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

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On the eve of her high-school graduation, rebellious teenager Sarah acquires a gun to exact revenge on a man that raped her years prior. Sarah must reconsider her choices when she discovers this man is now the single parent to a baby daughter.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Marfisia Bel
Producer: Esteban Zuluaga
Director of Photography: Brody Anderson

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Wisconsin, one of the most incarcerated states in America, abolished parole in 1998 changing the fate of 3,000 parole eligible inmates in its prison system overnight, sparking an inferno of activism and debate surrounding this population from the high offices of government to the streets of Milwaukee as the state grapples with solutions to curb its alarming rate of mass incarceration.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Keith McQuirter

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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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A manic youth pastor’s naked streak during a Sunday service thrusts church leadership into a PR crisis, relying on an agnostic intern to navigate the fallout.

Writer/Director/Producer: Erin Brown Thomas
Producer: Anna Baumgarten, Elle Shaw
Producer/Performer: Kristoffer Polaha
Executive Producer: Tara Hotchkis

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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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