Better Than They Found It chronicles the history and revolution of the coaching profession in the modern NFL, celebrating the progress and envisioning the future through unprecedented interviews with influential coaches and Hall of Fame players.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Project status: Production
Director/Producer: Tarana Harris Mayes
Director of Photography: EJ Alvarez, Daniel Mogg

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A year after closing their flower shop, two women struggle to save their friendship at a cabin in the Ozarks, until they receive help from a mystical maintenance man, a benevolent ghost, and a wise pet rooster.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Co-Writer/Director/Actor: Rebecca Holopter
Co-Writer/Actor: Verity Butler
Producer:Martina Silcock
Director of Photography:Sarah Whelden

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Big Sky Country is an exploration of generational storytelling told through the music and legacy of Montana.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Christopher Murphy
Producer/Co-Directors of Photography: Bailey Salwey. Olivia Kimmel
Producers: Jeri Rafter, Chloe Nostrant, Wyatt Maw

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Set in Southern California in the late 1970s, Bind is a film about a teenage girl who tries to come to terms with her abusive father during a road trip to the desert.

Project type: Fiction Short
Project status: Production
Director/Writer: Inka Rusi
Producer: Sara Fenton
Director of Photography: Richard Van
Executive Producer: Nina Menkes
Co-Producer & First AD: Tanja Rusi

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A close friendship between two girls is eclipsed by an accidental poisoning at school. Based on a true story.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Karishma Dev Dube
Producer: Mary Evangelista
Cinematographer: Shreya Dev Dube

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Black Girl in the Woods chronicles Kisha Jarrett's journey as a fat Black woman with Lupus working to reclaim space in the outdoors alongside other unlikely enthusiasts. What started as a mission to thru-hike the Pacific Northwest Trail, becomes a story of discovery, finding joy, and defining one's relationship with nature.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Kisha Jarrett
Producer: Faith Briggs
Producer: Melissa Daniels
Producer: Lauren Lukow
Producer: Tracy Nguyen-Chung
Cinematographer/Editor: Ryan Miyamoto

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A seemingly pious Hasidic man living a secret double life misplaces his black hat one night which will cause his two separate lives to collide in a way he never imagined.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Sarah Smith
Writer/Producer: Phillip Guttmann

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In a rural village, a family eager to start a new life is forced to face their cultural identity, when the appearance of a mysterious tree coincides with their arrival in the village.

Director: Naishe Nyamubaya
Producer: Sue-Ellen Chitunya

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Hunted by soldiers after a military coup, Peru's First Lady must drive her very pregnant nanny to a hospital down a treacherous road in the Andes.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Carlos Graña
Producer: Tim Gagliardo
AEC: Director of Photography: Pablo Diez

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Blank Verse Films is an upstart film studio that produces poetry videos. All our videos are online for free on our Youtube channel.

Project type: Organization
Founder/Artistic Director: Mike Gioia
Co-Founder/Development Director: Ted Gioia

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Lao and regional filmmakers work closely with Blue Chair to produce a free biennial film festival and community screenings. We aim to see a diversity of Southeast Asian stories told well and shared with the world, all while lending critical support to the nascent Lao film industry.

Project type: Organization
Executive Director: Sean Chadwell
Programs Manager: Vone Liosakoun
Advisors: Donna Lednicky, Vannaphone “Kino” Sitthirath, Nicholas Simon

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Every year, the University of California Berkeley hosts one of the largest Bollywood Dance competitions in the nation: Bollywood Berkeley. After a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Bollywood Berkeley will follow a group of novice South Asian college students and competitive dancers as they attempt to pull off the return of this pinnacle cultural event.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Project status: Production
Director: Zoe Malhotra
Producer: Vince Johnson
Advisor: Julia Zak

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What do you do when you're seventeen, suicidal, and believe that the only thing the world has to offer you is violence and pain? You get in your car and drive across the United States to go see the Grateful Dead of course...at least, that's what you do if you're lucky. And without a doubt, I was very lucky.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Lonnie Frazier
Producer: Francisca Zapata
Editor: Elizabeth Kopetka

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Billy passionately welcomes his longtime boyfriend back home in a bittersweet showing of the desperate things we do to find intimacy.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Executive Producer: Adam Guerino
Producer/Composer: Aaron Benham
Director/Editor: C.J. Arellano
Cinematographers: Matt Lynn

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A young woman’s visit to an immersive play takes a dark turn when she is coerced into a depraved performance.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Keegan Pedersen
Producer: Pinar Binay, Graham Taylor, Matt Balcerek
Producer/Cast: Alex Felix, Michelle Mao

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In the early weeks postpartum, Rose finds herself unraveling as she struggles to breastfeed her newborn son, Miles. As her baby continues to lose weight, she is faced with an unconventional choice when her best friend Maddie offers to nurse her baby.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Jennifer Kushner
Producers: Sue-Ellen Chitunya

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Dreams come into conflict with obligations one hectic afternoon, for an immigrant attempting to change her trajectory in life.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Gustavo Martín Benites Gálvez
Producer: Maja Memišević
Producer: Tasnim Hindeyeh
Producer/Location Manager: Mark Leja
Cinematographer: Derek C. Fisher

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When 50-year-old Filipina immigrant travels to the Philippines for the first time since infancy, she immerses in her native culture and learns traditional dances to bring back to her Filipino community in Alaska, hoping to spark cultural engagement and identity amongst youth increasingly disconnected from their heritage.

Director/Producer: Rafael Bitanga
Producer: Lailanie Gadia
Editor: Diana Diroy

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Caught in the throes of a depressive fugue, young Lynn resorts to debauchery to find joy — only to discover that happiness is a much more complicated proposition.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Elegance Bratton
Director/Writer: Jovan James
Producer: Chester Algernal Gordon
Director of Photography: Zamarin Wahdat
Editor: Kristan Williams Sprague

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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Pratima Mani
Producer: Matthew Romanski
Director of Photography: Chris Violette
Casting: Betsy Fippinger

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