After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, a young Hasidic man experiences a nightmarish transformation that leads him right back to where he started. Over the course of one painful night, Efrayim Eisenstein will come to realize that it's much easier to shave your beard than to shed who you are.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Elazar Fine
Producer: Kale Davidoff
Producer: Jake Bridgman
Director of Photography: Nicholas Bupp
Editor: Danny Gianino

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Over a decade ago, a loving mother of three, Marisol Reina, crossed the Mexico-U.S. border to provide a better life for her family, today she moves back home in hopes to reconnect with the family she once had to leave behind.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer/Editor: Ericka de Alexander
Associate Producer/ Post Sound: Trisha Golec

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The Climate Scientists is a documentary series about the compelling work and heroic tactics of experts around the world during a pivotal time, as they try to stop the climate crisis from becoming a catastrophe.

Climate scientists have known for decades that our biosphere is in grave danger. They have warned us, but we haven't listened. Now as climate impacts intensify, we are relying on them to tell us what to do.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Holly Becker
Director/Producer: Carey McKenzie
Executive Producer: Brian Hill

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A day at the beach turns sinister when ten-year-old Lana spies her father's violent interactions with a young woman..

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Mary Ann Anane
Producer: Nicole Palermo, Nneka Mbadugha

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A social media agency gets a new client; a corporation who wants to run for president.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Isabel Steuble-Johnson
Director: Amy H C Wilson
Co-Producer: Léa Barisset
Writer: Emily Carlton

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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Adam Guerino
Cinematographer: Matthew Lynn
Cast: Nicole Clifford

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Standup comedian Fred Le hears the stories of a diverse range of young overseas-born Vietnamese who made their way back to the land that their parents left following the end of the Vietnam War. The Empathizer explores identity and the impact of trauma among Việt Kiều who grew up a generation removed from tragic events of the past.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: Fred Le
Co-Director/Cinematographer: Bret Hamilton
Editor/Producer: Hak Lonh

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When a young girl hitchhiking is picked up by a middle-aged man, who ends up taking whom for a ride?

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Amanda Renee Knox
Producer: Lara Aslanian
Producer: Amanda Renee Knox
Writer: Mira Olsson
Cinematography: Nick Ramsey

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The story of a wildly eccentric 80-year old artist, who followed his creative calling and never looked back.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Ivan Cash
Executive Producer: Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody
Producer: Jake Ewald

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October 1992. A group of law students head to a remote home upstate where a girl disappeared two years earlier.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Jaclyn Bethany
Producer/Executive Producer: C.C. Kellogg
Producer/Executive Producer: Isabelle Chester
Director of Photography: Kenny Suleimanagich
Editor: Soojin Chung

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When a beauty enhancement drug causes a zombie apocalypse in LA, Keesha and Toya debate whether or not they should fight to survive in a world that doesn't appreciate or respect Black women.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Rochée Jeffrey
Producer: Ebony Elaine Hardin
Producer: Takara Joseph
Cinematographer: Phillip Jackson

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A lonesome clown in search of means, understanding and unconditional love joins the circus only to find themselves more lost than ever.

Project Type: Fiction Short
Co-Director/Writer: Silken Weinberg
Co-Director/Camera Operator: Angela Ricciardi
Executive Producers: Angela Ricciardi and Silken Weinberg
Producer: Riley Bradford
Director of Photography: Robert Nachman
Production Designer: Lieyah Dagan
Editor: Manoli Despines
Graphic Design: Chase Shewbridge
Original Score: Sasami Ashworth
Sound Design: Poppy Jean Crawford and Angela Ricciardi

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A mother and son drive towards opposite sides of the Mexico-US border wall to reunite after decades apart.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Francisco Lopez
Producer/Writer: Mitchka Saberi
Producer: Gareth Kelly
Co-Producer: Joey Szalkiewicz
Director of Photography: Alex Gorman
Sound Mixer: Adam Cox

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Three Sinhalese women in their 30s and their families, unknown to each other, are crossed with one another’s lives by suicide bomb blasts done by Muslim extremists but the tracking down of their lives reveals an entirely different story about them and their connection to the bomb blasts.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Lanka Bandaranayake
Producer: Iranthi Abesinghe
Cinematographer: Chandana Jayasinghe
Editor: Nanda Nandi Jayakody
Makeup Artist: Narada Thotagamuwa

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The Syrian War has impacted the lives of millions,but the media around the crisis rests largely in the hands of those who view it from the outside. As a result, the narratives are theirs. The Hakawati (storyteller, Arabic) Project is a 2 month comprehensive filmmaking lab aiming to foster the creative expression and sharpen the filmmaking tools of those impacted by the Syrian crisis, and offer alternative narratives to the ones mainstream media amplifies.

Project type: Interactive
Co-Founder/Project Director: Sona Tatoyan
Co-Founder: Jennifer Robinson
Producer: Raffi Niziblian
Project Manager: Anna Kamay
Producer of Labs: Nare Mkrtyan
Consultant: Jennifer Kushner

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A Filipino sugar cane workers' strike in Hawai'i in 1924 becomes explosive, leading to the deaths of 16 strikers and four police deputies. A fog of fear and reprisals in its aftermath grips Filipinos, as surviving strikers are arrested, tried and many jailed or deported. The young Higher Wage Movement is crushed during this tumultuous beginnings of Hawaii's labor history. Suppressed for 95 years, this virtually a forgotten history must be told.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Exectuive Producer: Stephanie J. Castillo
Co-Executive Director: Randall Francisco
Producer/Lead Researcher: Christopher Ballesteros

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Two lonely Angelenos. One apartment complex. And a hole in the ceiling that brings them together.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Courtney Karwal
Writer: Rachel Forman
Producer: Paige Klone

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Deep within the Nicaraguan jungle, a mysterious mental disorder appears among isolated indigenous communities. A psychologist sets out on a dangerous journey to find the cause of the illness. Along the way, he witnesses frightening testimonials and symptoms that seem related to acts of violence, rape, and murder by land grabbers.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Felipe Roa Pilar
Producer: Thor Hampus Bank
Producer: Dara Nicole Díaz Ríos
Director of Photography: Jorge Roa Pilar

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Shortly after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, a popular Jewish ice cream parlor owner, Ernst Cahn, finds himself targeted by the infamous "Butcher of Lyon," Klaus Barbie. As his world crumbles, The Ice Cream Man must choose between resistance and death...a choice that will reverberate throughout the country. Based on actual events.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Robert Moniot
Producer: Gregor Wilson
Visual Effects Supervisor: Todd Sheridan-Perry

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In a world obsessed with perfection, an eclectic woman realizes that life is better imperfect.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Coxy Chiara Rodoni
Producers: Tre’Shonda Sheffey, Adam Hahn, Dan Punshon Smith
Executive Producers: Coxy Chiara Rodoni, Sanjay Seuranine

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