Opening night. Greenwich Village, New York. The year is 1821, before the abolition of slavery. Two theatre companies next door to each other put on a production of ‘Richard III’. However, there’s a difference between the two: One is a white theatre company, The Park Theatre, and the other, a Black theatre company, The African Company.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer/Writer: Kamilla Blanche
Executive Producer: Olga Garay English
Narrator: Clarke Peters
Music Supervisor/Composer: Gail Ann Dorsey
Historian: Margit Edwards

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Wisconsin, one of the most incarcerated states in America, abolished parole in 1998 changing the fate of 3,000 parole eligible inmates in its prison system overnight, sparking an inferno of activism and debate surrounding this population from the high offices of government to the streets of Milwaukee as the state grapples with solutions to curb its alarming rate of mass incarceration.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Keith McQuirter

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A military wife and mother struggling to balance all the pieces of her life breaks down when she realizes that the life she had planned for herself may not be possible.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Producer/Actor: Kay Barnes

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After Harrison starts to experience some insecurities in his relationship, he finds himself in an identity crisis trying to figure out what it means to be a man.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Producer: Kelley Kali
Producers Reggie Lochard, Eric K. Thomas

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Meet Africa’s game-changers: The innovators, educators and pioneers, reimagining and reshaping the continent’s future.

Project type: Documentary Series
Series Director/Creator: Bruce Donnelly
Producer: Fermin Rojas

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An uninvited guest and a famous painter reunite on the eve of an art opening. After years of estrangement can two former friends rekindle their friendship without collateral damage?

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director: Jennifer Berry
Producer: Mandi Reno
Director of Photography: Mike Berlucchi
Consulting Producer: Jane Charles

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After Antarctica is a feature-length documentary that follows polar explorer Will Steger’s life journey as an eyewitness to the greatest changes in the polar regions of our planet. Now, thirty years after his historic coast-to-coast expedition across the coldest continent on Earth, Steger is not only known for being the first in history to complete this historic feat – he is also the last.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Tasha Van Zandt
Producer: Sebastian Zeck

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Terminally-ill Annie and the two loves of her life - her partner Liam and their dog Whiskey - retreat to the mountains for what seems like a relaxing weekend away. In reality, it's their last weekend together.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Lizzie Germann
Writer/Producer: Kaitlyn Clare
Director of Photography: Laura Jansen
First Assistant Director: Liz Holland
Co-Executive Producer: Philip Anderson

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AHMAD ZAHIR explores the extraordinary life of Afghanistan’s most revered musician, the “Elvis of Afghanistan,” who rockets to stardom in the 60s and 70s – a time when women in Kabul wear mini-skirts, foreigners flock to Afghanistan on the “hippie trail,” and progressive change swept the country.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Shabnam Humphrey
Executive Producer: Sam French
Producer: Leslie Knott
Archival Researcher/Associate Producer: Hilmand Dehsabzi

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Tough, but diva fabulous, Leo, aspiring drag superstar, is stuck working in a fish cannery in Alaska. He and his twin sister are trapped in the monotony of fist fights and fish guts. Out of necessity, Leo learned to fight back, which catches the attention of the local boxing coach. When a new boy moves to town and wants to be his sparring partner, Leo has to face the real reason he's stuck in Alaska.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director: Shaz Bennett
Producers: Diane Becker, Jean-Pierre Caner, Melanie Miller

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Maxene Andrews, of the famed musical trio “The Andrews Sisters”, lived parallel lives. In the eyes of the American public, she was a beloved icon of 1940s patriotism. In private, she had many secrets that would have shocked America and destroyed the sisters’ careers and legacy.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Directors/Producers: Amanda Spain & Sandra Alvarez

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To prevent his oldest brother from drinking himself to death, Ronan Connolly must seek help from their estranged priest brother, leading to an unexpected family reunion with their long-lost sister, and a botched intervention.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Producer: Matt Aaron Krinsky
Screenwriter: Julianne Homokay
Director of Photography: Sam Krueger
Editor: Connor Linnerooth
Casting Director: Sarah Steiker

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Their lives are filled with struggle, triumph, bravery and courage. Experience the stories and songs of everyday heroes who are fighting for their dreams.

Project type: Documentary Series
Director/Producer/Cinematographer: David Rochkind

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Set in 1993, a New York City drag queen suffers from AIDS as she mourns the loss of her soulmate, both by reliving past traumas and conquering current ones.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Cameron Kostopoulos
Writer: Gerardo Garcia
Producer: Valerie Tan
Producer: Alex Jiang

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An aimless loner claims to have the psychic ability to find serial killers, but suspicions rise when she happens to brutally murder them every time.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Morgen A. Whiteman
Producer: Jamie Ohlsen
Producer: Aliya Brooks
Director of Photography: Liz Charky
Editor: Jazmin Jamias
Composer: Evo Jackson

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A Persian tale set in the dead of winter about a 11-year-old girl who discovers the underground, illegal ballet group of post-Islamic revolution Tehran and rewrites her own destiny.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Sophia Kiapos
Producer: Beth Hubbard
Executive Producer: Chelsea Winstanley

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Project type: Narrative Short
Writer: Laura Walker
Director: John Lazear
Producer: Leilani Turner
Lead Actor: Sally Struthers
Lead Actor: Joe Estevez
Casting Director: Lisa Zambetti
Gaffer: Dwight Campbell
Grip/Lighting: Eamon Shannon

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When Ray, a 40-year-old gay Chicano, returns home after serving a 20-year prison term, he must learn to navigate familial and emotional terrains he hardly recognizes, eventually leading to a cathartic encounter with Leo, the high school friend with whom he had a closeted relationship.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Miguel Angel Caballero
Writer/Lead Actor: Luis Antonio Aldana

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Children train horses during fire season on the plains of Eastern Montana.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Wyatt Maw
Producer: Julie Hook

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While searching for oil a geologist encounters never-before-seen results. He is alone in his belief — that he has found the giant impact crater created by the very asteroid that not only destroyed the dinosaurs, but also laid the foundation for mankind itself. In his struggle to bring this to the world, Glen learns that he has discovered far more. For him, the crater proves to be the very place where science meets God.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Producer: James Guyer
Writer: Kevin Bernhardt
Legal & Sales: George Rush
Line Producer: Jim Bigham

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A thirty-something preschool teacher discovers she was adopted and, desperate to belong, fights frantically to build a family of her own before her biological clock runs out.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director: Izzy Shill
Producer: Lysette Urus
Producer: Diana Irvine

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A man in search of a local lake monster finds the real answer he has been looking for.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Bruno Mattos Rubeiz
Producer: Samantha Lori Glass
Co-Producer: Angeline Dimambro
Co-Producer: Kristin Kohlmeyer
Co-Producer: Roger Glass
Cinematographer: Cailin Yatsko
Production Designer: Sydney Buchan
Post Production Supervisor: Soumya Singh

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Barrio Television is the untold story of a band of Puerto Rican filmmakers who refused to let the first all-Latino produced TV show in American history be canceled.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Christina DiPasquale
Cinematographer: Livia Perini Borraje
Associate Producer: Madison Cofield

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The Bears on Pine Ridge is a documentary film that follows heroic citizens on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, as they battle both a catastrophic youth suicide epidemic and a lawless non-Native border-town that is plaguing the reservation with alcohol addiction.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Noel Bass
Executive Producer: Sonny SkyHawk

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A shopping spree turns into an anxiety-ridden nightmare when a prepubescent Arab American girl struggles to tell her father that she wants a bra.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Kali Davis
Writer: Nadine Nonn
Cinematographer: Haley Min Young Kreofsky
Production Designer: Rebecca Muench

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A young boy takes on chores and small jobs around his neighborhood to raise money for a ticket to a magic show; but when his grandmother loses her job, he is faced with a difficult decision.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Gabriela Garcia Medina
Producer:Vicki Syal
Producer: Moana Sherill
Producer: Dylan Costa
Co-Writer/Production Designer: Joshua D. Sankar
Cinematographer: Bongani Mlambo
Choreographer: Reina Hidalgo
Editor: Dominique Pieb Espinosa
Cast: Terri Hoyos, Cheryl Umaña Bonilla

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A daughter's quest to redeem her father's dream deferred turns a decades-long media controversy on its head.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Project status: Production
Director/Producer: Tarana Mayes
Producer: Shannon Doyle Bell
Editor: Jeff Cooper
Cinematographer: EJ Alvarez
Story Producer: Teri Mitchell-Porter
Archivist: Adelin Gasana

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A year after closing their flower shop, two women struggle to save their friendship at a cabin in the Ozarks, until they receive help from a mystical maintenance man, a benevolent ghost, and a wise pet rooster.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Co-Writer/Director/Actor: Rebecca Holopter
Co-Writer/Actor: Verity Butler
Producer: Rachel Skidmore

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Set in Southern California in the late 1970s, Bind is a film about a teenage girl who tries to come to terms with her abusive father during a road trip to the desert.

