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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Seventeen-year-old Iranian-American Maryam feels invisible, trapped working in her mother’s Persian café while obsessing over a polished influencer who seems to embody everything she is not. After a humiliating encounter, Maryam embarks on a surreal beauty transformation using the ingredients of her culture, only to discover that reinventing herself comes at a cost. A darkly comic body-horror fable about assimilation, identity, and belonging.

Writer/Lead Actor: Mehra Marzabani
Director: Sahar Jahani
Director of Photography: Bongani Mlambo

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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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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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When she spends a weekend at a lake cabin with a friend she's known her whole life, seventeen-year-old Noa learns that trust has a texture - and it peels.

Writer/Director: Alex Jiang
Producers: Brian Goodwin, Maya Zaleski
Director of Photography: Leo Zhang

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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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