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Novelist Uncle Baby Benny and influencer @catlikesmoney cross paths at a vacation rental in Monterey, CA where they form a symbiotic bond in their shared pursuit for meaning in the weirdness of being a human on this planet.
Writer/Director/Producer: Benjamin Font
Producer/Co-Director: Noah Applebaum
Cat Limket: Cat Limket
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AHMAD ZAHIR explores the extraordinary life of Afghanistan’s most revered musician, the “Elvis of Afghanistan,” who rockets to stardom in the 60s and 70s – a time when women in Kabul wear mini-skirts, foreigners flock to Afghanistan on the “hippie trail,” and progressive change swept the country.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Shabnam Humphrey
Executive Producer: Sam French, Tom Freston
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Tough, but diva fabulous, Leo, aspiring drag superstar, is stuck working in a fish cannery in Alaska. He and his twin sister are trapped in the monotony of fist fights and fish guts. Out of necessity, Leo learned to fight back, which catches the attention of the local boxing coach. When a new boy moves to town and wants to be his sparring partner, Leo has to face the real reason he's stuck in Alaska.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Shaz Bennett
Producers: Diane Becker, Jean-Pierre Caner, Melanie Miller
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To prevent his oldest brother from drinking himself to death, Ronan Connolly must seek help from their estranged priest brother, leading to an unexpected family reunion with their long-lost sister, and a botched intervention.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer: Matt Aaron Krinsky
Screenwriter: Julianne Homokay
Director of Photography: Sam Krueger
Editor: Connor Linnerooth
Casting Director: Sarah Steiker
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A Palestinian couple finds hope and courage in the midst of relentless struggle as they face an extraordinary life decision that will change their family’s destiny.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Cherien Dabis
Producer: Thanassis Karathanos
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All We Carry follows one family’s extraordinary journey as they flee persecution in Honduras and endure months in US detention. Upon release, they are sponsored by a synagogue in Seattle and move into a borrowed home, all while they await their asylum verdict. Over three years, the family navigates countless life-altering and every-day moments where memory, joy, and grief collide.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Cady Voge
Producer: Laura Pilloni, Laura Tatham
Executive Producer: America Ferrera, Ryan Piers Williams, Michael Skolnik
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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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A young Joseph Smith, drunk on divine purpose and showmanship, attempts a resurrection in front of his followers. Risking everything in a single grotesque performance that blurs the line between prophet, conman, and madman.
Director: Conor Long
Producer: Eduardo Ayres Soares
Cinematographer: Sean Bagley
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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: John Cobb
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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