Project type: Narrative Short
Project status: Production
Director/Writer: Inka Rusi
Producer: Sara Fenton
Director of Photography: Richard Van
Executive Producer: Nina Menkes
Co-Producer & First AD: Tanja Rusi

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A close friendship between two girls is eclipsed by an accidental poisoning at school. Based on a true story.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Karishma Dev Dube
Producer: Mary Evangelista
Cinematographer: Shreya Dev Dube

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When two filmmakers reconnect, post-injury, they embark on a journey to understand the world of concussions; exploring why traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are globally misunderstood and what happens when radical empathy and understanding the brain leads to healing.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Zoë Salnave
Producer: Lauren Lindberg
Producer: Jessica Butler

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Black Girl in the Woods chronicles Kisha Jarrett’s journey as a fat Black woman with Lupus working to reclaim space in the outdoors alongside other unlikely enthusiasts. What started as a mission to thru-hike the Pacific Northwest Trail, becomes a story of discovery, finding joy, and defining one’s relationship with nature.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Kisha Jarrett
Producer: Faith Briggs
Producer: Melissa Daniels
Producer: Lauren Lukow
Producer: Tracy Nguyen-Chung
Cinematographer/Editor: Ryan Miyamoto

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A seemingly pious Hasidic man living a secret double life misplaces his black hat one night which will cause his two separate lives to collide in a way he never imagined.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Sarah Smith
Writer/Producer: Phillip Guttmann

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Hunted by soldiers after a military coup, Peru’s First Lady must drive her very pregnant nanny to a hospital down a treacherous road in the Andes.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director: Carlos Graña
Producer: Tim Gagliardo
AEC: Director of Photography: Pablo Diez

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Blank Verse Films is an upstart film studio that produces poetry videos. All our videos are online for free on our Youtube channel.

Project type: Interactive Media Organization
Founder/Artistic Director: Mike Gioia
Co-Founder/Development Director: Ted Gioia

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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: Documentary Feature
Project status: Production
Director: Zoe Malhotra
Producer: Vince Johnson
Advisor: Julia Zak

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When an incarcerated pregnant woman goes into labor, she must fight to stay connected to her baby in a system built to keep them apart.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Jahmil Eady
Producer: Selena Leoni
Producer: Reina Higashitani
Cinematographer: Gionatan Tecle
Editor: Zheyu Liang

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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: Documentary Feature
Director: Lonnie Frazier
Producer: Francisca Zapata
Editor: Elizabeth Kopetka

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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: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Jennifer Kushner
Producers: Sue-Ellen Chitunya

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When an American veteran falls pregnant, doctors dismiss her debilitating health issues, until an Iraqi refugee and former midwife explains the horrific pregnancy health risks associated with her exposure to depleted uranium.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director: Sabine El Gemayel
Consulting Screenwriter: Laura Durkay
Producer: Jonathan Vanger
Executive Producer: Bahman Naraghi

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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: Narrative 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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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: Narrative 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: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Jefferson Stein
Producer: Liz Cardenas
Producer: Russell Sheaffer
Executive Producers: Bear Larry Wilson, Camillus Lopez

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Three homeless friends living on the street, are waiting for the bus that will take them to the city of Angels, where dreams can come true.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer/Executive Producer: Coxy Chiara Rodoni
Producer: Gaëlle Jaunay-Calendini
Cinematographer: Adam J. Hahn
Composer: Dónal Rafferty

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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: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Chandler Clarke
Producer: Soukaina Alaoui El Hassani
Director of Photography: Weston Walker
Art Director: Szabina Tutor

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The stories of individual Ukrainian refugees submerged in the chaos of and fleeing war are told in their own words. They, NGO staff, and private civilians, describe the challenges and successes to integrate into new cultures.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Writer/Producer: Daniel W Smith
Co-Director/Editor: Valentina Corrado
Co-Director/Cinematographer: Rodolfo Colombarra

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An intimate look into the astonishing bond, joyful spirits, and genetically-matched musical mastery of the Canote Twins.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer/Videographer/Editor: Larry Edelman
Associate Editor: Casey Edelman
Videographer: Mark Herlinger
Story Consultant: Joe Herrmann
Photographic and Graphic Specialists: Hilary Hart, Tom Collicott, John Gallagher

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A brilliant young man has doubts about going off to college when he realizes how much all the needy, felonious, desperate and deranged people in his dysfunctional world depend on him.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Rick Dominguez
Producer: Patti McCarthy
Co-Producer/Casting Director: Jennifer S. Holmes
Director of Photography/Associate Producer: David Hebrero
Cast - Carlos: Miguel Angel Garcia

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In New York City, queer and trans DJs and producers are creating a once-in-a-generation nightlife renaissance. They are challenging institutions, uplifting each other, and triumphing — starting at the rave.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Teddy Kentor
Additional Direction: Starr Sanford
Producer: Byrell Forrest “Byrell The Great”
Director of Photography: Bradley Credit
Lead Attorney: Fox Rothschild

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Three childhood best friends reunite for a camping trip on the island where they went every summer as children, throwing into stark relief how much their lives have diverged.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Tyler Rabinowitz
Writer/Actor: Sam Digiovanni
Producer: Jeremy Truong
Producer: Luca Piccin
Cinematographer: Oren Soffer
Casting Director: Freya Krasnow

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A 9-year-old Korean girl seeks to rebuild a sense of community and mend her broken heart, after moving to California without her father.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Kimberly Han
Producer: Diana Ward
Producer: Angela Wu
Producer: DJ Jiang
Director of Photography: Bongani Mlambo
Editor: Autumn Dea

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Basma, a drama therapist working in Jordan, is torn between two difficult choices: getting married to the man she loves or pursuing her dream of going back to her hometown of Gaza during the war.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Producer: Asma Bseiso

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After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, a young Hasidic man experiences a nightmarish transformation that leads him right back to where he started. Over the course of one painful night, Efrayim Eisenstein will come to realize that it's much easier to shave your beard than to shed who you are.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Elazar Fine
Producer: Kale Davidoff
Producer: Jake Bridgman
Director of Photography: Nicholas Bupp
Editor: Danny Gianino

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Over a decade ago, a loving and hardworking mother, Marisol Reina, crossed the Mexico-U.S. border, risking her life and turning into an invisible citizen in the land of dreams–– all to provide a better life for her family that was left behind.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Ericka de Alexander
Producer/ Director of Photography: Hannah Kelley
Associate Producer/ Post Sound: Trisha Golec

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A heartbroken woman stows away to her estranged lover's lake house where she becomes entangled with a teenage girl.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director: Lara Jean Gallagher
Producers: Davis Priestley, Aimee Lynn Barneburg

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The Climate Scientists is a documentary series about the compelling work and heroic tactics of experts around the world during a pivotal time, as they try to stop the climate crisis from becoming a catastrophe.

Climate scientists have known for decades that our biosphere is in grave danger. They have warned us, but we haven't listened. Now as climate impacts intensify, we are relying on them to tell us what to do.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Holly Becker
Director/Producer: Carey McKenzie
Executive Producer: Brian Hill

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On Christmas Eve, a teenage girl visiting her old-school grandma in Kentucky gets an unexpected lesson on how to show compassion for others during the holidays.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Julia Maddox
Producer: Mark Lamb
Cinematographer: Prabhat Gurung
Cast: Carol Niswonger

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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: Documentary 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: Narrative Short
Director/Producer/Writer: Joseph Picozzi
Producer: Beidi Wang
Producer: Connor Williams
Science Advisor: Seth Neel

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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: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Treva Wurmfeld
Producer: Julianna Brannum

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After her father’s Alzheimer’s diagnosis, a straitlaced college transfer comes of age in the wild chaos of a legendary student commune. Her identity wavers when she volunteers as “virgin sacrifice” for her co-op’s black mass party and her “Friend of Christian Camp Past” witnesses.

