Mitchell (Lamorne Morris) races full speed into the desert in his 77' Lincoln Town Car with his best friend Steve (Kyle Shevrin) riding shotgun, a leather-bound book of the dead at their feet and a trunk full of problems.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Shea E. Butler
Producer: Fiona Hardingham

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A documentary film that explores beauty pageant culture through the lens of a former contestant.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Mandi Reno-Matarrese
Producers: Joseph and Phillip Matarrese

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A young trans successful businesswoman is not having the same luck with dating men. When she starts a dance class to learn how to waltz and finds a new friend and course partner she doesn't want to get her hopes too high, but it is not easy for someone as romantic as she is.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Producer: Ava Davis
Director: Hillary R. Heath
Producer: Madison Hatfield
Cinematographer: Abijeet Achar
Editor/Producer: Nicole Kemper
Associate Producer: Jamie Dion
Associate Producer: Clarinda D'Cruz
Associate Producer: Jason Gonsalves
Production Designer: Crystal Jin Kim
Costume Designer: Alan Yeong-Marcello

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A Jewish woman takes shelter in the closet of a Polish couple in 1943. A child is soon born and their lives are irrevocably changed.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Michael Masarof
Producer: Sharon Barnes

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When a depressed young writer in the late 19th century is restricted by her well-intentioned physician husband to a summer of bed rest in a remote country estate, her isolation — and marriage — sets in motion her descent into madness.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Kevin Pontuti
Producer/Lead Actor: Alexandra Loreth

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A documentary short exposing an unsettling truth: The United States no longer welcomes the “tired, poor, huddled masses” we’re telling to “get in line” for the American dream. There is no line anymore, not for them.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director: Sharon Boeckle
Executive Producer: Matt Cameron

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This Crooked World is a deliciously playful thriller that follows two women and the nefarious characters pursuing them across the US-Mexico border. It draws inspiration from Fargo, Snatch, and Thelma & Louise.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Producer: Lisa Donmall-Reeve
Producer: Tom Wilton
Director: Maria McIndoo

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On the night of their wedding anniversary, a bohemian theatre actress and a beatnik inspired writer confront the strife of their relationship, dreams and the city they once loved.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Hassan Said
Producer: Masha Karpoukhina
Writer: Lourdes Figueroa
Cinematographer: Peggy Peralta

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Pearlette, Tammy and Terry are Three (Extra)Ordinary Women of color who collectively have overcome poverty, abuse, systemic racism, and political occupation. The film will explore their life stories and how the parallels between the Palestinian occupation and Jim Crow in the United States have equally disenfranchised people of color. Braving their biggest physical obstacle yet – climbing to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro– will show women of color can accomplish anything.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Cionin Lorenzo
Executive Producer: Pearlette J Ramos
Director of Photography: Nick Kalisz
Cinematographer: Steve Vanderheide

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An experimental long-form visual poem about a solo female traveler reflecting on the principles of human existence through a woman’s lens. Her fragmented memories are juxtaposed with natural imagery captured from Iceland and Africa. The two polar opposite locations visually represent the cognitive dissonance in us all.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/WriterProducer/Editor: Aimee Jennings

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To the Land follows three friends and their small organic farm located on the California Coast. Over the course of a year, Brisa Ranch faces challenges and setbacks that put not only their friendship and farm at risk, but the very land they call home.

To the Land is a cinema verité portrayal of the struggles and joys found on the land and the resilience of those who grow the food that feeds our country.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Katie Bancroft
Producer: Libby Hart

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When a collaboration between two influencers unexpectedly turns romantic, Samantha Carr's perfect night takes a downturn, forcing her to navigate today’s toughest choice: what’s more important - love or Likes?

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Talia Light Rake

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They say Tragedy + Time = Comedy. In the aftermath of 9/11, humor remained America’s most vital tool against fear, anger, and pain. Too Soon is the twenty-year chronology of how comedy stopped completely, slowly regained its footing, and finally grew bigger and more powerful than ever, allowing all of us to unite and heal in the process.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Nick Scown
Producer: Julie Seabaugh

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After surviving a violent attack by an anti-science extremist, a dedicated public health researcher must defend her controversial health study on a major news show. As she struggles to hold herself together, she is torn between protecting herself and fighting for the greater good.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Terra Wellington
Consulting Producer: Nina Martinek
Composers: Alexa L. Borden and Connor Cook

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A father and son in tornado country find themselves in parallel dreams, chasing the eye of a storm they fear holds a troubling family secret.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Producer: David Connor
Director: John Fairchild
Cinematographer: Matthew Shoichi Wilder

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A poet and a visual artist grapple to understand the world around them while practicing physical-distancing during the tumultuous year of 2020.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Alejandro Miranda Cruz
Producer: Noel Miranda
Cinematographer: Greg Hatton
Cast: Matthew Charles
Cast: Brooke Leland

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A chaotically-ambitious gay in South Florida ignores the warning of his friends and family who are all worried about him talking to his ex-fiancé again, but his lies to them only cover the toxic attachment he has to the love of his life.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer: Gerard Shaka
Director: Brook Karner
Producer: Ayana Jones
Associate Producer: Cieara Little
Director of Photography: Shari Petti

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1941 – Far away from the barbarity of the War, in Lebanon. Following a Sunday lunch that goes sour, Matile, mother of eleven, imposes her laws on both the General of the French Mandate and the Head of the Church, by shaking the established customs.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writers/Directors/Producers: Zarazir Brothers
Co-Producer: Nadia Turincev

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When a small-town bra factory worker joins his high school friend in a runaway plot, he is confronted with his own queerness.