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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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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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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After Black nurse and physiotherapist Bessie Blount witnesses a wounded soldier struggling to regain basic independence after WWII, she decides to create a device that will allow him a simple pleasure: to eat alone. The only problem is...she’s never invented something before.

Writer/Director: Candace Mae
Producer: Sydney Sheren
Producer: Amirah Adem

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