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Oasis

A thriller about a collection of confident women who begin spending time at a midcentury home with a bachelor who offers them an interesting escape and ''members only" solution to their problems, only to experience him nurturing their insecurities into an entirely different form. As they descend into an unconventional bacchanal, one innocent voyeur puts things right.

Writer/Director: Anne Marie Boidock
Producer: Jay Johnson
Music Supervisor: Alex Suskind

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Ocean Moon, Water Mother (海月 水母)

An elderly woman being priced out of her family home on O'ahu, Hawai'i must decide whether to leave the islands for good, or start anew with the help of an ancient island entity.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Melina Kiyomi Coumas
Associate Producer: B Okabe
Cinematographer: Miles Sprietsma

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October Mourning

Henry, a Black man grieving the unexpected loss of his father, finds himself regretting all the conversations they never had, when an opportunity arises for them to talk one final time.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Frederick Thornton
Producer: Gia Rigoli
Producer: Sean Hackett
Executive Producer: Fanshen Cox

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Oh, No!

A Rom-Com with a splash of sci-fi about a time loop rebellion against fate.

Writer/Director/Producer: Scott Mckinney
Producer/Composer: Jackson Brown
Producer: Benjamin Hatmaker

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Ojo Por Ojo

After watching a man rob a blind person in Mexico City, an ophthalmologist takes revenge by deliberately deceiving the robber about a pair of eclipse glasses — unleashing a chain reaction that blinds an entire community.

Filmmaker: Pablo Riesgo
Cinematographer: Marko Alonso
Production Designer: Andres Domit Del Valle

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Old Ladies Find Money

On a storm-ravaged beach, two women-of-a-certain-age find $2.5 Million and take it, knowing no one will suspect them. But when a couple of baddies show up looking for their cash and a townie ends up dead, the women must come up with a plan to save their community.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: AR Nicholas
Associate Producer: Marla Friedson

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Oldhead

A young man that’s been living a life of crime has finally come face to face with his fate but it’s up to his Godfather to save him from making the biggest mistake of his life.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Tony Chennault
Producer: Joshua Meekins
Producer: Osagie Johnson
Producer: Shandra McDonald
Executive Producers: Brandon Pankey, Christina Faith, Stephon Barnes

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Oma

A nurse’s unexpected transfer to the isolated Austrian Alps to care for an impaired woman turns into a nightmare when the patient forces her into a series of psychological and sadistic games.

Director: Bianca Foscht, Dilara Foscht
Producer: Ilayda Cetinkaya
Cinematographer: Leo Behrens

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Once A Valley Dreams

Weaving a tapestry of a place and a people, Once A Valley Dream traces a history of the first CA Indian Reservations, land dispossession, and a centuries-long struggle for land and recognition for the Kitanemuk people of the Tejon Tribe. Diving into both the memories and struggles of Tejon Indian Tribal members working to reclaim tribal community and share their history, the film sets out to tell a collective story of coming home–a 21st century creation story from Native California.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Project status: Development
Director/Producer: Colin Rosemont
Director: Sandra Hernandez

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One Among You

A woman, trapped in a ghostlike purgatory, must embrace her ancestral power to save everyone she loves from manipulation and murder at the hands of her killer — her own half-sister.

Writer/director: Jorge Rivera
Writer/Producer: Gabriela Revilla Lugo
Producer: Evelyn Angelica Martinez

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One for the Road

Two movers reluctantly help a lost man in the dead of the night, only to realize far too late the trap they've gotten themselves into. A horror short, based on a story by Stephen King.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer: Corey Slater
Director: Daniel Carsenty
Producer: Blaine Morris

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One Magenta Afternoon

The lesson is love: when Pop Pop and his grandson, Les, play jazz, they summon six queer spirits and tumble through their memories.

Project type: Fiction Short
Producer: Vernon Jordan III
Cinematographer: Brian Emilio Rojas
Producers: Cynthia Francillon and Matthew Keene Smith
Executive Producers: Jamal Parker and Tarell Alvin McCraney

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One Small Request

A married couple’s relationship takes a turn when the notion of inviting a third person into their bedroom sparks a heated dispute between them.

Project type: Fiction Short
Co-Writer/Director: Erwin Alejandro Ordóñez
Co-Writer: Neilkanth Dave
Producer: Bobbie Lucas, Julia Schmidt

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Only Bears

Over the course of one wildly unpredictable day, two married bears attempt to rekindle their intimacy—but between traffic, screenings, queer social chaos, and a stranger handing them A used pizza, life keeps acting like the pushy “third” in their relationship.

Producer/Writer : Adam Kern
Co Creator: Jeff Willey
Director: Billy Clift

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Opera™ – The Lonely Blue World

In a whimsical universe made of music, a lonely blue world, Blue, struggles to find its place. Just as Blue is ready to give up, an unexpected bond with an opposite world, Red, changes its course forever. Will their bond stand the tests of time?

Creator/Writer/Director: Jordan Miles Rosenheck
Lead Animator: Victor Scorrano

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Oranges

As free-spirited Lucia prepares to leave her bordertown home for Mexico City in 1972, her responsible, older sister Griselda struggles to hold it together until a final moment at a streetcar stop cracks open the silence between them.

Writer/Director: Valeria Contreras
Producer: Soumya Singh
Director of Photography: Rebeca Durán

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Oscillation Transia Film Festival

Oscillation Transia Film Festival is a non-profit traveling event, exploring the intersection of solar energy application and environmental awareness through the art of film.

Project type: Festival
Festival Director: Jess Giacobbe
Festival Engineer: Austin Krause

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Our Lives After

Two survivors of a synagogue shooting form an unexpected bond that becomes instrumental in navigating their individual paths through grief.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Jacqueline Elyse Rosenthal
Writer: David M. Stern
Actor/Producer: Anthony B. Caldwell
Producers: Zechariah Thormodsgaard, Yoni Rusnak, Asia Bonetto, and Noah Finn

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Out In The Streets

Out In The Streets reveals the untold history of graffiti and street art as a tool for queer activism through the personal stories of a global artist community.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Daniel Albanese
Producer: Jonathon Roessler

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Out of Tune

A proud Black woman must confront the racial implications of her genuine love for the classic-rock band, Journey.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Portlynn Tagavi
Writer/Lead Actress: Erika Hamilton
Producer: Alexis Sterling
Executive Producer: Mel Jones
Cinematographer:Kalilah Robinson

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