Nevertheless Film Festival elevates the work of women in film, as every film in the program is required to have at least 50% of designated leadership roles filled by women. The roles include director, producer, editor, cinematographer, screenwriter, production designer, sound mixer, and music supervisor/composer.

Project type: Festival
Founder/Festival Director: Meredith Finch

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Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Elizabeth Ai
Producer: Rachel Sine
Executive Producers: Diane Quon, Geeta Gandbhir, Robina Riccitiello, C.Y. Lee

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At a Florida highway rest stop, a sheltered pre-teen is accidentally abandoned while accompanying her truck driver father on a delivery.

Writer/Director: Kim Caicedo
Producer: Heliya Alam
Producer: Warner Davis
Producer: Michelle levinger

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A Mexican Neil Diamond impersonator living in Los Angeles is forced to return to his hometown after years away to say goodbye to his dying mother. This journey will reunite him with his past to reveal his true identity.

Producer: Jesus Pimentel
Producer: Lemore Syvan
Executive Producer: Paul Zaentz

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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer/Lead: Leena Kurishingal
Producer: Timothy Farrell
Executive Producer/Editor: John H. Rogers III
Executive Producer: Marissa Jo Cerar
Cinematographer: Daniel Izui

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On the eve of moving in with his girlfriend, a closeted Charlie escapes to an anonymous cam site, but when a faceless stranger threatens to erase his identity, reality starts to glitch.

Writer: Michael Pisaturo
Director/Cinematographer: Matthew Lynn

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Disabled players and their allies are using advocacy and technology to fight stigmas and enact change to make electronic gaming accessible and level the playing field.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Derek Dabkoski
Producer: Ian McClellan
Producer: Paige Draney
Co-Producer/Director of Photography: Nicholas Finn Myggen

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A humorous and heartbreaking coming-of-age drama that peels back the veneer of the suburban middle class and exposes the quiet violence and abuse that lie just beneath the surface of the American ideal.

Writer/Director: Gibson Frazier
Producer: Susie Talbot

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In a Puritan town consumed by paranoia, a young mother, haunted by her friend's execution, must navigate growing suspicion to protect her daughter from a similar fate.

Director: Kim Caicedo
Writer/Producer: Teresa Catherine
Producer: Susanne McDonald, Lauren Elizabeth Harris,

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Youth in Indonesia are poised to become the majority of their country’s population by 2020. Despite unprecedented death tolls in the wake of environmental disasters, they remain resilient. No Word for No explores the question: how are the young people of Indonesia preparing to face the challenges ahead?

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: Andrew Morrison
Director of Photography: Auden Bui
Editor: Colton Loftin
Master Dalang: Ki Midiyanto

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Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director:Eimi Imanishi
Producer: Shrihari Sathe, Eric Dupont, Virginie Lacombe, Belén Sánchez Silvero, Damon Owlia

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Noor, a Black woman develops a deep connection to Rami, an Arab man who works in her neighborhood bodega in the midst of an unexpected tragedy. Based on the award-winning feature script, Noor.

Writer/Director: Nijla Mu'min
Producer: Avril Speaks

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Nora's Mother and Nora's Husband follow the already-produced Nora to create a trilogy of films that weave together to consider the existential vis-a-vis the banal. These queer fever dreams are a stylized, stylish look at a pivotal moment in which three complicated characters consider a single, simple question: Who am I? Inspired by Shakespearean soliloquies and TikTok rants, Nora… explores the vulnerability and narcissism of publicly sharing a private reflection.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer/Actor: Neil D'Astolfo
Producer/Editor: Erika Kramer
Producer: Kevin Bender

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How a mother’s search for her son led to the defeat of a dictatorship and inspired a new generation of women to fight for their freedoms.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Jayson McNamara, Andrea Tortonese
Producer: Sarah Schoellkopf

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Celebrity chef Susan Feniger, the bubbly “Mary Tyler Moore” of the cooking world, must team up with a foul-mouthed, scotch swilling “influencer” to save her flagging TV career. It’s a match made in hell.

Creator/Producer/Director: Liz Lachman
Cast: Susan Feniger

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After a blow up during basketball practice, Olivia struggles to face a deeper devastating reality in rural Montana.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Mikaela Bruce
Writer/Producer: v.c. rhone
Executive Producer: Jen Buckley-Murphy, Luna Zhang

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A Nigerian-Italian girl secretly witnesses a white Italian boy she grew up with commit a hate crime, and wrestles with whether to speak up or not when the boy shows up to her home the next day.

Project type: Fiction Short
Producer/Co-Writer/"Renzo": Will Graziano
Director: Francesca Castelbuono
Executive Producer: Bradley Gallo
Executive Producer: Olivia Hurd
Co-Writer: Daphne Di Cinto
Co-Writer: Alanna Bennett
Script Consultant: Angelica Pesarini

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When 32-year-old father Ady Barkan is diagnosed with ALS, a terminal illness that will soon paralyze his entire body, he decides to use the time he has left to confront the politicians who threaten his health care and America’s democracy. As he loses his ability to speak, he sets out across the country with his wife, 2-year old son, and a motley crew of activists to launch the most unlikely political movement in a generation.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Nicholas Bruckman
Producer: Amanda Roddy

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“Not So Far Away Places” is a Russian euphemism for prison. From 2016 to 2022, a lawyer and human rights activist entered SIZO pre-trial detention centres — overcrowded, freezing spaces where the accused await judgment, cut off from family and exposed to violence and systemic abuse.

Cowriter and Codirector: Renato Borrayo Serrano
Cowriter and Codirector: Yulia Vishnevets
Line Producer: Vlad Ketkovich

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A woman in the midst of an anxiety attack is confronted with questions about her own existence by two characters, who happen to be voices in her head.

Project type: Fiction Short
Producers: Kavi Ladnier, Rohi Mirza Pandya, Anita Hodges
Director/Screenplay: Kymberly Harris

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