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One Billion people have a disability worldwide and are poorly represented in Film & Television. Our team aims to correct a hundred year old problem through financial incentive.
Producer: Grant Anderson
Singer: Wynonna Judd
Executive Producer: Brandon Sonnier
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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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Yosimar Reyes is a queer undocumented poet and a full-time caregiver, whose life takes an unexpected turn when his 89-year-old abuelita decides to self-deport.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Jimmy Goldblum
Producers: Gia Rigoli, Veronica Kompalic, Esteban Zuluaga, Justin Gonçalves
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Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Gabe S. Dunn
Producer: Melisa D. Monts
Cinematographer: Gabriel Carnick
Line Producer/UPM: Sara Soderquist
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After being separated from his incarcerated mother at birth, Tommy Franklin searches for her identity while uncovering deep ancestral bloodlines. As he gets closer to this life-altering truth, he must navigate his way through systems designed to keep him in the dark.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Tommy Franklin
Producer: Dawne Langford
Consulting Producer: Darcy McKinnon
Director of Photography: Zuri Obi
Composer and Sound Designer: Renee Copeland
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Suddenly unemployed, Eileen takes her podcast obsession to unhealthy levels as she struggles both to find a new job and take care of herself.
Writer/Creator: Jamison Bruce Anthony
Director: Nieves Garcia Perchin
Director Of Photography: Chase Shamlian
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Eliminating the Darkness, One Candle at a Time.
Project type: Organization
Director: Beverley Mitchell
Producer: Quinton Fredericks
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For nearly a decade, Montanans could participate in "Your Opinion, Please", a weekly public radio program that provided a platform for people to express their views live on-air. By juxtaposing audio clips from hundreds of episodes with contemporary footage of Montana, Your Opinion, Please will offer a compelling portrait of the program's impact, and the enduring importance of open communication.
Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer/Editor: Marshall Granger
Producer: Alana Waksman
Director of Photography: Lorin Granger
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Forced to leave the comfort of his middle class lifestyle at his father’s behest, twelve-year-old Ahmet is sent to an all-boys religious dormitory where he must navigate familial expectations, his religious obligations, and the childhood to which he so desperately clings.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer: Nehir Tuna
Producer: Tanay Abbasoglu
Producer: Dorothe Beinemeier
Co-Producer: Thierry Lenouvel
Cinematographer: Florent Herry
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In the wake of their mother’s death, two estranged sisters battle over the legacy of their family business—the last Taoist paper effigy shop in Southern California.
Writer/Director: Desdemona Chiang
Producer: Selena Leoni
Production Designer: Justine Ellen Chen
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A private detective takes a job, hoping for redemption, and finds herself in the midst of an ever-expanding world of corruption.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Bridget Stokes
Producer: Erin Owens, Katie Taylor