Project type: Narrative Short
Creator/Writer/Lead: Zoë Smurr
Director: Jocelyn Cooper

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A wild 24-hour first date entangles two quirky, broken individuals, each concealing a deep, dark secret.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director: Nicholas Pallos
Producers Andrea Monier, Talia Bella, Steven Step (EP)

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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: Narrative 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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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: Narrative 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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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: Web Series
Writer/Producer: Tasha Henderson
Producer: Brett Takeshita

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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: Narrative Feature
Director/Producer: Guilermo Diaz
Writer/Producer: Mallie McCown
Producer: Elizabeth Nick Eversman
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: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director/Editor: Lyle Kash
Producer/First AD: Ariel Mahler

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

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

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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: Documentary Feature
Director: Derek Dabkoski
Co-Director/Producer: Ian McClellan
Cinematographer: Im Joong Kim

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1979 - James Do, a drifter, finds himself in the mystical Sedona. He meets a young GURU and her devotees who opens his mind to a new path.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Sharmila Ray
Producer: Matt Keene Smith
Director of Photography: Kinsey

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After reconnecting with a woman from a past she prefers to forget, Brooklynn, a self-assured perfectionist, is torn between remaining true to her homophobic upbringing or expressing her stifled sexuality.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Aliya Brooks

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A young woman, haunted by a traumatic past, seeks out a controversial therapist who creates hyper-realistic scenarios for patients to live out their violent fantasies against abusers and those who have wronged them. But she’s carrying a secret even the doctor may not be ready for.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer: Patrick Andrew Jones
Director: Michelle Beck
Producer: Aisha Jordan
Producer: Rafael Jordan
Editor: James Donahue

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A social media agency gets a new client; a corporation who wants to run for president.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director: Isabel Steuble-Johnson
Director: Amy H C Wilson
Co-Producer: Léa Barisset
Writer: Emily Carlton

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Mia and her brother Alex find a powerful stone that thrusts them into different paths while bringing them closer then they've ever been.

Project type: Narrative Animated Short
Writer/Director: Fabian Molina
Producer: Ariel Mahler

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Two women struggle with self-knowledge as they desperately seek love and validation from men, who in turn can’t even love or validate themselves. Downstaged explores our culture’s intrinsic patterns of toxic masculinity, suppressed trauma, self-doubt, and internalized homophobia as some of the catalytic reasonings behind people’s motives.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Project status: Development
Director/Writer/Producer: Blake Nolan Brown
Producer/Writer/Actor: Ana-Julia Cavana
Producer: Renata Gheller
Director of Photography: Travers Jacobs

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Never before seen archival video reveals the untold story of an underground LGBTQ nightclub that became a political and creative center for a community besieged by AIDS and discrimination. As club owners Paul V. and Mr. Dan prepare for the Dragstrip 66 finale, patrons, staff, and celebrities reflect on their memories and impressions as the beloved nightclub comes to the end of its historic run.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Phil Scanlon
Co-director/Co-producer: Paul Vitagliano

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A POW aboard a roaming dieselpunk labor camp is cornered on his last day by a radical mycologist who claims to possess the secret to saving their war-ravaged world.

Project type: Narrative Short
Co-Writer/Co-Director: Benjamin Pierson
Co-Writer/Co-Director: Sascha Montgomery
Executive Producer: Salem Daniel
Line Producer: Brianna Fish
1st Assistant Director: Samuel Bear
Cinematographer: Daniel Kleen
 

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After being rescued by a charismatic vaquero on the streets of East LA, gay goth skater Santiago must put an end to closeted young love, leading to personal transformation and a newfound connection to familia.

A coming-of-age comedy with stylish edge, El Paisa bridges alternative Latinx subcultures to celebrate unifying notions of family, young love and Queer identity.
Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Daniel Eduvijes Carrera
Producer: Candi Guterres
Production Manager: Karla Legaspy
Director of Photography:Smokey Nelson
 

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El Tonto Por Cristo is the tale of an unlikely saint. A monk in a monastery on the coast of Texas embraces the life of a Holy Fool.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director: Josh David Jordan
Producer: Jessica Marie Jordan
Cinematographer: Chris Bourke
Composer: Michael Paraskevas
Lead Actor: Matthew Posey

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Before Jeremy Lin and Yao Ming, there was Eun Jung Lee. EJ Lee, a Louisiana legend nicknamed the “Korean Magic Johnson of NCAA women’s basketball,” has been overlooked her entire career. But finally, at the age of 60, EJ receives her first opportunity to become a college head coach and lead an underdog team in West Texas.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Jason Rhee
Producer: Razi Jafri
Producer/Editor: Zoe Sua Cho
Co-Producer: Cindy Martin
Executive Producer: Brenda Robinson

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Emerging Artists LA offers access to the film festival experience FREE to filmmakers and film aficionados alike. Submitting a film is free and attending the festival is free and that’s the way we’d like to keep it!

Project type: Film Festival
Curator/Program Director: Erica Mountain
Curator/Art Director: Carla Harris

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When a young girl hitchhiking is picked up by a middle-aged man, who ends up taking whom for a ride?

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Amanda Renee Knox
Producer: Lara Aslanian
Producer: Amanda Renee Knox
Writer: Mira Olsson
Cinematography: Nick Ramsey

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A Black high schooler prepares for senior picture day but insecurities and a tense friendship start to transform her into something abnormal.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Alexander Casimir
Writer: Mackenzie Chang Russell
Producers: Mackenzie Chang Russell & Lexi Notrica
Executive Producers: Lizzie Frankenthal & Jessica Carlson

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A young woman suffering from trauma-induced memory loss finds herself spiraling dangerously out of control as the impending anniversary of the event nears, threatening to destroy her carefully crafted veneer of normalcy, her relationships and even her life.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer, Director, Producer: Christina Hulen
Producer:Staci Witt
Producer: Kim Turner
Producer: Lisa Crnic
Cinematographer: Nacia Schreiner
Production Designer: Andrew Hammer
Cast: Charlotte Rothwell
Cast: McKenna Slone
Cast: Michelle Clunie
Cast: Chopper Bernet
Cast: Rick Otto

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Max, a high school senior, has led his younger cousins through childhood; but as the summer after graduation winds down, his cousins have one last chance to tie him down in Illinois, forcing max to decide what’s more important: his family or his future?

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Cole Bacani
Producer: Lily Norris
Producer: Norrie Palmer
Executive Producer: Jason Y. Lee
Cinematographer: Brian M. Tang

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After losing his sister to a stray bullet in a gang-related shooting, societal pressures from his environment of Compton, California push Jeremiah to respond.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: James Grisom
Producer: Letia Solomon
Co-Producer: Allison A. Waite
Co-Producer: LaDarius Torrey

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October 1992. A group of law students head to a remote home upstate where a girl disappeared two years earlier.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director: Jaclyn Bethany
Producer/Executive Producer: C.C. Kellogg
Producer/Executive Producer: Isabelle Chester
Director of Photography: Kenny Suleimanagich
Editor: Soojin Chung

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Reality and artificial reality blur when a young girl begins to suspect that her father isn't her real father, but rather a paid actor.

Project type: Narrative Short
Project status: Development
Writer/Director: Kelly Yu
Producer: Ally Cheng
Producer: Connor Williams
Virtual Production Supervisor: Nhan Le
Production Designer: Shi Min Yong
Director of Photography:Philips Shum

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A film about fashion’s impact on the environment and the designer who’s doing something about it, “Fashion Reimagined” follows Amy Powney of London brand Mother of Pearl who decides at the height of her career that she can no longer participate in her industry’s destructive cycle. Instead, she sets off to produce a sustainable collection from field to finished garment, a pioneering journey across three continents that tests her strength and belief in humanity.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Becky Hutner
Director of Photography/Editor: Daniel Goetz

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The arrival of a shaman scholar on a colonial estate in 1950s India - causes two part-tribal maidservants to transgress against their English Madame - dismantling the old structures and reclaiming their lost wild mystical powers.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Nihaarika Negi
Producer: Nancy Degnan
Producer: Tobias Reeuwijk
Executive Producer: Ron Yerxa
Executive Producer: Albert Berger
Co-Producer: Pale Rebel Productions

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Filmmakers First Fund is a Los Angeles-based film fund and studio space dedicated to artists with full-length narrative and documentary film projects in the early stages of development.

