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As her faith community betrays the Jesus they taught her to love, an evangelical filmmaker reckons with the political identity she built her life on.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Kristen Irving
Producer: Julian Cautherley
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While we all carry our individual burdens, we don’t have to do so alone. TRUE. TALK. DOCS. bring awareness to those things we bury deep or hide from others (especially on social media), while highlighting those achievements that we feel more comfortable sharing.
Project type: Nonfiction Episodic
Director/Producer: Mary Gerretsen
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Turning Fifteen is a voting rights documentary following three generations of women, from three underrepresented communities, in three states. Each generation has a timeless tale to tell, revealing a hard truth - we have been here before.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Gilda Ann Brasch
Executive Producer: Paula Munoz Vega
Executive Producer: Autumn Udell
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After a man-made disaster decimates an evergreen island, a stranded 11-year-old girl must find the tenacity to leave behind her home with the help of an unlikely friend - the majestic Manta Ray.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Kateryna Kurganska Gorbanov
Producer: C. Craig Patterson
Producer: Don John
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At an inflexible Japanese immersion school, multi-ethnic students battle biases and risk everything not to get expelled in order to beat their Kpop dance team rivals, while untangling who they are inside.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Silvano-Mari Robinson
Creative Director: Albert Vazquez
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Trapped in a prison of sugar cane, a man will do whatever it takes to cling to his past.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Ann Valdés
Producer: Via Bia
Director of Photography: Terra Gutmann-Gonzalez
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Eva rebels against her uptight Asian American parents by getting engaged to a White, hippie boy, but when she accidentally shoots him dead during a family hunting trip, mom, dad and daughter have to sort through their own dysfunctional dynamics to figure out who’s taking the blame or getting rid of the body.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Zao Wang
Co-Writer: Tom Toro
Co-Writer: Carmiel Banasky
Producer: Joyce Liu-Countryman
Producer: Louise Barretto
Executive Producer: Margaret Cho
Director of Photography: Brian Nguyen
Production Designer: Emma Koh
Editor: Shannon C. Griffin
Costume Designer: Ashley Medina
Cast: Margaret Cho as June
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Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Actor/Executive Producer: Kit Williamson
Executive Producer/Director/Actor: Miranda Bailey
Director/Writer/Producer/Actor: James Bland
Executive Producer: Christopher Miller, Jason Beck, H Shen, Erwin More, Edward Ruttenberg, Larissa James
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Priyanka Agrawal is a politically active and foul mouthed Indian American college student. After her mother tragically dies, she is forced to go to India to scatter her ashes, and in the process, finds a new sense of self.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Urvashi Pathania
Producer: Ayesha Nadarajah
Cinematographer: Vanon Li
Editor: Pratyush Dubey
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On the verge of his Bar Mitzvah, Simon's recurring nightmares about dropping the Torah threaten to derail his big day.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Yale Fried
Producer/Director of Photography: Isaak Popkin
Producer: Chris Dooly, Liv Boren
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In 1963, a white civil rights activist is murdered while on a Freedom Walk to deliver a letter to the governor of Mississippi. Within a week, a diverse group of Freedom Walkers attempts to complete the walk and are arrested. Forty-five years later, a woman commits to walk the same path and ensure the letter is finally delivered, alongside the surviving Freedom Walkers.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Writer: Laura Cross
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Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Co-Director: Natalie Berger, Moira Fett
Producer: Martha Gregory, Sean Weiner
Story Consultant: Logan O'Shea
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Facing social and political instability in the US, and also in some of their home countries, four foreign university students from four different countries struggle internally and externally with their own versions of the American Dream as they pursue their degrees in Utah—can they forge a life here?
Project Type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Ya-Chi Yang
Producer: Mengxu Pan
Writer: Sonia Albert-Sobrino
Co-producer: Miriam Albert-Sobrino
Editor: Stan Clawson
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On the day of her friend’s engagement party, Angie, an Asian-American woman, unearths her chilling preference for white men. She finds herself trapped by her friends’ equally shared preference and by her inability to escape her own attraction.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Co-Writer: Alisha Bhowmik
Co-Writer/Producer: Amanda Centeno
Producer: Yuki M. Ledbetter
Consulting Producers: Maya Tanaka and Jalena Keane-Lee
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A woman hires a photographer to document her estranged family’s last day with their dying matriarch, but her sister is running late.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Lucy Gamades
Producer: Mike Ferlita
Director of Photography: Alexa Carroll
Line Producer: Ryan Leibowitz
Casting Director: Joshua Michael Payne
Sound Designer: Michael Spencer
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Suffering from a supernatural malady, a woman returns to her homeland and solicits her sister's help to find a cure, only to walk into a trap that reveals she’s not the only “sick” one.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Producer/Actor: Nomsa L Mlambo
Executive Producer: Tendayi Nyeke
Cinematographer: Bongani Mlambo
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A Wall Street wannabe is swept into the underbelly of New York after meeting a seductive drifter.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Liam Walsh
Producer: Nate Cohen, Kathryn Wright
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When an aging supermodel's (played by Claudia Suleweksi) appeal begins to dim, she visits a magical apothecary in hopes of revitalizing her appearance but quickly learns that beauty comes at a price.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Caroline Iaffaldano
Producer: Tallulah Dirnfeld
Talent/Executive Producer: Claudia Sulewski
Executive Producer: LE Seydel
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On the one year anniversary of her mother's death, a Haitian-American dancer claims her place in a long line of powerful women.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Lunise Cerin
Producer: Danielle Dougé
Co-Producer: Donovan Tolledo
Co-Producer: Love Soulèy
Co-Producer: Cameron Carr
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Vulva La Revolution explores the intersection between science, culture, fem tech, and medicine to explain the phenomenon of medical gaslighting that women experience and illuminate a path toward better health care for all womxn. Accompany trailblazer Dr. Maria Uloko - one of six doctors in the world specializing in sexual health issues of ALL genders - and her fierce team of leaders as they join forces to start a sexual health revolution.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Meredith Yinger
Director/Producer: Dr. Maria Uloko