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Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Thy Tran
Producer: Giovanni Labadessa
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Garrett (17) - a teenage cinephile whose congenital heart defect all-but guarantees he'll die before he's thirty - gets tapped to launch a media campaign for Sunburst Cinemas - a dying, independent movie theater, whose antiquated amenities, inept manager, and hapless, rag-tag employees all-but-guarantee it won't survive the summer.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer: Mark Wilson
Writer/Producer: Chris Retts
Producer: J.P. Oullette
Producer: Dylan Matlock
Executive Producer: Hilary Barraford
Cinematographer: Thomas Rose
Composer: Jacob Boyd
Sound Editor: Will Digby
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A Chinese-American mother and daughter pull into a gas station in rural Virginia but are refused service for being Asian. Mary stubbornly refuses to drive away until she gets served, so eight-year-old Shelly uses her imagination to help her mother preserve dignity in the face of racism. A dark comedy set in the 80’s. Based on a true story.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Christy Chan
Consulting Producer: Nico Opper
Executive Producer: Gordon Yamate
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In a war-torn country, a young girl named Danuta and her family play a dangerous game of hide-and-seek with soldiers as they struggle to survive.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Matt Balcerek
Producer: Pinar Binay
Director of Photography: Łukasz Dziedzic
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The sun sets too often on pregnant women in Nigeria who face an inescapable reality - to live or die. In Sunset, we follow some women on a journey to remove the veil of Nigeria's dichotomic healthcare system.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Adaku Uwandu
Producer: Ife Olatunji
Cinematographer: Gilliam De La Torre
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Triggered and wanting to escape her past trauma, Naomi, a young Asian American female, falls into the world of blackjack to regain a sense of control but finds herself addicted to the game.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Jess Dang
Producer: Jessica Olthof, Darren Haruo Rae
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Meet Jim. A police cadet fresh out of the academy who gets in over his head when he tries resolving a domestic abuse case outside the legal system. Good luck, Jim.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Quinn Armstrong
Producer: Colin West
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A private peek behind the curtain at award-winning celebrity chef, Susan Feniger, as she tries to create her first solo restaurant in Los Angeles: Susan Feniger’s STREET. The adventure of hunting down delicious street food takes Susan to Southeast Asia, China and then back to Los Angeles where the recipes refuse to behave and the build-out of the new restaurant goes horribly, horribly wrong.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Lisa Lachman
Producer: Lisa Donmall-Reeve
Co-Producer: Myrta Vida
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Swearing is a dramedy short film about GOD, SEX, and GROWING UP.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Mary Bronaugh
Producer: Natalie Galdamez
Leading Role/Executive Producer Sari Arambulo
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Writer: Michael Radford
Producer: Amanda Kiely, Sevier Crespo
Executive Producer: Niels Juul
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Switches is near future comedy about a couple on the brink of divorce who take a pill to save their marriage.
Producer: Brandon Broussard
Producer: Stephen Love
Producer: Justin Polk
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Symphony of Silence follows Amazonian sound recordist Josue Borman and hearing-impaired acoustic ecologist Gordon Hempton on a cross-continent cinematic journey, exploring how sound connects us to the planet, and what we stand to lose when we stop listening.
Director: Julianne Sato-Parker
Producer: Bridie Bischoff
Director of Photography: Megan Clark
Editor : Dan Sadowsky
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Shot over the lead actor’s first year on Testosterone, T follows Em through their journey of gender discovery, and the challenges and joys they face in their romantic relationships, friendships, and family.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Lane Michael Stanley
Producer: Lowell Blank
Executive Producer: Deb Fink
Lead Actor/Story: Mel Glickman
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Ta Ta, Dear follows a son at his dying mother’s staged “pre-wake,” her final performance, where he must choose to confront her or play along amid the chaos and dark comedy of her last act.
Writer/Director: Brandon Tyson
Producer: Adam Edery
Director of Photography: Gus Bendinelli
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Through intimate first-hand accounts, refugees describe their near-impossible journeys of hope from their African homes to European cities. Alongside, social and other aid workers provide a framework for challenges new immigrants often face as they attempt integration.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Daniel W Smith
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Two pretentious Upper East Side New Yorkers are blackballed from the local theatre scene and decide their only recourse is to travel to Fargo, ND and start a theatrical revolution.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer: Noam Tomaschoff
Writer/Executive Producer: Chelsea Frei
Producer: Matthew Cooper
Director of Photography: Arlen Konopaki
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In a night of rebellion, 16-year-old Naomi confronts the disturbing truth that lives in her basement, in an effort to break free from her family’s dysfunction.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Nicola Ríos
Producer: Julie Chen, Valeria Benítez
Director of Photography: Ethan Wen
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An overnight stay becomes an eternal nightmare as a couple’s presence at Carver Hill sparks a supernatural force that refuses to release them.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer: Hollis Sherman-Pepe
Producer: Hollis Sherman-Pepe, Jean Louise O'Sullivan, Scott Fleisher
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After an unexpected one night stand, two women at very different stages of their lives, share an even more intimate morning after.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Felicia Pride
Producer: Regina Hoyles
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After finding what he thinks is the perfect couple, a determined twenty year old boy turns to escorting in order to support his terminally ill grandfather.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Actor: Howard Campbell
Producer: Misha Zvagilskiy