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In a world obsessed with perfection, an eclectic woman realizes that life is better imperfect.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Coxy Chiara Rodoni
Producers: Tre’Shonda Sheffey, Adam Hahn, Dan Punshon Smith
Executive Producers: Coxy Chiara Rodoni, Sanjay Seuranine
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Meet Sharon and Sharon; two women on a mission to rescue hundreds of mistreated guinea pigs. From the UK, LA to Peru follow their humorous and heart-warming adventure as they also set out to discover the forgotten history of these curious creatures in the first major documentary about guinea pigs.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Sharon Walia
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Set in a remote forest where a fringe community keeps "the old ways" alive, a struggling mother is forced to bring her daughter to work in their ancient and taboo family business.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Lindsay Zibach
Producer: Sarah Ullman
Director of Photography: Sara Kinney
Production Designer: Madelyn Wilkime
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Following the eccentric tenants of a kitschy apartment complex in Niagara Falls.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer: Nick Butler
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A gay Holocaust researcher struggles to convince his boyfriend’s grandfather, a Dachau liberator, to reveal his untold story of gay pink triangle survivors. By lifting their voices and the memories of a secretive Holocaust liberator, this film depicts the power of empathy and healing to crush hate.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Patrick Fritz
Producer: O'Shea" Myles
Producer: Kyle Wilson
Director of Photography: Jeff Caroli
Production Designer: Myra Barrera
Editor: Raymundo Archila
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A secluded woman adheres to a strict schedule with the fear that if she breaks her routine she will die, but when a new female butler arrives, she risks it all for the promise of love.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer: Andrea Maxwell
Writer/Producer: tammy lynne stoner
Producers: Lindsay Lanzillotta, Theresa Burkhart Gallagher, Diana C. Zollicoffer
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This is a film about a witch pretending to be a babysitter.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Donaldo Prescod
Producer: Rebecca Hamm
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The Maltese Cross follows the inimitable life of a famed motion picture engineer and shows audiences what happens after an immigrant has achieved their so-called American Dream. All While passing the torch to a hopeful new generation.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Co-Director/Producer: Maya Neumeier
Co-Director: Edward Herrera
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Through multiple testimonials, The Naked Gardener showcases sexual misconduct and non-profit mismanagement perpetrated at the Pepperfield Project. This film provides a platform for silenced voices and catalyzes individual and organizational accountability towards a cauterized end to patterns of injustice.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Editor: Ian Carstens
Composer: Jaci Wilkinson
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In an all-Black world where power is the ultimate currency, everyone in Erika is after their share—and then some—but hidden motives, a media conspiracy, and a government takeover threaten to change the face and culture of their nation forever.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Executive Producer: LaQuin Alexander
Executive Producer/Showrunner: Jovel Roystan
Producer: Arneece Maynard
Producer: Hutt Nassar
Cinematographer: Kevin Spence
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In Search of Resolution
The remains of the Hiroshima Dome stands as a symbol of the devastating humanitarian impact of the nuclear bomb. The Nuclear World Project’s goal with the production of the third documentary entitled In Search of Resolution is a continuing exploration into the future, not to predict what will happen, rather to profile individuals and organizations finding new ways to move the world away from the dangers of the most destructive weapon ever invented.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Robert E. Frye
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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Actress: Megan Penn
Director/Writer: Paige Stark
Producer: Kira Vykhodtseva
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When one incident triggers a storm, we realize we are more connected than we think.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Mary-Lyn Chambers
Producer: Roxy Shih
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A teenage migrant escapes a detention center and confronts his past traumas, hopes and fantasies of living in the promised land - America- but it isn’t the America he was expecting.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer/Editor: Justin Ferrato
Producer: Daniel Maldonado
Producer: Bill Nugent
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A magical take on a true story, The Queen's Flowers is an animated short adventure for kids that follows Emma, a native Hawaiian girl in 1915 Honolulu, as she makes a special gift for the last monarch of Hawai`i, Queen Lili`uokalani.
Project type: Animation
Director: Ciara Lacy
Producer: Concepcion Saucedo
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The Residents of 8264 Oakland Ave is the story of a queer, chosen family, in Milwaukee, whose home is bought out to be a strip mall.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Rhea Bozzacchi
Actor/Producer: Molly Ragen
Cinematographer: Mike Maliwanag
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Alma feels she's finally found an escape from her uncomfortable family life when she joins an underground world of circus performers, but as she becomes the muse of its enigmatic ringmaster, the creative fantasy devolves into a prison that feels uncannily familiar...
Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Maya Albanese
Producer: Rebecca Maar
Producer: Lisa Crnic
Director of Photography: Caleb Heymann
Costume: Kit 'Pistol' Scarbo
Production Designer: Rene Vas
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In a dystopian world, what are the rules for survival?
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Amanda Renee Knox
Lead Actor: Taylor Owen
Director of Photography: Michael Phillips
Sound Designer: Ben Wilkins
Composer: Esin Aydingoz
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The Running Kind is a fast paced, kaleidoscopic, dark comedy that tells the story of Cary, an unhappy screw up, who decides to fake his own death rather than watch his only friend die of cancer.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Kephren Palmer, Norris Palmer
Producer: Maria Paula Quesada, Gabby Fiszman
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After being arrested in an FBI sting and labeled a domestic terrorist amidst the Ferguson protests, a once-promising student, father, artist, and activist leader comes home to his life and family after 6 years of federal incarceration. With over a decade of intimate footage, this film bears witness as Olajuwon questions the tactics and label of “Black Identity Extremist” used to put him away and learns to reconcile his tumultuous past with his hopeful future.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Bobby Herrera
Producer: Aaron Bowden
Producer: Damon Davis