La Clef Revival is a collective of activists, filmmakers and artists who have been fighting for the past 5 years to save a landmark, community-run cinema in the heart of Paris: La Clef.

Project type: Organization
"Commons" Expert: Eric Arrivé
French Screenwriter/Director: Céline Sciamma
Member of Cinema Nova (Brussels): Laurent Tenzer
Operator of Reflet Médicis (Paris): Jean-Marc Zekri

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Born into poverty in Panama, Cirilo McSween defies the systemic racism of Jim Crow America to pursue the American Dream. As an entrepreneur and civil rights activist, he battles prejudice and inequality to become a transformative figure in the histories of Panama and Chicago, inspiring generations across the Americas.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Justin O. Cooper

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A rogue teacher turned filmmaker sets out on a global investigation into the corporate dismantling of public education—uncovering how billionaires, far-right ideologues, and privatization zealots are sabotaging democracy by targeting institutions of learning.

Writer/Director/Producer: Joseph Erikson
Producers: Kurt Engfehr, BJ Maier

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A heartbroken woman stows away to her estranged lover's lake house where she becomes entangled with a teenage girl.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Lara Jean Gallagher
Producers: Davis Priestley, Aimee Lynn Barneburg

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After her father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, a straitlaced college transfer comes of age in the wild chaos of a legendary student commune. Her identity wavers when she volunteers as “virgin sacrifice” for her co-op’s black mass party and her “Friend of Christian Camp Past” witnesses.

Project type: Fiction Short
Creator/Writer/Lead: Zoë Smurr
Director: Jocelyn Cooper

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7-year-old Swetha, the child of Indian immigrants, is harassed at school by classmate Bobby and his henchmen for using coconut oil in her hair. Swetha's mother, Supriya, watches her daughter grow increasingly withdrawn and agrees to end the oiling to help her daughter assimilate. At the cost of her heritage, Swetha, finally free to be American, makes a friend only to learn that her and her classmates might not be as different as she thought.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Ayesha Agarwal
Producer: Madison Stewart
Producer: Kavin Kapoor

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Coerced: How the banks failed domestic violence survivors tells the story of the economic abuse domestic violence survivors face daily and the plight to pass NYS’s first coerced debt bill.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: blair doroshwalther
Animator: Kelly Gallagher

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On the Fourth of July, a rookie pyrotechnician assembles a ragtag team to transport a truckload of highly volatile, illegal fireworks down the Texas coast without getting caught or killed.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Co-Writer/Director: Drew Saplin
Co-Writer/Producer: Samantha Bennett
Producer: Morgan Pollitt, Francis Román, Via Bia

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A woman travels to a foggy coastal house to care for her estranged mother on the edge of death, and disturbing events begin to occur in her sleep.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Co-Writer: Sam Stone
Production Designer/Co-Writer: Sophie Weir
Producer: Paul Lee

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Empowered educators at Comanche Academy lead a transformative journey, healing their community from the traumas of Indian Boarding School and instilling a linguistic and cultural revival in this poignant documentary.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Producer: Kathryn Boyd Batstone
Director of Photography: Celine Layous

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The night before musician Buddy Kidd launches his comeback tour alongside his second born rockstar daughter, she slips into a diabetic coma, putting life and tour on hold, leaving the family to contend with grief, uncertainty, and the true meaning of a comeback.

Writer/Director/Producer/Actor: Kate Nowlin
Producer: Llewellyn Wells

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Companion of the Setting Sun, is a short hyperrealist documentary that explores the transformation of lake Xochimilco and survival of the Axolotl population. We are immersed into the daily lives of the chinamperos, examining the difficulties of maintaining their wetland farms while co-existing with the last remaining wild Axolotls.

Director: Isabela Zawistowska
Producer: Chamberlain Staub

Executive Producers: Amani King, Dalia Burde

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Trans and gender nonconforming performance artists reimagine the historic Compton's Cafeteria Riot based on testimonies from the legendary "Compton's queens."

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Director of Photography/Editor: Drew de Pinto
Producer: Azza Cohen
Consulting Producer: Susan Stryker
Consulting Producer: Victor Silverman
Director of Photography: Jes Gallegos
Performer: Beni "Ali" Avalos
Performer: Mia Díosdado
Performer: Manny Mendoza (aka Pretty Plz)
Performer: Tory Teasley
Performer: Matta Zheng (aka Oblong Oriental)

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A sheltered teenage girl begins cheating on her app-arranged boyfriend with her family’s robot. After they're caught, she must decide between running away with her new love or erasing his memory.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Producer/Writer: Joseph Picozzi
Producer: Beidi Wang
Producer: Connor Williams
Science Advisor: Seth Neel

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Connected is a multimedia experience comprised of a feature documentary film and an exhibition of large-scale photographic prints that reflect on peaceful protests: the documentary is a poetic documentation of various protests held in Pittsburgh intertwined with a participatory coming-of-age portrait of a Pittsburgh teen who has never participated in a protest; the exhibition consists of 40 framed images from peaceful protests held in Pittsburgh that are approximately 68 x 98” in size.

Writer/Producer/Director/Cinematographer/Photographer/Editor: Gregory Scott Williams, Jr.
Executive Producer: Germaine Shaw Williams, PhD, Seith Mann

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Exposing a painful, quintessentially American geography, Conscience Point unearths a deep clash of values between the Native American Shinnecock and their elite Hamptons neighbors, who have made sacred land their playground.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Treva Wurmfeld
Producer: Julianna Brannum

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Set in a rapidly evolving city of Trinidad where everyone aims to leave for somewhere else, lonely Trinidadian-Chinese girl Lisa encounters a Chinese exchange student Xialin who invites Lisa to participate in her research of creating a "behavioral clone". A platonic romance seeps into Lisa but their friendship is challenged by yet another long goodbye.

Director: Elenie Chung
Producer: Yi Meng

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Jack, a gay farm boy from Nebraska, finds anything but the promised land he envisioned when he visits a San Francisco gay club for the first time.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Eric Delehoy
Director of Photography: Jamie Goodwick
Script Supervisor: Bryan Tranel

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A Palestinian doctor’s nightly commute from Jericho to her home in Ramallah turns treacherous when her tire blows. Surrounded by wild animals on the desolate road, a stranger comes to her rescue but she soon realizes that he’s not the Good Samaritan he seems to be.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Said Zagha
Producer: Myriam Sassine
Co-Producer: Laura Jumel

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A nurse hits her bottom in a traumatic profession and an abusive alcoholic marriage. This low point quickly puts her in collision with a side of herself--she would never dare to meet.

Project type: Fiction Short
Project status: Pre-Production
Director/Writer/Producer: James McNinch
Creative Producer: John Henry Davis
Executive Producer: Jeffrey Lindsay Relf
Executive Producer: Mark Durkop
Executive Producer: Kittie Fahey
Director of Photography: Jason Lehel
 

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