When a couple arrives home with their newborn baby, all they want to do is sleep, rest, and bond with their little one; but their loud, and opinionated families show up uninvited and refuse to leave.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writers: Gabriela Garcia Medina, Vicki Syal
Director: Gabriela Garcia Medina
Producers: Gabriela Garcia Medina, Vicki Syal, April Chang

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The struggle of two codependent brothers deciding what to eat for dinner becomes a metaphor for larger life decisions when they stay the weekend in the vibrant chaos of LA’s Koreatown with the youngest’s willful girlfriend.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Editor: Brent Howard
Producer: Heather Brawley

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Project type: Fiction Feature
Executive Producer/Director: Akemi K. Tosto
Producers: Takumi Saitoh, Tyler Condon, Maho Morita

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Two elderly strangers in a nursing home find solace and heartbreak in an unexpected connection, as they navigate the fragile balance between love and loneliness in the twilight of their lives.

Director: Yaniv Rokah
Writer: Yechezkel-Zach Greenberger
Producer/Casting Director: Christine Sheaks
Executive Producer: Jerald J. Silverhardt

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In the most difficult season of her life, a tenacious Park Ranger discovers her inner strength as she navigates the overwhelming challenges of caring for her ailing daughter and aging mother, while embarking on a quest to save an iconic and resilient little tree from rising tides...before it's too late.

Writer/Director/Executive Producer: Deanna Gerstel Harris
Executive Producer: Mel Harris
Animation Director: Youngran Nho

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Cynthia, an impassioned disability activist, finds herself at a crossroads as her tireless advocacy remains largely overlooked. Struggling to stay afloat, she turns to her brothers with an uncomfortable proposition: to sell the family summer home, a relic of their departed parents.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Courtney Marsh
Producer: Jerry Franck
Executive Producer: Nic Novicki, Gill Holland

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Inside a run-down diner on pleasure moon Huvi, a romantic psychodrama plays out between two waitresses and an odd stranger who may not be of this world.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Sonja Kelly
Director of Photography: Andrés Solórzano
Editor: Michael Tang

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Douglas Wingate is a successful executive. When his young daughter falls mysteriously ill, desperate, Doug tracks his estranged father, Gerald. Down at his remote farm in Alaska. Gerald tells Doug he shouldn’t have come, not because he’s unwilling to help, but because he's facing a mysterious problem of his own. Something malevolent and invisible invades the farm when it gets very cold.

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When a high school counselor told him to quit his Black friends, Loannis Veliotes dropped out, took his drum set on the road, and became Johnny Otis–a decades long innovator and promoter of Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll. Calling himself “Black by persuasion,” Johnny Otis tore through taboos against white and Black musicians playing together and wrote dozens of R&B and rock hits along with books and articles promoting Black liberation.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: David Zeiger
Director/Producer: Mobolaji Olambiwonnu
Director of Photography: Jerry Henry
Director of Archival Research: Jayne Kennedy
Editor: Lindsay Mofford
Motion Graphics: Christopher Kirk

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Three athletes - Rachael, Akoray, and Joe - grew up sacrificing their bodies for their sport, not realizing they were sacrificing their bodies to eating disorders. Through their personal wins and losses, we learn how the fierce drive of these elite athletes contributes to a dangerous mental illness - and may be their key to recovery.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Project status: Production
Producer/Director: Chris Blunk
Executive Producer: Nancy Kerrigan

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A legendary coach and a talented team of outsiders transform the sleepy desert city of Tucson, Arizona into a crazed college basketball mecca.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Sean P. Malone
Director/Producer: Brad Malone
Producer: Isaiah Leslie
Producer: Mustan Dawood

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Following a sixteen-year exodus to San Francisco, and the untimely death of his partner, Jack returns home to rural Nebraska to care for his ailing grandmother, where he must face his grief while reconciling his past.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Project status: Production
Writer/Director/Producer :Eric Delehoy
Director of Photography:Bruce James Bales
Assistant Director : Marissa Vonn
Cast: Michael Ridley

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When a young girl is called upon in court as the sole witness in her father's sexual assault case, she must choose between telling the truth or protecting her family.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Mishal Mahmud
Producer: Nidhi Kulkarni
Producer: Aishy Vimal
Cinematographer: Kathryn Boyd-Batstone
Sound Recordist: Renia Akamatsu

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Blank Paige Films mixers foster a safe environment for women or female-identifying folk who work in the Hollywood entertainment industry to mingle, network, and have a blast with like-minded individuals. It's time to celebrate and empower each other in order to reach new heights!

Project type: Organization
Producer: Paige Blankenship

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Director/Producer: Sezen Kayhan
Producers: Beste Yamalıoğlu, Fabian Kling, Natalia Imaz
Editors: Rita Bakacs, Buğra Dedeoğlu
Animation Artist: İmge Özbilge

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A struggling screenwriter escapes to a remote AI-controlled cabin to finish her script, but as the machine begins rewriting her life, the only way out is to finish the story, before it finishes her.

Director: Gabriela Revilla Lugo
Co-Writer/Producer: Evelyn Angelica Martinez
Executive Producer: Alambic Production

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Facing the loss of her family’s historic Wyoming dude ranch, a determined single mom invites Willie Nelson to headline a Christmas fundraising show. As her plans unravel and all appears lost, she’s surprised to rediscover the real meaning of family, home, and Christmas.

Director: Jason Satterlund
Screenwriter/Lead Actress: Hannah Barefoot
Producer: Mark G. Mathis

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On her way to visit her sick father, an adrift young woman, Riley Varick, hits a deer on the road and is forced to confront and accept her actions as a prerequisite for her father’s inevitable demise.

Director/Writer: Ani Schroeter
Producer: Myriam Schroeter
Director of Photography: Alexander Dynan

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A Japanese American witch, trapped in 1942, must join forces with her grandfather to stop a world-threatening wizard, all while facing the horrors of a WWII incarceration camp.

Creator/Writer/Executive Producer: Mary Tamura
Director: Christine W. Chen
Producer: Temitope Oguntolu, Taylor Hampton

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After learning about the death of his mentor on Facebook, Yoshi walks 8,800 miles to connect with her family and friends. But along his journey Yoshi discovers the courage to look inward and rectify his own past.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Momo Lee Aoi

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