Project type: Organization
Founder: Martin Marquet
Founder: Rebecca Gang
Founder: Gale Harold

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A sweeping, epic documentary that plays like a thriller—part mystery, part travelogue, and part journey of discovery—Finding Fioretta is about the obsessive, multi-decade quest of a genealogist to find the 17th century gravestone of his oldest known ancestor, a woman who died in the 1600s in the Jewish ghetto of Venice, Italy.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Matthew Mishory
Producer: Bradford L. Schlei
Producer: Álvaro Fernández
Writer: Rob Levine

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In 1997 Two estranged sisters come together to drive their terminally ill mother across the country for her to end her life.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Kim Putman
Producer: Brooke Gaston

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A suburban firefighter’s labor union finds itself under a different kind of fire when the Village Mayor announces he’s privatizing their department to save money. What results is a five year long legal battle with the potential to change labor law for the entire country.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Colin C. Hughes
Producer: Caley Shannon
Executive Producer: Michael X. Flores
Cinematographer: Brendan Deane
Editor: JJ Evans

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Intrepid student filmmaker Thomas Reilly-King (affectionately known as TRK) will do anything to complete his first feature film, aptly titled Enduring Destiny. Searching for fame in a production spanning several years, the unflappable writer/director/actor calls in every favor and spends every last dime to realize his vision and bring his hero’s story to the big screen.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Project status: Post Production
Director/Producer: Curtis Matzke
Producer/Cinematographer: Ben Sherman

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Sardonic 28-year-old Jules has been sober for a year, but she can’t stop vomiting fish. Striving to put her life back on track, she must preserve control when a fish enthusiast unexpectedly enters her life.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Wendi Tang
Producer: Hongwei Wu
Producer: Philip Yuzhong Ge
Executive Producer: Rui Mo
Production Designer: Cyrum Aytana Ramirez

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A sports drama based on a true story, a coach and a group of eight boys from the Oregon School for the Deaf overcome tremendous odds and defy expectations to win the 1986 Oregon State Track and Field Championship.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Jevon Whetter
Producers: Delbert Whetter, John Eraklis

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When Franny starts a romantic relationship with a girl in her rural town, her newfound freedom and independence threatens to expose her family's dark secret.

Director: Sarah Nixon
Producer: Gracie Bellissimo
Cinematographer: Indeana Underhill
Executive Producer: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum

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One officer’s effort to change a community, one player at a time.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Jeffrey Williams
Producer/Cinematographer: Jon Cermin

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After vowing never to return, a young woman must come home for Christmas to save her father from trapping himself inside his few remaining memories.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: R Cadell Cook
Producer: Shandra L McDonald
Producer/Actress: Melan Perez

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A Black man seeks the assistance of a trademarking agency to prepare for his inevitable encounter with the police.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Antonio Harper
Writer/Director/Producer: Abby Burton

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A departed Ojibwe journeys to the afterlife, while a surviving relative finds resilience in the departed’s footsteps.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Alex Nystrom
Producer: Jeff Walker
Producer: Jeremy Charles
Producer: Lisa Normand
Producer: Rudy Jones
Cinematographer: Mike Maliwanag
Lead Actor: Benny Wayne Sully

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In this surrealistic tragicomedy, Joy, 35, visits an offbeat fertility clinic to freeze her eggs after a series of romantic misadventures…only to discover that she is pregnant.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Maya Albanese
Producer: Valerie Steinberg

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A shadow trail leads into a black hole, where a child disappears every 8 minutes. From The Shadows is a rocky journey through the Indian subcontinent’s most trafficked route, unveiling a sisterhood of survivors and stories of resilience.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Producer/Director/Screenwriter: Miriam Chandy Menacherry
DOP: Ranu Ghosh
Co-Producer: Aliya Furniturewala
Co-Producer: Sheena Matheiken
Co-Producer: Anand Ramayya
Co-Producer: Gary Byungseok KAM
Consulting Producer: Claire Aguilar
Consulting Producer: Alysa Nahmias
Consulting Producer: Nilotpal Majumdar
Impact Producer/Screenwriter: Triparna Banerjee
Impact Advisor: Rebecca Lichtenfeld
Impact Advisor: Ragnhild EK
Production Manager: Sharon D’Mello
Researcher: Nandini Dhar
Editor: Irene Dhar Mallik
Associate Editor: Anuja Thakar
Music: Parvathy Baul
Sound Designer: Mohammed Fibin

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After discovering a hidden figure beneath an important nineteenth-century painting, Monica, an art conservator, struggles to restore a potentially objectionable portrait.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Grace Philips
Producer: Kinder Labatt
Associate Producer: Shelby Philips
Director of Photography: Andreas Roalsvig

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A lonely programmer makes a startling discovery that upends her place in the universe.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Project status: Development
Writer/Director: Michael Reisinger
Producer: Adia Stark

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In a small town in Ecuador, teenager Diana runs away from an institution for troubled girls with her toddler. The goal: to pick up her younger sister from their abusive childhood home and start a new life.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director: Maria Abraham
Producer: Luz Agudelo Gipson

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A lonesome clown in search of means, understanding and unconditional love joins the circus only to find themselves more lost than ever.

Co-Director/Writer: Silken Weinberg
Co-Director/Camera Operator: Angela Ricciardi
Executive Producers: Angela Ricciardi and Silken Weinberg
Producer: Riley Bradford
Director of Photography: Robert Nachman
Production Designer: Lieyah Dagan
Editor: Manoli Despines
Graphic Design: Chase Shewbridge
Original Score: Sasami Ashworth
Sound Design: Poppy Jean Crawford and Angela Ricciardi

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A grief-stricken therapist determined to help a suicidal teen regains her faith in the process with the help of her Salsa instructor and pastor.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Jess Thomas
Writer/Producer: Anayancy Thomas

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A camera team follows a group of wannabe filmmakers who travel to shoot an apocalypse feature on a farm in Kentucky as they desperately eke out meaning in the time of COVID-19.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Actor/Writer: Izzy Shill
Producer/Actor: Felipe Dieppa
Producer/Actor: Diana Irvine
Editor: Drigan Lee
Actor: Geoff Marslett

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A mother and son drive towards opposite sides of the Mexico-US border wall to reunite after decades apart.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Francisco Lopez
Producer/Writer: Mitchka Saberi
Producer: Gareth Kelly
Co-Producer: Joey Szalkiewicz
Director of Photography: Alex Gorman
Sound Mixer: Adam Cox

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A border vigilante, at the US/Mexico border, detains immigrants crossing illegally. His world is torn apart when an undocumented man and his daughter break into his house.

Project type: Narrative Short
Project status: Post-Production
Director/Writer: Angelita Mendoza
Producer: Alicia Herder
Director of Photography: Victor Capiz

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Three Sinhalese women in their 30s and their families, unknown to each other, are crossed with one another’s lives by suicide bomb blasts done by Muslim extremists but the tracking down of their lives reveals an entirely different story about them and their connection to the bomb blasts.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director: Lanka Bandaranayake
Producer: Iranthi Abesinghe
Cinematographer: Chandana Jayasinghe
Editor: Nanda Nandi Jayakody
Makeup Artist: Narada Thotagamuwa

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The Syrian War has impacted the lives of millions,but the media around the crisis rests largely in the hands of those who view it from the outside. As a result, the narratives are theirs. The Hakawati (storyteller, Arabic) Project is a 2 month comprehensive filmmaking lab aiming to foster the creative expression and sharpen the filmmaking tools of those impacted by the Syrian crisis, and offer alternative narratives to the ones mainstream media amplifies.

Project type: Interactive
Co-Founder/Project Director: Sona Tatoyan
Co-Founder: Jennifer Robinson
Producer: Raffi Niziblian
Project Manager: Anna Kamay
Producer of Labs: Nare Mkrtyan
Consultant: Jennifer Kushner

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A Filipino sugar cane workers' strike in Hawai'i in 1924 becomes explosive, leading to the deaths of 16 strikers and four police deputies. A fog of fear and reprisals in its aftermath grips Filipinos, as surviving strikers are arrested, tried and many jailed or deported. The young Higher Wage Movement is crushed during this tumultuous beginnings of Hawaii's labor history. Suppressed for 95 years, this virtually a forgotten history must be told.

