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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When Lynda’s mother dies just because the color of her skin bars her from getting a life-saving blood transfusion, Lynda and her schoolmates risk their very lives on the frontlines of Dr. King’s movement – spending more time in Alabama’s jails than classrooms.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Gilda Ann Brasch
Executive Producer: Roberta Korus
Executive Producer: Autumn Udell

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After a man-made disaster decimates an evergreen island, a stranded 11-year-old girl must find the tenacity to leave behind her home with the help of an unlikely friend - the majestic Manta Ray.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Kateryna Kurganska Gorbanov
Producer: C. Craig Patterson
Producer: Don John

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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
Writer/Director/Producer: Silvano-Mari Robinson
Creative Director: Albert Vazquez

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Trapped in a prison of sugar cane, a man will do whatever it takes to cling to his past.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Ann Valdés
Producer: Via Bia
Director of Photography: Terra Gutmann-Gonzalez

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Eva rebels against her uptight Asian American parents by getting engaged to a White, hippie boy, but when she accidentally shoots him dead during a family hunting trip, mom, dad and daughter have to sort through their own dysfunctional dynamics to figure out who’s taking the blame or getting rid of the body.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Zao Wang
Co-Writer: Tom Toro
Co-Writer: Carmiel Banasky
Producer: Joyce Liu-Countryman
Producer: Louise Barretto
Executive Producer: Margaret Cho
Director of Photography: Brian Nguyen
Production Designer: Emma Koh
Editor: Shannon C. Griffin
Costume Designer: Ashley Medina
Cast: Margaret Cho as June

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From Kit Williamson, creator of the Emmy-winning series EastSiders on Netflix, Unconventional follows eccentric, queer siblings Noah and Margot Guillory and their significant others Daniel Charles and Eliza Slate, as they try to start an unconventional family while navigating their thirties, try to stay sane in an unstable world and, most importantly, try to hold onto the bonds they share.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Actor/Executive Producer: Kit Williamson
Executive Producer/Director/Actor: Miranda Bailey
Director/Writer/Producer/Actor: James Bland
Executive Producer: Christopher Miller, Jason Beck, H Shen, Erwin More, Edward Ruttenberg, Larissa James

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When artist Tony Concep joins forces with collectors Bill and Michelle Lerach to repatriate African artifacts and launch a mobile museum, their mission becomes a direct challenge to cultural erasure, using history itself as a weapon against authoritarian attempts to rewrite the past.

Director/Producer: Brett Hoffman
Cast: Tarek Albaba
Cast: Chris Patterson

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Priyanka Agrawal is a politically active and foul mouthed Indian American college student. After her mother tragically dies, she is forced to go to India to scatter her ashes, and in the process, finds a new sense of self.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Urvashi Pathania
Producer: Ayesha Nadarajah
Cinematographer: Vanon Li
Editor: Pratyush Dubey

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On the verge of his Bar Mitzvah, Simon's recurring nightmares about dropping the Torah threaten to derail his big day.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Yale Fried
Producer/Director of Photography: Isaak Popkin
Producer: Chris Dooly, Liv Boren

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In a desolate, dangerous world, a young man must decide whether or not to trust the stranger he encounters in an abandoned house.

Director/Writer/ Producer: Zachary Thorpe
Producer: Andrés Correa

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In 1963, a white civil rights activist is murdered while on a Freedom Walk to deliver a letter to the governor of Mississippi. Within a week, a diverse group of Freedom Walkers attempts to complete the walk and are arrested. Forty-five years later, a woman commits to walk the same path and ensure the letter is finally delivered, alongside the surviving Freedom Walkers.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Writer: Laura Cross

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Before Jeremy Lin and Yao Ming, there was Eun Jung Lee. EJ Lee, a Louisiana legend nicknamed the “Korean Magic Johnson of NCAA women’s basketball,” has been overlooked her entire career. But finally, at the age of 60, EJ receives her first opportunity to become a college head coach and lead an underdog team in West Texas.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Jason Rhee
Producer: Razi Jafri
Producer/Editor: Zoe Sua Cho
Co-Producer: Cindy Martin
Executive Producer: Brenda Robinson

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Glen Penfield’s inspiring true story brings us hope to unite scientific and religious explanations of the universe. In an Indiana Jones like detective adventure, Glen who is both a geologist and a man of faith discovers the end of the dinosaurs and origin of human life on earth.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Producer: James Guyer, Colin Bates, Santiago Garcia Galvin
Director: Gabriela Tagliavini

Writer: Kevin Bernhardt
Legal & Sales: George Rush

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On a remote island along the Taku River in Southeast Alaska, young men escape their painful childhoods to conserve one of the most integral species in our ecosystem: the wild salmon.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Co-Director: Natalie Berger, Moira Fett
Producer: Martha Gregory, Sean Weiner
Story Consultant: Logan O'Shea

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Facing social and political instability in the US, and also in some of their home countries, four foreign university students from four different countries struggle internally and externally with their own versions of the American Dream as they pursue their degrees in Utah—can they forge a life here?

Project Type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Ya-Chi Yang
Producer: Mengxu Pan
Writer: Sonia Albert-Sobrino
Co-producer: Miriam Albert-Sobrino
Editor: Stan Clawson

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