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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Elevating life through A Conscious Endeavor - hosts Birdie Scott and Amanda Van Patten interview experts in the wellness space about health, human potential, and connection.

Writer/Producer: Daphne Fischer

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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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Each year, Robert forces his family to rehearse his funeral, of which he is the writer, director and star. This year has reached a new level of absurdity, staged beneath a 200 foot-long painting of the Crucifixion and complete with hired mourners and scripted eulogies. As his physical state deteriorates under the weight of the production, his estranged wife shows up to give an unscripted eulogy while Robert listens, breathless, from inside his own casket.

Director/Producer: Matt Ippolito
Writer/Producer: Lauren Herstik
Lead Actor: Katie Marovitch

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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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When a beauty enhancement drug causes a zombie apocalypse in LA, Keesha and Toya debate whether or not they should fight to survive in a world that doesn't appreciate or respect Black women.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Rochée Jeffrey
Producer: Ebony Elaine Hardin
Producer: Takara Joseph
Cinematographer: Phillip Jackson

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When a closeted foot-fetishist loses both his husband and his longtime job as a shoe salesman, he plunges into hilariously awkward ‘foot longing’ dates and a wild Palm Springs adventure—only to discover that true acceptance (and love) can come from embracing every part of who he is.

Producer/Writer/Actor: Chris McNeany
Producer/Director: Stephen Koncelik
Producer/Actor: Greg Boaldin

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A lonesome clown in search of means, understanding and unconditional love joins the circus only to find themselves more lost than ever.

Project Type: Fiction Short
Co-Director/Writer: Silken Weinberg
Co-Director/Camera Operator: Angela Ricciardi
Executive Producers: Angela Ricciardi and Silken Weinberg
Producer: Riley Bradford
Director of Photography: Robert Nachman
Production Designer: Lieyah Dagan
Editor: Manoli Despines
Graphic Design: Chase Shewbridge
Original Score: Sasami Ashworth
Sound Design: Poppy Jean Crawford and Angela Ricciardi

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On Thanksgiving Day 2016, Becca, the family black-sheep, returns home expecting to be named the godmother to her new niece. She’s shocked to discover that her sister’s two gay best friends are the godfathers. As the night progresses, the family unit dissolves in real time as the nation’s unity dissolves in the background.

Writer/Director/Producer: Tristan Chandra
Director of Photography: Nkosi Roma
Casting Directors: Harriet Greenspan & Terry Berland

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A mother and son drive towards opposite sides of the Mexico-US border wall to reunite after decades apart.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Francisco Lopez
Producer/Writer: Mitchka Saberi
Producer: Gareth Kelly
Co-Producer: Joey Szalkiewicz
Director of Photography: Alex Gorman
Sound Mixer: Adam Cox

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