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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Public crying is a crime. Evelyn must transform her grief into gluttony to evade her father’s fate.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Katerina Hung
Executive Producer: Thomas Bang

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When a divorced middle-aged city bus driver crosses paths with a beautiful young trans wouldbe starlet, their attraction for each other becomes an unexpected lesson in rediscovery.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Jeffrey L Relf
Producer: James McNinch
Cinematographer: Andrés Garzas
Cast: Arisce Wanzer as Crystal
Cast: Trymaine Alfred as John Max

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When a young woman learns her long-term girlfriend may have a brother she’s never mentioned, she finds their idyllic hometown visit spiralling towards a haunting truth as increasingly concerning parts of her partner’s childhood reveal themselves.

Writer/Director/Editor: Destinee McCaster
Producer: Giovanna Trujillo, Gabby Fiszman
Cinematographer: Madeline Abiera

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In an on-going game of “Dare,” a Beverly Hills rich kid finds himself on the mean streets of LA with no i.d., no money and no memory. His lifeline - a homeless teenage girl masquerading as a boy for her own safety, her eight-year-old brother and a transvestite former Marine Medic, now a hooker. Dare is a first love, coming of age story about accepting responsibility and the meaning of family, friendship, love and tolerance.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Shea E. Butler
Editor: Susan Demskey-Horiuchi

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A young black woman navigates everything from f*ckboys to ghosting to thirst traps on her misadventures through the dating world of 2017.

Project type: Fiction Episodic
Writer/Producer: Tasha Henderson
Producer: Brett Takeshita

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Chelli Look, a leather bag artist, must reconcile the legacy of her sister, who was murdered 10 years prior, with the future of her career as a designer.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Sarah Blue Winslow & Jason Gerber
Editor: Meredith Mantik
Composer: Silas Hite

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Dead Horse Lake is a neo-noir crime thriller about a young cocktail waitress in love with a hit man who’s forced to walk a fine line when the hit man’s boss falls for her.

Writer/Director: Michael Graf
Producer: Sara Dahmen

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Haunted by anxieties he’s long ignored, a reserved Black man finds his psyche transformed into a twisted nightmare where his hidden fears take on a monstrous life, jeopardizing his relationship and his grip on reality.

Writer/ Director: Malachi Moore
Producers: Hae Ji Cho, Megan Darling, Kristen Semedo
Cinematographer: Brook Lee Karner

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When Penny's queer-platonic significant other Luke "ghosts" her after an inseparable 13-year-long relationship, she must find closure on her own.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer: Guilermo Diaz
Writer/Producer: Mallie McCown
Producer: Lindsey McGowen
Cinematographer: Rinny Wilson

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Two transgender men meet at the funeral of the esteemed captain of the Lavender League, a community bowling club for older lesbians. Grief and desire seep together as the death of a queer matriarch transforms a community left behind.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Editor: Lyle Kash
Producer/First AD: Ariel Mahler

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The story takes us into the colorful pop-culture world of these four 13-year old friends, back in the days when video games were still a novelty. Mimaw and her friends Paolo, Kachi and Gilligan go on a journey of self-discovery together as they play games and wrestle with new dilemmas - puppy love, circumcision and other horror stories.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Producer: Valerie Castillo Martinez
Director: Raya Martin
Cinematographer: Ante Cheng
Editor: Cyril Aris

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Four college kids with fracturing relationships take a camping trip to Southern Utah in order to escape an ecological disaster up North. Alone in the desert, they begin to suspect that their reality might not be as it seems and soon realize they’re being watched.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Matt Warren
Producer: Larissa Beck
Producer/1st AD: Josh Long
Producer/Locations: Aaron Nelson
Cinematographer: Matthew Rogers
Composer: Randall Taylor

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In a 19th-century Colombian convent, an earthquake leaves the mother superior grievously wounded. In the days that follow, her body succumbs to a mysterious affliction, while she is haunted by enigmatic and mystical visions.

Writer/Director: Fernando Iriarte
Lead Producer: Paola Pérez
Producers: Rodney Llaverías, Santiago Porras

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Maya accompanies her father to work on one of his usual Chinese fast-food delivery runs. However, this time, she worries her father may be in danger.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Amy B Tiong
Producer: Izzy Vasquez
Production Company: Digital Bodega

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The summer before Phoebe Lee leaves her home in Mississippi for college, she attempts to reconcile with her older brother.

Project type: Fiction Short
Project status: Development
Director: Jing Ai Ng
Producer: Sandra Tan
Director of Photography: Jan Riscbieth Córdoba

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Against the dynamic political landscape that marked the end of the Vietnam War, Inez Victor navigates between her role as the wife of U.S. Senator Harry Victor and her enduring romance with Jack Lovett, a CIA agent and alleged war profiteer.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Screenwriter/Producer: Carey McKenzie

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Dénouement is a melodrama focused on the mundane. Ned waits in a hotel suite combing through the detailed belongings of his boss Lara, as we discover not only are they having an affair, but tonight it’s coming to an end.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Brian Goodwin
Producer: Alex Jiang

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In 1920s Stockholm, an old Jewish baker with a mysterious past battles a young mobster for control of his beloved bakery—all in Yiddish.

Writer/Director: Ruben Levi
Producer: Zach Fineblum
Executive Producer: Malla Grapengiesser

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Traumatic Brain Injury survivor Derek Dabkoski enrolls in a dangerous and experimental stem cell surgery to hopefully repair the damaged area of his brain as he and his wife Nadia, who has lived in the US for 30 years without ever being granted a green card, expect the birth of their first child, a daughter named Carmen.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Derek Dabkoski
Co-Director/Producer: Ian McClellan
Cinematographer: Im Joong Kim

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