlikely rise of Luke Weaver, a middle-aged depressive whose talent for self-sabotage is second only to his ability to make great music.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Prodcuer: Bobby Field
Producer: Ashley Krick
Director of Photography: Zach Voytas
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Sheila and Imran haven’t seen each other since college, but when Imran moves back to Austin, an opportunity arises for the pair to get acquainted once more.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Neha Aziz
Producer: Alifya Ali, Mase Kerwick
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On the Eastside of Detroit in the summer of 2003, a Grandfather tries to hide his daughter’s incarceration from his young grandson in the midst of a city-wide blackout caused by an alien invasion.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Eric Riley
Producer: Jasmin Joseph
Producers: Gabriel Freeman, Clark Bishop
Director of Photography: Kate Levy
VFX Producer: Jeremy Brooks
Casting Director: Michele Mansoor
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Three women share their experiences navigating a hostile landscape, and the barriers they faced along the way, to get a later abortion.
Project type: Nonfiction Short
Producer: Asha Dahya
Co-producer: Sarah Moshman
Editor: Prakshi Malik
Animator: McGregor
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When a misanthropic addict in recovery finds out her dying mother gave up a previous child for adoption, she must prove her self-worth by fulfilling her mother’s final wish—track down the other child and bring him home before it's too late.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Desdemona Chiang
Writer/Producer/Actor: Julia Morizawa
Lead Producer: Ashley Song
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A pregnant Palestinian woman, whose husband died in the Israeli prison, wants to avenge his death. Under Hamas’ guidance, she plans a terror attack in Israel. The premature birth of her son makes her reconsider, but will Hamas let her off the hook?
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Adva Reichman
Producers: Nahd Bashier, Nicholas Benjamin
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A once promising playwright returns home to make amends with his dying father while picking up the pieces of a broken dream.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Project status: Development
Director: Kristen Hansen
Producer: Heather Brawley
Producer: Antonio A Ayala
Writer/Actor: Nick Maccarone
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Tipped to be bigger than Elvis as a young man, singer-songwriter Scott Fagan is taking one last shot at success, in his seventies.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Marah Strauch
Writer/Producer: Chris Campion
Producer: Eric Bruggemann
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Threatened by the forces of nature, a prehistoric outcast must use a newly awakened power to save her people: the ability to speak. But is the world ready to hear what she has to say?
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Nich Esposito
Producer: David Fieman
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Three childhood best friends reunite for a camping trip on the island where they went every summer as children, throwing into stark relief how much their lives have diverged.
Project type: Fiction Short
Co-Director: Brandi Nicole Payne
Co-Director: Jen West
Director of Photography: Alexxiss Jackson
Production Designer: Lauren Yisrael
Intimacy Coordinator: Camille Monae
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When social worker Johanna returns to her childhood home after the death of her estranged mother she must confront the abuse she experienced as a child, battling a force within the house that thinks Joanna is still a child in need of discipline..
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer: Carolynn Cecilia
Co-Producer: Desirée Abeyta
Editor: Jamie Wright
Composers: Michelle Birsky & Kevin Henthorn
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An homage to gritty 70s horror, Stain-Free is the story of Billie, a crippled police officer-turned-illicit crime scene cleaner who struggles to hold onto her humanity while covering up the murders perpetrated by her mysterious Employer.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Phil Tice
Producer: Rudy Scalese
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Locations like the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs show how Stan’s work is a staple of the Mid Century Movement from a California artist working since the 1950’s to today. The film is a study of contrasts, Stan, a reserved man, whose work, much like Jackson Pollack’s, is the culmination of physical battle with his preferred medium, clay.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Francesca Di Amico
Director of Photography/Producer: Claudia Unger
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Elderly prisoners cost taxpayers billions and are the least likely to reoffend, which is why senior citizen activist Bill Ryan - who already helped to end the death penalty in Illinois - wants to set them free.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Ben Kolak
Producer: Yana Kunichoff
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Veteran suicide is a huge problem in the U.S. today. Steel Soldier follows military veterans and others struggling with PTSD as they use armored combat - an emerging combat sport - to deal with their traumas.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Creator/Producer: Carl Fisk
Director: Jamie Flanagan
Editor/DIT: Derek Evans
Co-Producer: Jordan Letsinger
Cinematographer: Madison McKamey
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A runaway man returns to Alaska to visit his ailing mother amidst a family rift leads to an unexpected entanglement with the homeless community and the revelation of a long-buried family secret that threatens to upend his entire life.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Jiin F. Chang
Producer: Bright Chang
Director of Photography/VFX Supervisor: Ryan Tester
Director of Photography: Nathan Shuttleworth
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A young mother's American Dream turns into a living nightmare until she finds the inner strength to listen to a voice she hadn't heard before: her own.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Jared Martino
Assistant Director: Isabella Olaguera