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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Meet Sharon and Sharon; two women on a mission to rescue hundreds of mistreated guinea pigs. From the UK, LA to Peru follow their humorous and heart-warming adventure as they also set out to discover the forgotten history of these curious creatures in the first major documentary about guinea pigs.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Sharon Walia

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After her best friend’s death, Laura embarks on a journey to uncover the truth about her missing brother. Guided by intuition and the women she meets, Laura embarks on a physical and metaphysical journey through cities, mountains, and jungles, uncovering hidden aspects of reality and confronting secrets and spirits that inhabit those lands.

Director: Juanita Onzaga
Producer: Jorge Forero
Cinematographer: Angello Faccini

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Set in a remote forest where a fringe community keeps "the old ways" alive, a struggling mother is forced to bring her daughter to work in their ancient and taboo family business.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Lindsay Zibach
Producer: Sarah Ullman
Director of Photography: Sara Kinney
Production Designer: Madelyn Wilkime

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The Last Spy is the riveting biography of 102-year-old CIA spymaster Peter Sichel, revealing for the first time the epic and unvarnished history of the US foreign intelligence service from the inside. With a good dose of wit and humor to boot, Sichel unpacks the obscured roots of conflicts that plague today’s world and the toll espionage took on his personal life.

Writer/Director: Katharina Otto-Bernstein
Producer: Oleg Dubson, Kathrin Lohmann
Executive Producers: Simon Kilmurry, David Dinerstein, Frida Torresblanco, Frank Murray

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Following the eccentric tenants of a kitschy apartment complex in Niagara Falls.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer: Nick Butler

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A gay Holocaust researcher struggles to convince his boyfriend’s grandfather, a Dachau liberator, to reveal his untold story of gay pink triangle survivors. By lifting their voices and the memories of a secretive Holocaust liberator, this film depicts the power of empathy and healing to crush hate.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Patrick Fritz
Producer: O'Shea" Myles
Producer: Kyle Wilson
Director of Photography: Jeff Caroli
Production Designer: Myra Barrera
Editor: Raymundo Archila

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A secluded woman adheres to a strict schedule with the fear that if she breaks her routine she will die, but when a new female butler arrives, she risks it all for the promise of love.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer: Andrea Maxwell
Writer/Producer: tammy lynne stoner
Producers: Lindsay Lanzillotta, Theresa Burkhart Gallagher, Diana C. Zollicoffer

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This is a film about a witch pretending to be a babysitter.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Donaldo Prescod
Producer: Rebecca Hamm

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The Maltese Cross follows the inimitable life of a famed motion picture engineer and shows audiences what happens after an immigrant has achieved their so-called American Dream. All While passing the torch to a hopeful new generation.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Co-Director/Producer: Maya Neumeier
Co-Director: Edward Herrera

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Through multiple testimonials, The Naked Gardener showcases sexual misconduct and non-profit mismanagement perpetrated at the Pepperfield Project. This film provides a platform for silenced voices and catalyzes individual and organizational accountability towards a cauterized end to patterns of injustice.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Editor: Ian Carstens
Composer: Jaci Wilkinson

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In an all-Black world where power is the ultimate currency, everyone in Erika is after their share—and then some—but hidden motives, a media conspiracy, and a government takeover threaten to change the face and culture of their nation forever.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Executive Producer: LaQuin Alexander
Executive Producer/Showrunner: Jovel Roystan
Producer: Arneece Maynard
Producer: Hutt Nassar
Cinematographer: Kevin Spence

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The remains of the Hiroshima Dome stands as a symbol of the devastating humanitarian impact of the nuclear bomb. The Nuclear World Project’s goal with the production of the third documentary entitled In Search of Resolution is a continuing exploration into the future, not to predict what will happen, rather to profile individuals and organizations finding new ways to move the world away from the dangers of the most destructive weapon ever invented.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Robert E. Frye

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The image of this shadow on the steps of Sumitomo Bank in Hiroshima was created by the atomic blast from Little Boy, the first atomic bomb ever used, on August 6, 1945. Just seconds before, there was a living person standing there waiting for the bank to open. This image came to be known as “Human Shadow Etched in Stone” caused by the intense heat rays created by the bomb blast.

Director/Producer: Robert E. Frye

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A Nigerian-born musician is invited to join a chart-topping hip hop group reeling from the unexpected death of their frontman—unaware he's being tested as a replacement, and that someone may be hiding the truth about what really happened.

Writer/Director: Tola Omilana
Producer: Kate Hanson
Producer: Santi Naidoo

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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Actress: Megan Penn
Director/Writer: Paige Stark
Producer: Kira Vykhodtseva

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As Israel’s war on Gaza intensified, students and faculty across the US mobilized for justice in Palestine. Often mocked and accused of antisemitism, they defied escalating waves of repression and censorship. The film aims to embolden those who refuse to be silenced by this new era of McCarthyism

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Jan Haaken
Director: Jennifer Ruth
Producer: Marlene Eid
Associate Producer and Communications Coordinator: Kevin Foster
Editor: Jeff Harshman

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Decades after the death of his sister Jo, Rick is suddenly pulled into a quiet reckoning with her memory; confronting the guilt he’s carried and the healing he never believed he deserved.

Co-Writer/Director/Editor: David Dodson
Writer/Producer/Actor: Mele Black
Producer: Jasmin Please

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For wide-eyed Sydney, it’s a dream come true to marry her best friend in the Mormon temple. But for the closeted cherub-faced groom, Caleb, his life has never been more of a lie as he tries his best to please his wife on their virginal wedding night.

Writer/Director: Gregory Barnes
Producer: Alex Bendo, Lexi Preiser, Tyler Walker, Yumeng Han
Cinematographer: Fidel Ruiz Healy

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When one incident triggers a storm, we realize we are more connected than we think.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Mary-Lyn Chambers
Producer: Roxy Shih

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