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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
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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.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Alex Jiang
Producer: Xinyu Zhao
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A restless young immigrant, working at an isolated Punjabi truckstop in the California desert, must decide whether she truly wants out.
Project type: Fiction Short
Project status: Development
Director: Molly Karna
Producer: Julia Elizabeth Evans
Co-Producer: Rob Rice
Associate Producer: Tanishq Babel
Cinematographer: Elisabetta "Fox" Piantoni
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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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When Lynda’s mother dies just because the color of her skin bars her from getting a life-saving blood transfusion, Lynda and her schoolmates risk their very lives on the frontlines of Dr. King’s movement – spending more time in Alabama’s jails than classrooms.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Gilda Ann Brasch
Executive Producer: Roberta Korus
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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Glen Penfield’s inspiring true story brings us hope to unite scientific and religious explanations of the universe. In an Indiana Jones like detective adventure, Glen who is both a geologist and a man of faith discovers the end of the dinosaurs and origin of human life on earth.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Producer: James Guyer, Colin Bates, Santiago Garcia Galvin
Director: Gabriela Tagliavini
Legal & Sales: George Rush
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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