Project type: Documentary Short
Director/Exectuive Producer: Stephanie J. Castillo
Co-Executive Director: Randall Francisco
Producer/Lead Researcher: Christopher Ballesteros

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A wide-eyed art handler and a naïve young art student receive a surreal introduction to the absurdity of the fine art world while delivering a racially charged work of art.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Chester Vincent Toye
Executive Producer: Hank Willis Thomas
Producer: Anne Alexander
Executive Producer: Alexandra Pechman

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A bipolar girl breaks up with her psychiatrist.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Erica Cantor
Producer: Emma Flanders
Actor: Emma Raimi
Actor: Robin Roth
Director of Photography: Adam Birch

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Happy Sabbath is a story about a young man reconnecting with his estranged mother expecting a handout. In his search for financial support, he learns family secrets that can forever rock everything he knows to be true.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Producer: Brian Grigsby
Director: Steven Lloyd Bennett
Producer: Albert Lopez

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A humble virtuoso walks unwittingly towards death while traveling the world playing his last concerts, reflecting on his life musically, professionally, personally, and spiritually. Trumpet legend Roy Hargrove is celebrated through priceless footage of his final days and treasured memories from music industry legends.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Eliane Henri/Poplife Productions
Cinematographer: Robert Benavides

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Due to job losses in early 2020 caused by the pandemic, an African-American family of four is living out of their hatchback car until the next pay day arrives. The family dreams of just one night in a motel. But each passing day living out of their hatchback vehicle brings new setbacks that push that dream further and further out of reach.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Lynelle White
Producer: Kellianne Jordan
Producer: Anita M. Cal

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An anxious woman meets two men - one a scientist, one not - who work to ease her mind by supplying a unique embrace from their homemade robot.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Producer/Actor: Eric Rudnick
Actor: Kareem Ferguson
Robot Fabricator and Technician: Alan Timm
Robot Technician: Walter Martinez
Cinematographer: Davey Robertson
Art Director: Rebecca Scott
Production Sound Mixer: Ryan Graff
Producer: Cameron Fife
Producer at Large: Mike McNamara
Consulting Producer: Gabby Revilla Lugo
Script Consultant: Pilar Alessandra
AI Specialist: Sabri Sansoy
Robot InMoov Designer: Gael Langevin

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When a spiritual man is faced with a possible illness, his belief system is questioned and he’s forced to step into his authentic self in order to heal his emotional pain.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Sebastian LaCause
Producers: Roxanne Morrison, Jai Rodriguez

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Tyra Patterson is a mentor, a motivational speaker, a paralegal, and is just one of the many marginalized black women affected by mass incarceration. She spent 23 years of her life in prison for a murder she didn’t commit. Hers is an All-American Story, from the parts of America that our society has all but abandoned. Through her fight for freedom and exoneration, we weave a narrative of hope and redemption for young women impacted by the broken justice system.

Project type: Docuseries
Director/Producer/Director of Photography: Laurence Mathieu-Leger
Producer: Ebyan Bihi
Producer: Tyra Patterson
Executive Producer: Cathrine Gund
Executive Producer: Agnes Gund
Executive Producer: Sara Vance Waddell
Executive Producer: Michelle Vance Waddell
Executive Producer: Thalia Mavros
Editor: Rosella Tursi

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Shortly after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, a popular Jewish ice cream parlor owner, Ernst Cahn, finds himself targeted by the infamous "Butcher of Lyon," Klaus Barbie. As his world crumbles, The Ice Cream Man must choose between resistance and death...a choice that will reverberate throughout the country. Based on actual events.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Robert Moniot
Producer: Gregor Wilson
Visual Effects Supervisor: Todd Sheridan-Perry

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A modern day poet muses on how the AIDS crisis prepared him for Covid, and opened the gates of grief for healing. His own poetry found in an old notebook unearthed during Covid, brings the AIDS crisis to life, with all its sadness and fierce friendships. Political activism and art meet in this window into the past.

Project type: Documentary Short
Director/Producer: Annie O'Neil
Cinematographer: Samantha Isom
Editor: Will Allen

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A small crime creates ripple effects in a neighborhood that brings devastating consequences, pushing race relations further in reactionary fallout.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Chloe Owens
Producers: Tamara Rhoads, Markus Linecker

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A self-involved teen and her overworked, single mom come to a head with their differences as their mobile home is repossessed … with them inside of it.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Producer/Writer: Sharon Arteaga
Producer: Chelsea Hernandez
Producer: Sommer Garcia Saqr
Production Designer: Ashley Landavazo

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A gay spaghetti western about a group of vainglorious #instagays whose trip to Fire Island takes a dark turn when they accidentally murder their token friend of color.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Dhruv Sud
Producer: Clarissa Blau
Producer: A.C. Smallwood
Executive Producer: Max Emerson
Cinematographer: Vaughn Greve
Editor: Hazel McKibbin

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Marcus Belgrave made his reputation as a trumpet player with Ray Charles, Motown’s Funk Brothers, and Charlie Mingus. Yet when he had the opportunity to leave Detroit for larger opportunities, he stayed behind to become a teacher and community leader, sacrificing the limelight to ensure that the future of his art form was safe in the hands of the next generation.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Timashion Jones
Producer: Bradley Torreano
Director of Photography: Jeremy Brockman

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In a desertified landscape, on the brink of environmental catastrophe, a genderless being drifts into a society in crisis, whose troubles are all too easily pinned on the arrival of this “unknown”.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Anastasia Eleftheriou
Producer: Nathaniel Draper
Writer: Moritz Pfeifer

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In rural Spain, a tumultuous romance blossoms between a visiting American and a local soccer rival.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Tusk
Production Company: Tusk Creative & Japonica Films
Producer: Cookie Walukas
Producer: Gerard Rodríguez
Producer: Laura Fernández-Hormigo
Producer: Frank Lucas

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Like marionettes on a toy stage, the ghosts of Masao’s past haunt the countryside in this tale of a Hawai‘i family facing the imminent death of their eldest.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director: Christopher Yogi
Producers: Sarah Kim

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Follow Ugandan elders "jajas" as they share how climate change has turned their world upside down. Floods, droughts, storms - the once reliable seasonal patterns have turned to chaos. It is unlike anything the jajas have seen in their long lives, and it is undermining their ability to live off the land as they have for decades.

Project type: Documentary Short
Director: Summer Spell
Cinematographer: Alvin K Masagazi
Producer/Operations Manager: Rennie McVicker
Producer/Fundraising Manager: Chloe Vann

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Jimmy in Saigon explores the mysterious life and death of James Austin McDowell, a Vietnam veteran who died at age 24 in 1972 as a civilian in Saigon. Painting an elegiac portrait, director Peter McDowell uncovers family secrets surrounding Jim’s drug use and sexuality, getting to know his brother who died when Peter was only 5 years old.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Peter McDowell
Producer: Lucia Palmarini
Producer: Peter Schulman
Composer/Producer: John McDowell
Executive Producer: Dan Savage, George Guerra, Corey Tong

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Three kids from the hood find an alien spaceship and take it on a joyride. Now they must decide to help the world that never cared about them, or escape into the unknown.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Raymond Carr

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This #metoo / #timesup feature about an aspiring rock star fights a mental breakdown along the road to stardom while pursued by a dysfunctional romantic. Drawn together and torn apart through humor, heartache and hope, the two grapple with the healing power of friendship and the damage wrought by demons of childhood.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Sherrie Richman
Writer: Christopher Kawika Brown

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Meet Sharon and Sharon; two women on a mission to rescue hundreds of mistreated guinea pigs. From the UK, LA to Peru follow their humorous and heart-warming adventure as they also set out to discover the forgotten history of these curious creatures in the first major documentary about guinea pigs.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Sharon Walia

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Six women emerge from the shadows of the California cannabis industry to go legal. As farmers, entrepreneurs and activists, these modern-day superheroes battle government bureaucracy, corporate interests and risk financial ruin in order to fight for the industry they helped create and for the survival of their community.

