Sophia Uehara, a mixed-race filmmaker and Unitarian Universalist, documents her congregation’s upheaval in adopting the 8th Principle, an anti-racist pledge. Interviewing various BIPOC UU leaders and activists across the United States, she explores the challenge of holding a mostly white religious community accountable to its ideals, exposing tensions between belief, allyship, and action.

Director: Sophia Uehara
Producer: Nicole Palermo
Cinematographer: Alexander Lu

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The Alzheimer Code, a groundbreaking documentary, that follows the filmmaker's journey into the heart-wrenching world of Alzheimer's disease, unveiling untold personal stories, scientific revelations, and the quest for a multi-faceted cure. As the lens captures the resilience of those affected and the innovative Bredesen Protocol, the film becomes a beacon of hope, challenging conventions and redefining the narrative surrounding Alzheimer's research.

Director: Marcus Vetter, Sol Tryon
Producer: Erik Felderhof, Ulf Meyer

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Their lives are filled with struggle, triumph, bravery and courage. Experience the stories and songs of everyday heroes who are fighting for their dreams.

Project type: Nonfiction Episodic
Director/Producer/Cinematographer: David Rochkind

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Every love story is a ghost story...

Writer/Director/Editor: Johnny Coffeen
Production Designer: John Frame
Actors: Alex Essoe, Lou Taylor Pucci

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A man in search of a local lake monster finds the real answer he has been looking for.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Bruno Mattos Rubeiz
Producer: Samantha Lori Glass
Co-Producer: Angeline Dimambro, Kristin Kohlmeyer, Roger Glass

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The Bears on Pine Ridge is a documentary film that follows heroic citizens on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, as they battle both a catastrophic youth suicide epidemic and a lawless non-Native border-town that is plaguing the reservation with alcohol addiction.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Noel Bass
Executive Producer: Sonny SkyHawk

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When two filmmakers reconnect, post-injury, they embark on a journey to understand the world of concussions; exploring why traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are globally misunderstood and what happens when radical empathy and understanding the brain leads to healing.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Zoë Salnave

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With unfettered access, The Body Politic follows Baltimore’s idealistic young mayor into office where he puts his personal and political future on the line to save his beloved city from chronic violence.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough
Producer: Dawne Langford

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When an incarcerated pregnant woman goes into labor, she must fight to stay connected to her baby in a system built to keep them apart.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Jahmil Eady
Producer: Selena Leoni
Producer: Reina Higashitani
Cinematographer: Gionatan Tecle
Editor: Zheyu Liang

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Director: Rob Mayes
Producer: Andrew Carlberg
Writer/Producer: Casey Baker

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An intimate look into the astonishing bond, joyful spirits, and genetically-matched musical mastery of the Canote Twins.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer/Videographer/Editor: Larry Edelman
Associate Editor: Casey Edelman
Videographer: Mark Herlinger
Story Consultant: Joe Herrmann
Photographic and Graphic Specialists: Hilary Hart, Tom Collicott, John Gallagher

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After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, a young Hasidic man experiences a nightmarish transformation that leads him right back to where he started. Over the course of one painful night, Efrayim Eisenstein will come to realize that it's much easier to shave your beard than to shed who you are.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Elazar Fine
Producer: Kale Davidoff
Producer: Jake Bridgman
Director of Photography: Nicholas Bupp
Editor: Danny Gianino

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Over a decade ago, a loving mother of three, Marisol Reina, crossed the Mexico-U.S. border to provide a better life for her family, today she moves back home in hopes to reconnect with the family she once had to leave behind.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer/Editor: Ericka de Alexander
Associate Producer/ Post Sound: Trisha Golec

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The Climate Scientists is a documentary series about the compelling work and heroic tactics of experts around the world during a pivotal time, as they try to stop the climate crisis from becoming a catastrophe.

Climate scientists have known for decades that our biosphere is in grave danger. They have warned us, but we haven't listened. Now as climate impacts intensify, we are relying on them to tell us what to do.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Holly Becker
Director/Producer: Carey McKenzie
Executive Producer: Brian Hill

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A day at the beach turns sinister when ten-year-old Lana spies her father's violent interactions with a young woman..

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Mary Ann Anane
Producer: Nicole Palermo, Nneka Mbadugha

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A social media agency gets a new client; a corporation who wants to run for president.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Isabel Steuble-Johnson
Director: Amy H C Wilson
Co-Producer: Léa Barisset
Writer: Emily Carlton

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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Adam Guerino
Cinematographer: Matthew Lynn
Cast: Nicole Clifford

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Standup comedian Fred Le hears the stories of a diverse range of young overseas-born Vietnamese who made their way back to the land that their parents left following the end of the Vietnam War. The Empathizer explores identity and the impact of trauma among Việt Kiều who grew up a generation removed from tragic events of the past.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: Fred Le
Co-Director/Cinematographer: Bret Hamilton
Editor/Producer: Hak Lonh

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When a young girl hitchhiking is picked up by a middle-aged man, who ends up taking whom for a ride?

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Amanda Renee Knox
Producer: Lara Aslanian
Producer: Amanda Renee Knox
Writer: Mira Olsson
Cinematography: Nick Ramsey

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The story of a wildly eccentric 80-year old artist, who followed his creative calling and never looked back.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Ivan Cash
Executive Producer: Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody
Producer: Jake Ewald

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