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 1920s Toronto, a doctor races to purify insulin, but his obsession with recognition threatens the dying boy who needs it./p>

Director: Jacob Piller
Producer: Maya Oster
Producer: Dhruvraj Singh Bhati
Cinematographer: Caileigh Gold

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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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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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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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Fed up with her isolation, a lonely woman makes a Craigslist post that brings together four strangers for a bizarre encounter with a side of pie.

Director: Isobel Obrecht
Producer: Ashe Villas Boas

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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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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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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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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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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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A queer young woman, René, returns home to Mexico as her beloved aunt lies suspended between life and death— drawing her into a spiritual limbo where love, grief, and letting go collide.

Writer/Director/Producer: Ericka de Alexander (She/They)
Producer: Tommy Santamaría
Executive Producer: Ashley Agren (She/Her)

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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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Byron, 18, is a freshman in college who lives his life vicariously through his beliefs in Jesus but learns quickly that the world doesn't share his same views.

Writer/Director/Producer/Executive Producer: Brandi A. Hughes
Executive Producer: Terencio L. Hughes
Executive Producer: Lauryn A. McClain

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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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