Project type: Documentary
Director/Producer/Writer: Chris J. Russo
Consulting Producers: Sarah Olson, Stephen Israel
Producer: Michael J. Katz
Executive Producer: Shauna Harden
Cinematographer/Producer: Christian Bruno
Editor/Writer: Tamara Maloney

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Without power for six months following Hurricane Maria, and dependent upon importing materials from overseas for their public elementary school students, a small mountain community in Puerto Rico begins to transition towards autonomy by transforming an abandoned building next to the school into a solar-powered factory where they will build the items they once imported.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Gabriel Coss
Producer: Emma Crow-Willard

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Set in a remote forest where a fringe community keeps "the old ways" alive, a struggling mother is forced to bring her daughter to work in their ancient and taboo family business.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Lindsay Zibach
Producer: Sarah Ullman
Director of Photography: Sara Kinney
Production Designer: Madelyn Wilkime

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After 60 years of marriage Amir (87) and Lara (78) both of the Druze faith, get divorced following a foolish argument. According to Druze belief, they are forbidden to see or speak to one another until the day they die. Lara moves across the street with her son and family to start her life anew, while Amir stays at home to cope with his solitude.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Co-Director and Writer: Yaron Yarkoni
Producer: Baher Agrabiya
Co-Director and Writer: Liat Dahan Yarkoni
Co-Writer: Hamed Sharoof

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In a ballroom called Paradise, in the aftermath of World War II, a beguiling Hawaiian singer dances with a returned American soldier and debates the dignity of the American dream. But when his dance tickets run out, she is left with a harsh choice – for when the dancing stops, this man will die.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Brayden Yoder
Producer: Ciara Leinaʻala Lacy

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After making a suicide pact, Sunday and Gigi go on their last road trip together, leaving behind their failed careers and relationships. Sunday’s grip on reality slowly unravels, as her decision to renege on the pact haunts her every move.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director/Actress: Spade Robinson
Producer/Director of Photography: Ayana Baraka
Production Design: Vanessa Plazo Lazo
Costume Design: Whitney Kyles
Composer: Sherri Chung
Executive Producer: Angela Edmond

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A scrappy brown high schooler must fight her way to be Elle Woods when the lead of her school's production of Legally Blonde: The Musical gets seriously injured ten minutes before showtime.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Producer: Maya Vyas
Director: Kirsten Hoang
Producer: Alyssa Callahan
Associate Producer: Sari Arambulo
Associate Producer: Nicole McCullough
Associate Producer: Ruhi Mansey

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In the aftermath of their venerated father’s death, two brothers travel to Europe to learn about his childhood experiences during the Holocaust that shaped a man they never fully knew.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Michael Gil
Producer/Editor: Nicholas Manting Brewer
Producer: Emily Grandcolas
Director of Photography: Feixue Tang

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In a time of racial upheaval and a multitude of woes affecting marginalized communities, a young, African American filmmaker journeys to the heart of the Black experience to find the answer to a daunting question: Is the Black church dead?

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Rafiq J Nabali
Producer: Joe Howell
Producer: Mahalia Latortue
Producer: Nancy Howard

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When sisters Alex and Claire learn of their abuser’s death, they journey to a New Zealand settlement to witness his burial.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Aileen O'Sullivan
Writer/Producer: Mary Sewell

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Leveling Lincoln brings back to the forefront the first case in the Northern USA, where a school was torn down in the quest for equal rights in education. Mrs. Taylor vs. The Board of Education of New Rochelle, NY – 1961, was a landmark case brought by Lincoln School parents. Many still remember and speak on camera of this pivotal case, their childhood after the case, and how it relates to today’s educational struggles.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Arden Teresa Lewis
Producer/Assistant Director: Tinks Lovelace, Bag O' Bones Collective

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A gay Holocaust researcher struggles to convince his boyfriend’s grandfather, a Dachau liberator, to reveal his untold story of gay pink triangle survivors. By lifting their voices and the memories of a secretive Holocaust liberator, this film depicts the power of empathy and healing to crush hate.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Patrick Fritz
Producer: O'Shea" Myles
Producer: Kyle Wilson
Director of Photography: Jeff Caroli
Production Designer: Myra Barrera
Editor: Raymundo Archila

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A mother makes a shocking discovery when she’s left to pack up her daughter’s house after a tragic car accident.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Laguaria Davis
Producers: Valeria Lopez, Steak House

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A grandmother risks her own life to protect her granddaughter during a heat wave.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Ian Lyndon
Producer: Jonathan Biebl

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The desperate imagination of a child of war draws into his reality a new form of his arms, equipped with guns. But the figure steps into reality to transcends out of this darkness. By searching for something among the ruins of the war, he wants to shape a new form of his being.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer/Animator: Ahou Alagha
Character & Set Designer/Modeler: Ramin Parvin
Sound Designer: Hossein Mahdavi
Composer: Foad Ghahremani

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Little City Gardens is a nonfiction feature that presents the magnetism and beauty of a farm that existed in San Francisco. It’s a story about connections to land, place, and each other told through the poetic visuals of a working urban farm. It’s a moving portrait about the powerful and compassionate relationship between people and land found in the most unlikely of places.

Project type: Documentary Feature
DirectorProducer: Ben Grossman
Producer/Consultant: Caitlyn Galloway

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A homeless drummer boy, who romanticizes over a neighborhood girl, fights the path of a changing, gentrifying city in his attempt to show his affection.

Project type: Narrative Short
Project status: Development
Director/Writer/Producer: Ellis J. Sutton
Producer/Assistant Director: Tom Muhl
Director of Photography: Yorgos Tzoytzoyakos
Production Designer: Lizeth Salgado
Composer: Stevie Thompson

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A woman reflects on her past and wonders about her future - while she happens to be having an abortion. This is a story about a person apart from the procedure as captured during her in-clinic abortion, casually, vulnerably, and in real time.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Producer/Writer/Actor: Emily Goss
Actor: Laur Allen
Editor: Shayan Ebrahim

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Living Art follows the life of Mara Clawson, a brilliant visual artist battling a life-threatening genetic disease. As she prepares for the largest gallery show of her young career, Mara inspires everyone around her to help create a world full of love and kindness.

Project type: Documentary Short
Director/Writer/Producer: David Rochkind

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An aging blues musician, convinced his late wife is trapped in a song, believes she’s been kidnapped by a group of lo-fi hip-hop producers in Oakland.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Screenwriter: Ed Ntiri
Producer: Winnie Wong
Cinematographer: Melinda James
Music and Community Culture Consultant: Jason G. Ragonton
Advisor: Andre Torres

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A teenage ballerina who dreams of moving to New York enters into a dangerous romance with an older man who derails her plans.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Project status: Development
Writer/Director: Carly Hopkins
Producer: Robert Scott Wildes
Producer: Giulia di Stravola

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This is a film about a witch pretending to be a babysitter.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Donaldo Prescod
Producer: Rebecca Hamm

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It’s been six years since 18 year-old Lynn and her father Lionel were torn apart in a courthouse hallway. In the years since, Lynn has navigated her difficult relationship with her mother Mae by being the obedient, super-achieving daughter Mae needs, and delayed an inevitable reckoning with trauma and loss by suppressing her memories of the deep bond she and Lionel once shared.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Paula Puryear
Producer: Preston Holmes
Co-Producer: Tyrone Dixon
Cinematographer: Dennis Flippin
Unit Production Manager/Location Manager: Carlyn Couch

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A twelve-year-old girl runs away from home in rural Nevada and crosses paths with a charming man who lures her into prostitution.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Erin Cantelo
Producer: Toby Louie

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Love’s Labours Lost is Shakespeare’s only comedy where the women reject their suitors – a group of downright dangerous men in power. Our pointed satire, filled with dark humor and wit, will center the marginalized voices of Shakespeare’s female characters and highlight how little patriarchal oppression has changed in over 500 years.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Nick Musleh
Producers: Kristen Uno, Lydia Hunter

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The LUMPIA-armed avenger reappears in Fogtown and teams up with high school student Rachel to prevent a crime syndicate from selling drugs masked as food in this action comedy.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Co-Writer/Director/Executive Producer: Patricio Ginelsa
Editor/Executive Producer: A.J. Calomay

