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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
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Atomic Bamboozle follows anti-nuclear activists, tribal leaders, scientists and attorneys as they draw lessons from the decades-long campaign to shut down the Trojan Nuclear Power plant in Oregon and extend those lessons into a new struggle to stop small modular nuclear reactors (SMRs) that are being aggressively promoted by the the Department of Energy and nuclear industry in response to the climate crisis.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Jan Haaken
Producer: Samantha Praus
Associate Producer: Cathy Sampson-Kruse
Associate Producer: Cathryn Chudy
Editor: Jeremiah Fueres
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Jordan, a queer and neurotic young man, has his life turned upside down following the sudden death of his beloved therapist. Unconvinced that her death is accidental, Jordan dives into a full-blown investigation to get to the bottom of her mysterious disappearance.
Writer/Director/Jordan: Nick Borenstein
Executive Producer/Ron: Dan Bucatinsky
Actor/Catharine: Judy Greer
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Based on a true story, Auschwitz Bagel is a short film that explores three sibling’s dynamic as they are forced to reckon with their father’s new sexuality and familial dysfunction at a particularly awkward time - their great aunt’s funeral.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Alex Silberberg
Executive Producer: L.E. Seydel
Cinematographer: Madison McKamey
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A female MMA fighter on the brink of self-destruction finds a lifeline in a court-ordered equine therapy program, leading her to confront her past and redefine her future.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Joseph Marconi
Producer: Lysette Urus
Producer/Actor: Maury Sterling
Associate Producer: Chance Housley
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An ostracized young gay man faces personal challenges when he returns to his rural Florida hometown to provide caregiving support for the family he left behind before they reach their breaking point.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Drew Lewis Brown
Executive Producer: Trey McIntyre
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When a young border patrol agent discovers a dying migrant in the Yuma desert, she’s forced to confront the brutal realities of her job. Backyard/Desert is a haunting exploration of morality, identity, and the invisible lines we draw between right and wrong, self and duty, and one another.
Co-Writer/Director/Producer: Ethan Felizzari-Castillo
Original Playwright/ Co-Writer: Nancy Irene Kelly
Executive Producer: Paul Zaentz
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A thirty-something preschool teacher discovers she was adopted and, desperate to belong, fights frantically to build a family of her own before her biological clock runs out.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Izzy Shill
Producer: Lysette Urus
Producer: Diana Irvine
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When a misanthropic hammer salesman accidentally steps on a rusty nail, he struggles to determine whether the world’s sudden and violent turn against him is real, or the result of the infection consuming his body and mind.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Oliver Bernsen
Writer: Henry Bernsen
Producer: Zoe Rosenberg