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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Simone is trying to co-parent with her ex. Art is trying to prove he's not still in love with her. Their families are wild, their boundaries are unclear, and their newborn is already judging them.

Writer/Director: Brandyn Johnson
Producer: Tyrin Bell-Sinkfield
Producer: Khari Johnson

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In this documentary short, songwriter and composer Diane Warren, jazz bassist John Clayton, and pianists Susie Cheng, and Starr Parodi share the stories of their beloved instruments lost in the 2025 Los Angeles wildfires. Through interviews, photos and animation, their instruments are brought back to life. In the process we discover healing through memory, music, and community.

DIRECTOR: : Laura Karpman
PRODUCER: Lorenza Muñoz
PRODUCER: Christina Kounelias

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

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Crazy Love is a Strangely Romantic Comedy that is a refreshing take on love, feminism, queer identity, chosen family, and acceptance.

Writer/Director: Paulina Knaak
Story Creator: Charlotte Meehan
Cinematographer: Katy Frame

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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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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 an unstable and obsessive filmmaker takes a job filming surgeries, he begins smuggling footage to complete his passion project, before spiraling into a darkly comedic descent into madness.

Writer: Dylan Skudlarek
Director: Sean Jacobson
Producer: Talia Shea Levin

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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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Days in the Dark: The Life of Vito Russo is a biographical film about the famed Gay Rights leader whose affinity for cinema sparked a life of writing, romance, and activism.

Director: Kenneth Lott
Writer: Terrence Cooper
Producer: Josh Folan
Executive Producer: Tim Pinckney

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