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After being rejected from seemingly everything, Aiko finds themself living in The Woods with the so-called MBPS, and en-route to becoming one. And although it's unclear if these people are dangerous, ridiculous, or both, Aiko can feel things for the first time. And that's exciting. And strange.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Brielle Brilliant (aka Pavli)
Producer: Lauren Sharifi
Producer: Gaby Leyner
Actor/Producer: Carol Hu
Co-Producer: Rob Allen
Actor/Choreographer/Teacher: Yumiko Yoshioka
Natural Builder/Teacher: Juan de Risio
Locations: Sua Yoo

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An Indian divorcée, struggling to raise her daughter, is forced to confront her violent and painful past at a dinner gathering with old friends

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Jacintha Charles
Producer: Lisa Yadao
Producer/1st AD: Harly Crandall
Director of Photography: Jussi Hayha
Production Designer/Art Director: Emma Scully

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Mary Woronov chronicles her colorful career spanning from her work with Andy Warhol to Roger Corman that sealed her reputation as a “Cult Queen”.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer/Editor: Francesca Di Amico
Producer/Cinematographer: Claudia Unger

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When drag queens start disappearing, a shy young barista must summon his inner super-shero to rescue them from an evil cosmetics exec bent on harvesting their magical anti-aging tears.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Project status: Production
Creator, Director, Executive Producer: Anthony Hand

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A young girl coerced into sex-trafficking must escape the emotional cage her “Romeo Pimp” has trapped her in before she loses what little hope remains to live and dream.

Project type: Narrative Short
Co-writer/Director: Spencer Currie
Co-writer/Producer: Dan Sima

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Monica is the intimate portrait of a woman who returns home to the Midwest for the first time in 20 years to take care of her dying mother. Exploring universal themes of abandonment, aging, rejection, hope and forgiveness, we are led into Monica's world through an introspective and riveting journey of our shared human condition.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director: Andrea Pallaoro
Producer: Gina Resnick
Producer: Eleonora Granata
Producer: Christina Dow
Executive Producer: Christina Sibul
Executive Producer: Karen Tenkhoff
DP: Kate Arizmendi
Costume Designer: Patrik Milani
Production Designer: Andrew Clark
HMU Department Head: Chelo Acosta-Conley

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A depressed pianist rediscovers his zest for life through an unexpected encounter with a songbird.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Co-Writer/Producer: John Henry Hinkel
Producer/Composer/Co-Writer: Ethan Pakchar
Executive Producer: Nemanja Gavrilovic
Lead Animator: Miloš Djurdjevic
Animator: Marko Djuricic
Background Artist: Milan Maksimovic
Recorder: Charlotte Barbour-Condini
Piano: Vicky Chow

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Upon receiving a disturbing email from her son, a mother drives frantically to his school hoping to avert the unimaginable.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Maia Scalia
Producer: Ani Schroeter
Editor: Pietro Scalia
Director of Photography: Matt Clegg
Composer: Eli Keszler

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A quarterfinalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, this drama feature with a sense of humor is about a lone transgender teen who helps a feisty undocumented Asian woman escape deportation, and they form an unlikely friendship that helps them heal their relationships with their own families.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Tricia Lee

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Four survivors of sexual assault perpetrated by active military members, unite to advocate for systemic, legislative change within the military court system.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Natalie Avital
Producer: Ryan M Murphy
Co-Producer: Lindsay Perry

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Mo Show paints an unexpected picture of Chattanooga, Tennessee, through the eyes of a young black filmmaker who guides us through the personal stories of the folks in his world. From his Confederate-flag-flying neighbor to the Iraqi refugee across town, Mo wants to connect every part of his still-segregated southern city.

Project type: Documentary Short
Co-director/DP/Editor: Annie Huntington
Co-director/Producer: Clay Thomas

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In an era of giant Maxi Pads and Phil Donahue, misfit teen Moxie finds her fit with a group of college political activists. But when she becomes pregnant by the rebel leader, she faces her own fight — arguing for her abortion at a time when women’s liberation is coming into its own.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director: Marya Mazor
Producers: Christina Sibul, Karen Tenkoff

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A family drama about the complexities of faith, community, and parent/child relationships.

Project type: Narrative Short
Producer/Director/Screenwriter/Story: Rachel Earnest
Producer/Editor/Story: Ashley Monti

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After a miscommunication leads her coworkers to believe that she is pregnant, a seemingly barren waitress allows the fantasy to overtake the reality and finds herself navigating an ever-growing web of lies as she gets closer and closer to her imaginary “full term.”

Project type: Narrative Short
Co-Directors/Producers: Arden Grier, Roxanna Dunlop
Writer: Julia Dixon

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Through multiple testimonials, The Naked Gardener showcases sexual misconduct and non-profit mismanagement perpetrated at the Pepperfield Project. This film provides a platform for silenced voices and catalyzes individual and organizational accountability towards a cauterized end to patterns of injustice.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Editor: Ian Carstens
Composer: Jaci Wilkinson

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Comprised of Necessity Part I: Oil, Water and Climate Resistance and Necessity Part II: Rivers, Resistance and Oil by Rail, NECESSITY traces the fight in Minnesota against the expansion of pipelines carrying toxic tar sands oil through North America. Home to much of the world’s precious freshwater resources, the state is also the site of expanding oil industry infrastructure. The film follows indigenous activists and non-indigenous allies in their resistance to the pipelines traversing native lands and essential waterways.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Jan Haaken
Co-Director: Samantha Praus

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The story of a Holocaust survivor, the writer who loves him, and the power of harnessing our past for a better future.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Yaniv Rokah
Producer: Jackii Chun
Producer: Vickie Rose Sampson
Co-Producer: Camila Vilalva
Executive Producer: Elliot V Kotek
Executive Producer: Andy Lewis

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In an all-Black world where power is the ultimate currency, everyone in Erika is after their share—and then some—but hidden motives, a media conspiracy, and a government takeover threaten to change the face and culture of their nation forever.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Executive Producer: LaQuin Alexander
Executive Producer/Showrunner: Jovel Roystan
Producer: Arneece Maynard
Producer: Hutt Nassar
Cinematographer: Kevin Spence

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New Wave is a coming-of-age story which celebrates the trail-blazers who rebuilt community and forged a vibrant music industry more influential than the one they left behind in their homeland post Fall of Saigon.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Elizabeth Ai
Co-producer: Anh Phan
Co-producer: Tracy Chitupatham

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Nihunavea bears witness to the complex struggles of reclaiming Native California Indian cultural heritage, spirituality, and Tribal Sovereignty. Set shortly after the Tejon Indian Tribe’s decades-long struggle for sovereignty through Federal Reaffirmation, Sandra Hernandez—an enrolled member and elected official of the Tejon Indian Tribe—forges a path through government agencies, museum institutions, & academia as she works to revitalize the Kitanemuk language, repatriate artifacts, and strengthen the foundational core of her Native identity: family & community.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Project status: Development
Director: Colin Rosemont
Director: Sandra Hernandez
Producer: Devlin Gandy

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Disabled players and their allies are using advocacy and technology to fight stigmas and enact change to make electronic gaming accessible and level the playing field.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Derek Dabkoski
Producer: Ian McClellan
Producer: Paige Draney
Co-Producer/Director of Photography: Nicholas Finn Myggen

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Nora's Mother and Nora's Husband follow the already-produced Nora to create a trilogy of films that weave together to consider the existential vis-a-vis the banal. These queer fever dreams are a stylized, stylish look at a pivotal moment in which three complicated characters consider a single, simple question: Who am I? Inspired by Shakespearean soliloquies and TikTok rants, Nora… explores the vulnerability and narcissism of publicly sharing a private reflection.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer/Producer/Actor: Neil D'Astolfo
Producer/Editor: Erika Kramer
Producer: Kevin Bender

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The kidnapping of her son by Argentina’s dictatorship, and her forty-year search for him, transforms Nora Cortiñas from conservative ‘housewife’ into a trailblazing social activist, inspiring a new generation to take hold of their future and seek justice for the past.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Jayson McNamara
Producer: Daniel Joyce
Producer: Rebecca Bennett

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A Nigerian-Italian girl secretly witnesses a white Italian boy she grew up with commit a hate crime, and wrestles with whether to speak up or not when the boy shows up to her home the next day.

