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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
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Walk With Me follows my husband Charlie’s journey living with early onset Alzheimer’s. We see him as the father, the creative, the husband, the patient, and his authentic self, as he lives life with a diagnosis most people are afraid to talk about. Together, we will meet other women and men also trying to navigate their lives anew and we will explore the next frontier of brain research both in America and abroad.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Co-Director/Producer: Heidi Levitt
Cinematographer: Lisa Rinzler
Producer: Vanessa Perez
Producer/Lead Subject: Charlie Hess
Executive Producer: Alex Gibney
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After being uprooted from their isolated doomsday cult, two best friends are thrust into the modern world and forced to find sanctuary in Los Angeles.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Actor: Scarlett Bress
Writer/Actor: Olivia Singer
Director: Drew Denny
Producer: Isabella Dake
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A disillusioned millennial man bumps into an old classmate and meets his new wife - a disembodied head. Questioning his sanity, the man brings his girlfriend to dinner with the couple.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Directors: Christina Kelly Holmes
Producer: Roxanne Griffith
Cinematographer: Pip White
Production Designer: Esmé Cruz Jackson
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When 22 year-old Rae, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, is targeted by Neo-Nazis in Billings, Montana, her ancestors' trauma becomes real.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Alana Waksman
Executive Producer: Neda Armian
Producer: Jeri Rafter
Producer/Editor: Marshall Granger
Director of Photography: B. Rubén Mendoza
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When a group teenage outsiders find paintball and come together as a team in the late ‘90s, it sends shock waves through their sport, forever changing both the game and themselves.
Producers: Dan Napoli, Alex Fraige, Oliver Lang
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In 1960s California, an L.A. clinic opened its doors to offer conversion therapy to worried parents of LGBTQ children. Doctors wondered if identity was flexible, and designed a project to see if gender and sexuality were the results of nature or nurture. While seeking the truth in this story behind their own identities, two unlikely friends, come together to investigate the ongoing harm of conversion therapy shapes the lives of trans youth today.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Directors: Sé Sullivan & Mauro Sifuentes
Producers: Sé Sullivan & Mauro Sifuentes
Consulting Producer: Marc Smolowitz
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Rayelle Martin, a commercial cleaning woman in Gary, Indiana, stumbles into a new job cleaning the homes of several rich, suburban families. While working, she tells one small lie that spins out of control.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Anu Valia
Producers: Olivia Wingate, Miranda Kahn, Joy Jorgensen, Alex Bach, Zachary Spicer
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In a broken neighborhood on the outskirts of Dublin, a tween struggles with mental illness discovers a hidden world through a graffiti mural, where she transforms into her punk rock alter ego and learns to embrace her true self.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Cassidy Harrison
Co-Writer: Adam Prince
Producer: Carbonated Comet Productions
Animation Producer: Johnny Semerad
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Having spent months consoling her recently dumped best friend Sofia, Rudy, a twenty-nine-year-old pushover must tell hysterical Sofia that she’s moving in with her own boyfriend only to realize that maybe she’s making a huge mistake.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Portlynn Tagavi
Producer: Greg Schroeder
Cinematographer: TJ Thickett
Editor: Camilla Bartoli
Production Designer: Kelly Stark Reckert
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As we near the “Sixth Extinction” of our planet, the evidence is clear: the insect population faces global obliteration, and humanity needs to be prepared. Weeping Rocks is a documentary that focuses on the critical role small organisms play in our fragile ecosystem and the frontline workers who have quietly dedicated their lives to tracing, studying, and cultivating these often overlooked creatures. “Love them or loathe them, we humans cannot survive without insects.”
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Karlis Bergs
Producer: Jackii Chun
Cinematographer: Alexey Kurbatov
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Weight of the World is a televised anthology series with fictional present-day storylines whose dialogue is solely derived from the original transcripts of the federal Workers’ Project Administration (WPA) interviews of formerly enslaved African-Americans during 1936-1938. This is American documentary theatre on screen.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer/Writer: Michelle Renee Jackson, MDiv
Co-Producer: Mark Herzog
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A short film about two queer women recalling their awkward, closeted high school days of kissing boys and straight-girl crushes.
Project type: Fiction Short
Co-writer/Director: Niki Ang
Co-writer/Cinematographer: Karen Du
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What Color is Blue is about the internal impotence that we, as queer youth, feel while facing the people, politicians, and organizations that do not want us to exist.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Cinematographer: Carman Spoto
Producers: Carman Spoto, Quinn Dougherty
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A young woman’s life is flipped upside down by secrets from her mother and she is forced to become the parent instead of the child.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Elizabeth Block
Producers: Daniel McGilvray, Debbie Brubaker
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When a couple arrives home with their newborn baby, all they want to do is sleep, rest, and bond with their little one; but their loud, and opinionated families show up uninvited and refuse to leave.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writers: Gabriela Garcia Medina, Vicki Syal
Director: Gabriela Garcia Medina
Producers: Gabriela Garcia Medina, Vicki Syal, April Chang
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The struggle of two codependent brothers deciding what to eat for dinner becomes a metaphor for larger life decisions when they stay the weekend in the vibrant chaos of LA’s Koreatown with the youngest’s willful girlfriend.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Editor: Brent Howard
Producer: Heather Brawley
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Project type: Fiction Feature
Executive Producer/Director: Akemi K. Tosto
Producers: Takumi Saitoh, Tyler Condon, Maho Morita
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In the most difficult season of her life, a tenacious Park Ranger discovers her inner strength as she navigates the overwhelming challenges of caring for her ailing daughter and aging mother, while embarking on a quest to save an iconic and resilient little tree from rising tides...before it's too late.
Writer/Director/Executive Producer: Deanna Gerstel Harris
Executive Producer: Mel Harris
Animation Director: Youngran Nho