On the night of their wedding anniversary, a bohemian theatre actress and a beatnik inspired writer confront the strife of their relationship, dreams and the city they once loved.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Hassan Said
Producer: Masha Karpoukhina
Writer: Lourdes Figueroa
Cinematographer: Peggy Peralta

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Pearlette, Tammy and Terry are Three (Extra)Ordinary Women of color who collectively have overcome poverty, abuse, systemic racism, and political occupation. The film will explore their life stories and how the parallels between the Palestinian occupation and Jim Crow in the United States have equally disenfranchised people of color. Braving their biggest physical obstacle yet – climbing to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro– will show women of color can accomplish anything.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Cionin Lorenzo
Executive Producer: Pearlette J Ramos
Director of Photography: Nick Kalisz
Cinematographer: Steve Vanderheide

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An anthology film exploring contemporary Black existence across the diaspora: a collegiate football star scrambles to save his career after a devastating injury; a Ghanaian single mother desperately evades deportation after being unjustly fired from her job; the lead of an up-and-coming sitcom must decide between financial prosperity and fighting for better on-screen representation.

Director ("Red")/Executive Producer/Creator: Elijah Davis
Director ("Black"): Allison A. Waite
Director ("Black"): Tyler Ocasio Holmes

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An experimental long-form visual poem about a solo female traveler reflecting on the principles of human existence through a woman’s lens. Her fragmented memories are juxtaposed with natural imagery captured from Iceland and Africa. The two polar opposite locations visually represent the cognitive dissonance in us all.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/WriterProducer/Editor: Aimee Jennings

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He’s hot, British, and Jewish. And because of it, she’s tied up.

Writer/Director/Producer: Elana Rubin
Producer/Casting Director: Chip Kass
Producer/First AD: Elena Weinberg

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Desperate to rewrite his family’s legacy, a young physicist travels back in time to murder a wealthy landowner - putting the fabric of space and time at catastrophic risk.

Writer/Director: Xavier Ingram
Producer: Marlon Rubio Smith
Producer: Avery Gann

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To the Land follows three friends and their small organic farm located on the California Coast. Over the course of a year, Brisa Ranch faces challenges and setbacks that put not only their friendship and farm at risk, but the very land they call home.

To the Land is a cinema verité portrayal of the struggles and joys found on the land and the resilience of those who grow the food that feeds our country.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Katie Bancroft
Producer: Libby Hart

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An elderly couple’s deep bond is tested by the physical and emotional tolls of aging, leading them to find unexpected intimacy in the most awkward of moments.

Writer/Director: Drew Marquardt
Director of Photography: Ruben Plascencia
Editor: Jose Daniel

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In the tradition of Waiting For Sugarman and Finding Vivian Maier, Too Good To Last is a feature-length documentary that reveals the fascinating untold story of Terry Ork, the mystery man behind the first punk record label (Ork Records) and a movement that reshaped music and culture.

Producer/Director: Michael Grodner
Producer: Daniel Arcana
Producer: Kay O’Connell

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When a collaboration between two influencers unexpectedly turns romantic, Samantha Carr's perfect night takes a downturn, forcing her to navigate today’s toughest choice: what’s more important - love or Likes?

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Talia Light Rake

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They say Tragedy + Time = Comedy. In the aftermath of 9/11, humor remained America’s most vital tool against fear, anger, and pain. Too Soon is the twenty-year chronology of how comedy stopped completely, slowly regained its footing, and finally grew bigger and more powerful than ever, allowing all of us to unite and heal in the process.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Nick Scown
Producer: Julie Seabaugh

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A father and son in tornado country find themselves in parallel dreams, chasing the eye of a storm they fear holds a troubling family secret.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Producer: David Connor
Director: John Fairchild
Cinematographer: Matthew Shoichi Wilder

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A poet and a visual artist grapple to understand the world around them while practicing physical-distancing during the tumultuous year of 2020.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Alejandro Miranda Cruz
Producer: Noel Miranda
Cinematographer: Greg Hatton
Cast: Matthew Charles
Cast: Brooke Leland

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A chaotically-ambitious gay in South Florida ignores the warning of his friends and family who are all worried about him talking to his ex-fiancé again, but his lies to them only cover the toxic attachment he has to the love of his life.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer: Gerard Shaka
Director: Brook Karner
Producer: Ayana Jones
Associate Producer: Cieara Little
Director of Photography: Shari Petti

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When Timba, an overlooked and restless servant's rare ability to unlock magic in others is discovered, she must find the courage to do what she most fears: be vulnerable, lean on unlikely companions, and defy powerful people intent on exploiting her gift.

Writer/Director/Executive Producer: Tendayi Nyeke
Animation Director: Kaydee de Villiers
Producer: Mark G. Mathis

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1941 – Far away from the barbarity of the War, in Lebanon. Following a Sunday lunch that goes sour, Matile, mother of eleven, imposes her laws on both the General of the French Mandate and the Head of the Church, by shaking the established customs.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writers/Directors/Producers: Zarazir Brothers

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When a small-town bra factory worker joins his high school friend in a runaway plot, he is confronted with his own queerness.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Alex Jiang
Producer: Xinyu Zhao

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A restless young immigrant, working at an isolated Punjabi truckstop in the California desert, must decide whether she truly wants out.

Project type: Fiction Short
Project status: Development
Director: Molly Karna
Producer: Julia Elizabeth Evans
Co-Producer: Rob Rice
Associate Producer: Tanishq Babel
Cinematographer: Elisabetta "Fox" Piantoni

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As her faith community betrays the Jesus they taught her to love, an evangelical filmmaker reckons with the political identity she built her life on.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Kristen Irving
Producer: Julian Cautherley

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While we all carry our individual burdens, we don’t have to do so alone. TRUE. TALK. DOCS. bring awareness to those things we bury deep or hide from others (especially on social media), while highlighting those achievements that we feel more comfortable sharing.

Project type: Nonfiction Episodic
Director/Producer: Mary Gerretsen

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