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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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A struggling young photographer and a recovering juvenile delinquent yearn to escape their farm town in Santa Ynez Valley, California.
Co-Writer/Director/Producer: Réi
Co-Writer : Ayi
Lead Actor: Isabella Ferreira, Dallas Liu
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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
Executive Producer: Devon Deming
Executive Producer: Tonia Chao Hsieh
Executive Producer: Jaice DuMars
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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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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 young boy’s unique relationship with an old sculpture becomes strained when it’s revealed his family has gone missing.
Writer/Director/Composer: Taylor Joshua Rankin
Producer: Pokey Spears
Consulting Producer: Craig Blair
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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