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A young and untested fencing coach must set aside her demons long enough to lead her teenaged protégé to the life she never had.
Director/Writer: Adam LapalloProducer: Owen Palmiotti
Cinematographer: Emily Marquet
Cast: Michelle Principi, Simon Val
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Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Co-Director: Natalie Berger, Moira Fett
Producer: Martha Gregory, Sean Weiner
Story Consultant: Logan O'Shea
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Facing social and political instability in the US, and also in some of their home countries, four foreign university students from four different countries struggle internally and externally with their own versions of the American Dream as they pursue their degrees in Utah—can they forge a life here?
Project Type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Ya-Chi Yang
Producer: Mengxu Pan
Writer: Sonia Albert-Sobrino
Co-producer: Miriam Albert-Sobrino
Editor: Stan Clawson
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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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A competition drama about athletes vying for a gold medal in a little known equestrian sport. Vaulting combines gravity-defying gymnastics and dance - on horseback.
Director/Producer: Rebecca Stern
Producer: Max Peltz
Producer: Maxim Gertler-Jaffe
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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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Viv & Vivienne is a highly entertaining comedy-horror with twists, jump scares, and plenty of gore, but also a laser-focused social satire of latter-day Hollywood and the entrapments of modern fame and extreme fandom.
Writer/Director/: Bobcat Goldthwait
Cast: Pollyanna McIntosh
Cast: Natalie Palamides
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Through food and the rhythm of fasting and feasting, VLADIKA tells the story of a small-town Texas boy who became an Orthodox archbishop and made strangers family around his table.
Director: Josh David Jordan
Producer: Jessica Marie Jordan
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Vulva la Revolution (a film by Meredith Yinger + Dr. Maria Uloko) is a bold, investigative journey into the roots of medical sexism. Equal parts historical exposé, cultural analysis, and radical re-education, it unpacks how centuries of bias have created today’s epidemic of medical gaslighting—and introduces the patients, scientists, and visionaries creating new systems.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Meredith Yinger
Director/Producer: Dr. Maria Uloko
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Walk With Me In 2019, Charlie Hess — father, husband, graphic designer, and a man content in his life — was diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s. Over the next four years, his wife, acclaimed casting director Heidi Levitt, turns the camera on their marriage and family, capturing how love stretches, shifts, and endures as memory and cognitive abilities begin to change.
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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An insecure man desperate for love is horrified when, the morning of his first date, a small cyst instantly regrows--bigger, wronger, and in an entirely new location--every time he pops it. A silent body horror rom-com about insecurity, vulnerability, and love.
Writer/Director/Producer: Akil Rashad Anderson
Producer: Loni Rodgers
Cinematographer: Jay Swuen
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Paul feels anxious, hopeless, and disconnected. But what is his ailment?
Writer/Director: Joshua Yunis
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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