A manic youth pastor’s naked streak during a Sunday service thrusts church leadership into a PR crisis, relying on an agnostic intern to navigate the fallout.

Writer/Director/Producer: Erin Brown Thomas
Producer: Anna Baumgarten, Elle Shaw
Producer/Performer: Kristoffer Polaha
Executive Producer: Tara Hotchkis

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With unfettered access, The Body Politic follows Baltimore’s idealistic young mayor into office where he puts his personal and political future on the line to save his beloved city from chronic violence.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough
Producer: Dawne Langford

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When an incarcerated pregnant woman goes into labor, she must fight to stay connected to her baby in a system built to keep them apart.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Jahmil Eady
Producer: Selena Leoni
Producer: Reina Higashitani
Cinematographer: Gionatan Tecle
Editor: Zheyu Liang

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Director: Rob Mayes
Producer: Andrew Carlberg
Writer/Producer: Casey Baker

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Following an unspeakable loss, Christina Rhee tries to raise her son, Aiden, with her mother-in-law as he finishes his final year of high school. But when Aiden is unjustly expelled, Christina is compelled to send him to a reputable boarding school, only to later discover its sinister agenda.

Director/Co-Writer: Woo Ming Jin
Co-Writer / Producer: Gerry Kim
Producer: Alvaro R. Valente

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An intimate look into the astonishing bond, joyful spirits, and genetically-matched musical mastery of the Canote Twins.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer/Videographer/Editor: Larry Edelman
Associate Editor: Casey Edelman
Videographer: Mark Herlinger
Story Consultant: Joe Herrmann
Photographic and Graphic Specialists: Hilary Hart, Tom Collicott, John Gallagher

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One afternoon in Istanbul, a family disagrees whether or not to replace a grandmother's old chair.

Writer/Director/Editor: Chloé Aktaş
Producer: Deniz Akdeniz

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After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, a young Hasidic man experiences a nightmarish transformation that leads him right back to where he started. Over the course of one painful night, Efrayim Eisenstein will come to realize that it's much easier to shave your beard than to shed who you are.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Elazar Fine
Producer: Kale Davidoff
Producer: Jake Bridgman
Director of Photography: Nicholas Bupp
Editor: Danny Gianino

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Over a decade ago, a loving mother of three, Marisol Reina, crossed the Mexico-U.S. border to provide a better life for her family, today she moves back home in hopes to reconnect with the family she once had to leave behind.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer/Editor: Ericka de Alexander
Associate Producer/ Post Sound: Trisha Golec

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The Climate Scientists is a documentary series about the compelling work and heroic tactics of experts around the world during a pivotal time, as they try to stop the climate crisis from becoming a catastrophe.

Climate scientists have known for decades that our biosphere is in grave danger. They have warned us, but we haven't listened. Now as climate impacts intensify, we are relying on them to tell us what to do.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Holly Becker
Director/Producer: Carey McKenzie
Executive Producer: Brian Hill

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Following the murder/suicide of brothers River (15) and Jet (13) by their father Shan Collins, mother Kerrith McDowell, a nurse practitioner, confronts the many institutional failures within the mental health and law enforcement systems in Raleigh, North Carolina that cost her sons their lives even though she was uniquely positioned to seek help from within these failed systems.

Director/Producer: Trish Ward-Torres
Editor: Rachael Wax Taber

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A day at the beach turns sinister when ten-year-old Lana spies her father's violent interactions with a young woman..

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Mary Ann Anane
Producer: Nicole Palermo, Nneka Mbadugha

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A social media agency gets a new client; a corporation who wants to run for president.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Isabel Steuble-Johnson
Director: Amy H C Wilson
Co-Producer: Léa Barisset
Writer: Emily Carlton

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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Adam Guerino
Cinematographer: Matthew Lynn
Cast: Nicole Clifford

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Standup comedian Fred Le hears the stories of a diverse range of young overseas-born Vietnamese who made their way back to the land that their parents left following the end of the Vietnam War. The Empathizer explores identity and the impact of trauma among Việt Kiều who grew up a generation removed from tragic events of the past.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: Fred Le
Co-Director/Cinematographer: Bret Hamilton
Editor/Producer: Hak Lonh

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When a young girl hitchhiking is picked up by a middle-aged man, who ends up taking whom for a ride?

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Amanda Renee Knox
Producer: Lara Aslanian
Producer: Amanda Renee Knox
Writer: Mira Olsson
Cinematography: Nick Ramsey

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The story of a wildly eccentric 80-year old artist, who followed his creative calling and never looked back.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Ivan Cash
Executive Producer: Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody
Producer: Jake Ewald

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October 1992. A group of law students head to a remote home upstate where a girl disappeared two years earlier.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Jaclyn Bethany
Producer/Executive Producer: C.C. Kellogg
Producer/Executive Producer: Isabelle Chester
Director of Photography: Kenny Suleimanagich
Editor: Soojin Chung

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In a decaying industrial city, Saskia, a nocturnal scrap worker, discovers she is a ferryman for the dead when the echo of a murdered neighbor latches onto her.

Filmmaker: Joanny Causse

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A quarterly short film screening series for 805-area filmmakers.

805 Film Collective Founder: Soraya Simi
Program Producer: Kevin McDevitt
Third Autumn Creative Officer: Jadyn Chen

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