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On the day of her friend’s engagement party, Angie, an Asian-American woman, unearths her chilling preference for white men. She finds herself trapped by her friends’ equally shared preference and by her inability to escape her own attraction.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Co-Writer: Alisha Bhowmik
Co-Writer/Producer: Amanda Centeno
Producer: Yuki M. Ledbetter
Consulting Producers: Maya Tanaka and Jalena Keane-Lee
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A woman hires a photographer to document her estranged family’s last day with their dying matriarch, but her sister is running late.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Lucy Gamades
Producer: Mike Ferlita
Director of Photography: Alexa Carroll
Line Producer: Ryan Leibowitz
Casting Director: Joshua Michael Payne
Sound Designer: Michael Spencer
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Suffering from a supernatural malady, a woman returns to her homeland and solicits her sister's help to find a cure, only to walk into a trap that reveals she’s not the only “sick” one.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Producer/Actor: Nomsa L Mlambo
Executive Producer: Tendayi Nyeke
Cinematographer: Bongani Mlambo
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A young woman chasing her dreams is pulled into the Pandora’s box of bipolar disorder and must define a new normal for herself.
Director: Karen SladeWriter/Producer: Amy Olson
Producer: Ged Dickersin
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A Wall Street wannabe is swept into the underbelly of New York after meeting a seductive drifter.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Liam Walsh
Producer: Nate Cohen, Kathryn Wright
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When an aging supermodel's (played by Claudia Suleweksi) appeal begins to dim, she visits a magical apothecary in hopes of revitalizing her appearance but quickly learns that beauty comes at a price.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Caroline Iaffaldano
Producer: Tallulah Dirnfeld
Talent/Executive Producer: Claudia Sulewski
Executive Producer: LE Seydel
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On the one year anniversary of her mother's death, a Haitian-American dancer claims her place in a long line of powerful women.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Lunise Cerin
Producer: Danielle Dougé
Co-Producer: Donovan Tolledo
Co-Producer: Love Soulèy
Co-Producer: Cameron Carr
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Vulva la Revolution uncovers the silent epidemic in women’s health, exposes the history of medical gaslighting, and the troubling gap in medical training on women’s bodies. Through the stories of a patient, a doctor, and a founder, we confront a stark reality: Women’s health is failing.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Meredith Yinger
Director/Producer: Dr. Maria Uloko
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Walk With Me follows my husband Charlie’s journey living with early onset Alzheimer’s. We see him as the father, the creative, the husband, the patient, and his authentic self, as he lives life with a diagnosis most people are afraid to talk about. Together, we will meet other women and men also trying to navigate their lives anew and we will explore the next frontier of brain research both in America and abroad.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Co-Director/Producer: Heidi Levitt
Cinematographer: Lisa Rinzler
Producer: Vanessa Perez
Producer/Lead Subject: Charlie Hess
Executive Producer: Alex Gibney
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After being uprooted from their isolated doomsday cult, two best friends are thrust into the modern world and forced to find sanctuary in Los Angeles.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Actor: Scarlett Bress
Writer/Actor: Olivia Singer
Director: Drew Denny
Producer: Isabella Dake
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A disillusioned millennial man bumps into an old classmate and meets his new wife - a disembodied head. Questioning his sanity, the man brings his girlfriend to dinner with the couple.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Directors: Christina Kelly Holmes
Producer: Roxanne Griffith
Cinematographer: Pip White
Production Designer: Esmé Cruz Jackson
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When 22 year-old Rae, a descendant of Holocaust survivors, is targeted by Neo-Nazis in Billings, Montana, her ancestors' trauma becomes real.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Alana Waksman
Executive Producer: Neda Armian
Producer: Jeri Rafter
Producer/Editor: Marshall Granger
Director of Photography: B. Rubén Mendoza
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When a group teenage outsiders find paintball and come together as a team in the late ‘90s, it sends shock waves through their sport, forever changing both the game and themselves.
Producers: Dan Napoli, Alex Fraige, Oliver Lang
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In 1960s California, an L.A. clinic opened its doors to offer conversion therapy to worried parents of LGBTQ children. Doctors wondered if identity was flexible, and designed a project to see if gender and sexuality were the results of nature or nurture. While seeking the truth in this story behind their own identities, two unlikely friends, come together to investigate the ongoing harm of conversion therapy shapes the lives of trans youth today.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Directors: Sé Sullivan & Mauro Sifuentes
Producers: Sé Sullivan & Mauro Sifuentes
Consulting Producer: Marc Smolowitz
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Rayelle Martin, a commercial cleaning woman in Gary, Indiana, stumbles into a new job cleaning the homes of several rich, suburban families. While working, she tells one small lie that spins out of control.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Anu Valia
Producers: Olivia Wingate, Miranda Kahn, Joy Jorgensen, Alex Bach, Zachary Spicer
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During a late night drug raid in a Triad gaming arcade, a young Indian cop desperate to prove himself to his Chinese superiors uncovers a personal connection to a suspect—forcing him to choose between duty and dishonor. Based on a true story.
Writer/Director/Actor: Amarik Singh Khosa
Producer: Lung Kwok Yiu
Actor (Sunny): ZAIN
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In a broken neighborhood on the outskirts of Dublin, a tween struggles with mental illness discovers a hidden world through a graffiti mural, where she transforms into her punk rock alter ego and learns to embrace her true self.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Cassidy Harrison
Co-Writer: Adam Prince
Producer: Carbonated Comet Productions
Animation Producer: Johnny Semerad
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Having spent months consoling her recently dumped best friend Sofia, Rudy, a twenty-nine-year-old pushover must tell hysterical Sofia that she’s moving in with her own boyfriend only to realize that maybe she’s making a huge mistake.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Portlynn Tagavi
Producer: Greg Schroeder
Cinematographer: TJ Thickett
Editor: Camilla Bartoli
Production Designer: Kelly Stark Reckert
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As we near the “Sixth Extinction” of our planet, the evidence is clear: the insect population faces global obliteration, and humanity needs to be prepared. Weeping Rocks is a documentary that focuses on the critical role small organisms play in our fragile ecosystem and the frontline workers who have quietly dedicated their lives to tracing, studying, and cultivating these often overlooked creatures. “Love them or loathe them, we humans cannot survive without insects.”
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Karlis Bergs
Producer: Jackii Chun
Cinematographer: Alexey Kurbatov
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When an emotionally distant older brother has to bail his younger troubled brother out of yet another arrest, the two are forced to confront the years of buried grief, resentment, and unspoken pain since their mother's death before it tears them apart for good.
Writer/Director: Oscar Rudecindo
Executive Producer: Alena Drake
Producer: Mason Greer