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Break-Down

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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Breasties

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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Breathe

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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Bridge Over Troubled Water

After a near death experience, a teenage religious skeptic ventures to see if he can find answers through religion.

Director: Lucas Cabanillas
Producer: Quinlan Donovan-Schager, Rob Goldman
Director of Photography: Joe Tafoya

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Bridging Our Stories

When the last Filipino community center in Ketchikan, Alaska, becomes just a memory, a 50-year-old Filipina who spent her life resisting her heritage travels to the Philippines to rediscover her roots, preserving her community's disappearing culture, and teaching indigenous Filipino dances.

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

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Buck

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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Bug
A woman attending her long-awaited green card interview is shocked to learn there’s an unsettling stipulation: she has to eat a bug.

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

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Burning Well

In a reimagining of the Prodigal Son story, on receiving news of his mother’s illness, a young man returns home to mend complicated relationships and rediscover what love and family really mean.

Writer/Director/Producer: MG Evangelista
Producer: Simone Ling
Producer : Wenting Deng Fisher

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Burnout

An ambitious assistant at a major sports management firm will do whatever it takes to win the approval of his nefarious boss... starting with setting himself on fire.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Russell Goldman
Producer: Comet Pictures
Producer: Michael Fry
Producer: Wendy Wang

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Burnt Orange

Ever have trouble paying your off your student loans? Dodged robo calls from your lender? Madison does her best to escape her reality only to be haunted with nightmares of her financial crisis.

Project type: Fiction Short
Project status: Post-Production
Director/Producer: Sharmila Ray

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Burros

A young Native girl discovers a Hispanic migrant her age who lost her dad in the middle of the dangerous but beautiful Sonoran desert.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Jefferson Stein
Producer: Liz Cardenas
Producer: Russell Sheaffer
Executive Producers: Bear Larry Wilson, Camillus Lopez

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By The Grape Of God

A disenchanted, older priest and his bright-eyed mentee embark on a quest for the perfect communion wine in a Napa Valley escapade turned full-on identity crisis.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Executive Producer: Kevin Hickey
Director: Comcille Donston
Producer/1st Assistant Director: Connor Jones
Executive Producer: Marisa Laurance, Sean Szatkowski

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BZRK

Anders' rage is on the precipice of taking control. Fearing he'll succumb to his violent visions, he seeks the help of an unorthodox psychiatrist, Dr. Wagner, whose meditation methods awaken a power within him.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Chandler Clarke
Producer: Soukaina Alaoui El Hassani
Director of Photography: Weston Walker
Art Director: Szabina Tutor

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Cafuné

Cafuné tells the story of Christine, an exotic dancer in an open marriage who discovers her fear of getting older while on a getaway with a lover.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Joanne Nguyen
Producer: Grace Hanna
Producer: Jamila Hache

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Calexico

A tough goodbye on the border.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Jingwen Felix Qiang
Producer: Brielle Yuke Li
Executive Producer: Jennie Lew Tugend
Director of Photography: Kadri Koop
Editor: Shicong Zhu

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Carlos Through The Tall Grass

A brilliant young man has doubts about going off to college when he realizes how much all the needy, felonious, desperate and deranged people in his dysfunctional world depend on him.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Rick Dominguez
Producer: Patti McCarthy
Co-Producer/Casting Director: Jennifer S. Holmes
Director of Photography/Associate Producer: David Hebrero
Cast - Carlos: Miguel Angel Garcia

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Cary in Retrograde

Down on his luck, a failed LA musician, Cary, begrudgingly accepts a songwriting gig for a viral country-rap sensation in a last-ditch effort to chase his dreams, reuniting his old band, and making amends along the way.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Co-Writer/Co-Director/Co-Producer: Phillip Yaw Domfeh
Co-Writer/Co-Director/Co-Producer: Priya Jane Domfeh

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Catalina

Three childhood best friends reunite for a camping trip on the island where they went every summer as children, throwing into stark relief how much their lives have diverged.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Tyler Rabinowitz
Writer/Actor: Sam Digiovanni
Producer: Jeremy Truong, Luca Piccin

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Cathedral, Florida

A young boy joins his girlfriend on vacation, but finds he is more drawn to her father, who is blind.

Writer/Director: Jacob LaMendola
Executive Producer: Abby Davis
Producer: David Duque Estrada, Jonathan Rosenblit, David Broad

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Chaim’s Not Dead
Two Jewish sisters must reconcile their clashing lifestyles on the day their father wakes up from a coma.

Writer/Director: Dylan Silver
Producer: Jennifer Apple
Producer: David Grove Churchill Viste
 

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