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Teen foster sisters Lulu and Sam run away to LA, chasing a TikTok modeling opportunity – and are thrust into a collision between homelessness and the world of influencers, uncovering the power of human connection and the failures of modern systems.
Director: Nitzan Levinson
Producer: Atit Shah
Cinematographer: Eythan Maidhof
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Maxene Andrews, of the famed musical trio “The Andrews Sisters”, lived parallel lives. In the eyes of the American public, she was a beloved icon of 1940s patriotism. In private, she had many secrets that would have shocked America and destroyed the sisters’ careers and legacy.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Directors/Producers: Amanda Spain & Sandra Alvarez
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If she stays awake, she unravels; if she sleeps, the hag returns. Escape means facing the faceless demon that follows her — or becoming it.
Writer/Director/Executive Producer : Gabby Beans
Producer: Atticus Orsborn
Cinematographer: Kermide Luc
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A mom fed up with the abuse and systemic failure women endure starts a vigilante hit squad to punish those who harm them. Chaos erupts, justice gets messy, but she’s determined to tip the scales—one meltdown at a time.
Director/Producer/Writer: Casey DeStefano
Writer: Johanna Stein
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After a designer embryo fails to implant, a woman is lured to a remote organic farm for an unusual pregnancy arrangement. But when her body starts transforming in animalistic ways, she learns her hosts are hiding a secret that forces her to choose between motherhood and survival.
Writer/Director: Sahra Bhimji
Producer: Jeff Allard
Producer: Ipsheeta Furtado
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A Bay Area transplant fights to survive in a Los Angeles high school where announcements often signal tragic farewells, caught between gang violence and forbidden attraction.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: D’Angelo “D’Lo” Louis
Producer: Jamari Perry, David Hunter, Jr
Executive Producer: Yhá Mourhia Wright, Michelle A. Daniel
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Desperate for some company, a delirious new mother tumbles into a magnetic friendship with her estranged aunt – an eccentric recluse with even more demands than her baby.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Nora Fiffer
Lead Cast/Executive Producer: Lauren Lapkus
Featured Cast/Executive Producer: Carrie Coon
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Set in 1993, a New York City drag queen suffers from AIDS as she mourns the loss of her soulmate, both by reliving past traumas and conquering current ones.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Cameron Kostopoulos
Writer: Gerardo Garcia
Producer: Valerie Tan
Producer: Alex Jiang
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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
Director/Producer: Marco Palou
Producers: Tobias Lerman Matonte
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In 2026 Montana, two brothers, fragmented by a past shared love, navigate trauma, betrayal and a fatal prognosis as they come together on a road trip in a decrepit ice cream truck to make it in time for their nephew's birth.
Writer/Director: Chae Talley
Producer: Auggie Mares
Cinematographer: Jon Pham
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An aimless loner claims to have the psychic ability to find serial killers, but suspicions rise when she happens to brutally murder them every time.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Morgen A. Whiteman
Producer: Aliya Brooks
Director of Photography: Liz Charky
Editor: Jazmin Jamias
Composer: Evo Jackson
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A talented young chef struggles to grow her confidence during an intense service at a once legendary restaurant at risk of losing its coveted Michelin star.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Frank Frascella
Producer: Annie Huang
Co-Producer: Neale Brown
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Are We Cool is a coming-of-age, coming-out, political punk rock, intelligent, authentic, romantic, and entertaining high school hangout movie set in 1994 Portland, Oregon, at a small alternative experimental high school where the students make the rules and weird is the norm.
Writer/Director/Editor: Aaron Katz
Producer: Kyle Eaton
Composer: Keegan Dewitt
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A man takes his wife on a trip down memory lane if only to share a few moments of lucidity in her battle with Alzheimer’s, showing how love can transcend time and tribulations.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer: Laura Walker
Director: John Lazear
Producer: Leilani Turner
Lead Actor: Sally Struthers
Lead Actor: Joe Estevez
Casting Director: Lisa Zambetti
Gaffer: Dwight Campbell
Grip/Lighting: Eamon Shannon
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A Persian tale set in the dead of winter about a 11-year-old girl who discovers the underground, illegal ballet group of post-Islamic revolution Tehran and rewrites her own destiny.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Sophia Kiapos
Producer: Beth Hubbard
Executive Producer: Chelsea Winstanley
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After a sexual encounter turns harrowing, a young woman in New York City learns how to stand her ground.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Federica Belletti
Producer: Nina Cochran
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Asharu, a queer performer, lost custody of his only daughter after his wife committed suicide…he desires to reunite with his daughter one day.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Buddhadeb Barman
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When Ray, a 40-year-old gay Chicano, returns home after serving a 20-year prison term, he must learn to navigate familial and emotional terrains he hardly recognizes, eventually leading to a cathartic encounter with Leo, the high school friend with whom he had a closeted relationship.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Miguel Angel Caballero
Writer/Lead Actor: Luis Antonio Aldana
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Ashland is a feature length documentary about a diverse group of young people living on the plains of Eastern Montana. Their hopes and dreams for the future laid bare in a wild landscape full of history and mystery where the past still dances with the present.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Wyatt Maw
Co-Producer/Editor: James Carson
Cinematographer: Hatti Beanland
Executive Producer: Julian Cautherley
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Maro, a resilient young Mayan woman, navigates the stunning landscapes of Lake Atitlán, confronting the urgent reality of its decline and the threats it poses to her community’s future.
Director: Jasper Soloff
Producer: Sarah Sutton
Cinematographer: Alberto Mojica