Project type: Narrative Short
Producer/Co-Writer/"Renzo": Will Graziano
Director: Aqsa Altaf
Executive Producer: Bradley Gallo
Executive Producer: Olivia Hurd
Co-Writer: Daphne Di Cinto
Co-Writer: Alanna Bennett
Script Consultant: Angelica Pesarini

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When 32-year-old father Ady Barkan is diagnosed with ALS, a terminal illness that will soon paralyze his entire body, he decides to use the time he has left to confront the politicians who threaten his health care and America’s democracy. As he loses his ability to speak, he sets out across the country with his wife, 2-year old son, and a motley crew of activists to launch the most unlikely political movement in a generation.

Project type: Feature Documentary
Director: Nicholas Bruckman
Producer: Amanda Roddy

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A woman in the midst of an anxiety attack is confronted with questions about her own existence by two characters, who happen to be voices in her head.

Project type: Narrative Short
Producers: Kavi Ladnier, Rohi Mirza Pandya, Anita Hodges
Director/Screenplay: Kymberly Harris

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Youth in Indonesia are poised to become the majority of their country’s population by 2020. Despite unprecedented death tolls in the wake of environmental disasters, they remain resilient. No Word for No explores the question: how are the young people of Indonesia preparing to face the challenges ahead?

Project type: Documentary Short
Director/Producer: Andrew Morrison
Director of Photography: Auden Bui
Editor: Colton Loftin
Master Dalang: Ki Midiyanto

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Henry, a Black man grieving the unexpected loss of his father, finds himself regretting all the conversations they never had, when an opportunity arises for them to talk one final time.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Frederick Thornton
Producer: Gia Rigoli
Producer: Sean Hackett
Executive Producer: Fanshen Cox

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A young man that’s been living a life of crime has finally come face to face with his fate but it’s up to his Godfather to save him from making the biggest mistake of his life.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director: Tony Chennault
Producer: Joshua Meekins
Producer: Osagie Johnson
Producer: Shandra McDonald
Executive Producers: Brandon Pankey, Christina Faith, Stephon Barnes

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The lesson is love: when Pop Pop and his grandson, Les, play jazz, they summon six queer spirits and tumble through their memories.

Project type: Narrative Short
Producer: Vernon Jordan III
Cinematographer: Brian Emilio Rojas
Producers: Cynthia Francillon and Matthew Keene Smith
Executive Producers: Jamal Parker and Tarell Alvin McCraney

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Oscillation Transia Film Festival is a non-profit traveling event, exploring the intersection of solar energy application and environmental awareness through the art of film.

Project type: Film Festival
Festival Director: Jess Giacobbe
Festival Engineer: Austin Krause

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Out In The Streets is a feature-length documentary that explores the world’s most influential and thought-provoking queer street artists to explore the untold history of graffiti and street art as a tool for Queer Liberation.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Daniel Albanese
Producer: Jonathon Roessler

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A proud Black woman must confront the racial implications of her genuine love for the classic-rock band, Journey.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Portlynn Tagavi
Writer/Lead Actress: Erika Hamilton
Producer: Alexis Sterling
Executive Producer: Mel Jones
Cinematographer:Kalilah Robinson

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At a dance for Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII, a quiet teen relies upon her zoot suit alter-ego to win the girl.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Alexis Sterling
Writer: Kendra Arimoto
Producer: Cori-Anne Greenhouse
Cinematographer: Kalilah Robinson

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A group of dedicated Public School Teachers roll up their sleeves and fight for their students’ lives – plus their imaginations and school supplies – as they question the value of their life’s work and mentor a naïve new English Instructor – all during parent-teacher conference week.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer: Angela Garcia Combs
Co-Producer: Meredith Riley Stewart
Co-Producer/Creative Advisor: Asher Huey

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When popular non-binary YouTube ASMR-tist, Pal, enamored with the idea of death, meets their biggest fan who wants Pal to suffocate her to death, Pal is forced to reckon with the very real consequences of their words, deciding whether or not to go down a dark, irreversible path.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Jesse D. Turk

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Sandra finds herself in a new role as a caregiver for her mother living with dementia. Burnt out by the nonsense that is social service, the relentless pile-on of caregiving demands, and the heartbreak of slowly losing parts of her mother, Sandra risks it all and takes a night off.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Producer: Akilah 'AK' Walker
Producer/Writer: Diana Gonzalez-Morett
Producer: Camila Villanueva
Director of Photography: Joshua Echevarria
Casting Director: Liz Ortiz

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Harley Knox, a double amputee combat veteran, returns from Afghanistan and faces a new battle she must wage to regain her self.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Jennifer Noonan
Casting Director: Monika Mikkelsen

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After celebrating her "Annual 25th Birthday" a thriving designer visits her disinterested doctor who discovers a life-threatening diagnosis. Inspired by the filmmaker's true-life experience and highlighting the medical disparities women of color face.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer/Producer: V.C. Rhone
Producer: Kate Rees Davies
Producer: Pamela M. Staton
Director of Photography: Jenny Baumert
Composer: Edith Mudge

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In the near future, a young working-class Latino is thrust into a fully automated and privatized jail after being arrested by mistake.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: K.D. Davila
Co-Writer/Co-Producer: Levin Meneske

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When one incident triggers a storm, we realize we are more connected than we think.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Mary-Lyn Chambers
Producer: Roxy Shih

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When you sacrifice everything to be a “voice for the voiceless” and you’ve been a political activist for your entire life, then at age 79 you get to be the snarky grandmother who takes down the guy that no one else could touch.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Francine Graff
Line Producer: Jonathan Graff

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A high school boy's struggle with identity and an eating disorder, as his family attempts to heal past wounds and nurture future hope.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer: Brandon Shenk
Producer/Editor: Yining Xu
Executive Producer: Iman Zawahry
Co-Producer: Yu Ying Chien
Cinematographer: Vanon Li
Production Designer: Yudi Zhang
Director of Graphics: Yizhou He

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A teenage migrant escapes a detention center and confronts his past traumas, hopes and fantasies of living in the promised land - America- but it isn’t the America he was expecting.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer/Editor: Justin Ferrato
Producer: Daniel Maldonado
Producer: Bill Nugent

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In 2015, the tiny West African nation of Togo was named “unhappiest” in the world by the World Economic Forum, yet Togolese subsistence farmer, Vodun (“Voodoo”) priest, and aspiring rapper known as “Professor Doctor” manages a high-level of happiness through an interconnectedness with the land. However, decades of clearcutting and erratic climatic patterns have devastated crop yields and biodiversity rates; the distressing reality of climate change threatens to eradicate every aspect of Prof Doc’s identity.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Colin Scott
Director/Producer/Lead Researcher: Abby Snyder

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Project Mujeres” shines light on the pain of the women of Mexico, who actively fight to change machismo culture and its deadly toxicity.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Producer: Natasha MacLeay
Co-Producer: Mayur Agrawal
Director: Anuj Rawra
Editor/Director of Photography: Ashish Dawar
Community Outreach Coordinator: Merari Enriquez

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When a fire takes their home, a father and daughter must find a way to salvage what remains: each other.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Producer: Laura Zak
Producers: Katherine Fisher, Sheri Bradford

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A boy struggles to fit in his school desk and in life. When he crosses paths with an equally eccentric girl at school, the two misfits harness their weaknesses together and unlock their superpowers to defy school bullies and gravity.

Project type: Narrative Short
Project status: Development
Writer/Director: John Michael Riva Jr.
Producer: Doug Barden
Cinematographer: Indeana Underhill
Production Designer: Kato Lawton
Editor: Mario Andrew Fierro

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An optimistic administrator, who isn’t having a great workweek, tries to give herself a pep talk until two other personas actually appear and help her compose her thoughts for an upcoming meeting - yup - with a Karen!

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Joenique C. Rose
Producer: Guo Guo
Production Designer: Minolae Jain
Editor: Christine Douglas
Composer: Tiffany Román Louk

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In 2014, the band Quentin Blue was formed inside of San Quentin State Prison by men serving life sentences. In 2020, three band members were released and came to the same sober home in Los Angeles, where they have re-formed the band and now use music as part of their healing and reintegration into society.

Project type: Documentary Short
Project status: Development
Director/Producer: Lane Michael Stanley
Producer: Lowell Blank
Cinematographer: John David De Virgiliis
Editor: Prakshi Malik

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In the hopes of gaining a coveted spot in a prestigious acting program, a young woman navigates a herculean audition process where her limits are tested in the pursuit of success, fame, and winning the game.

Project type: Narrative Short
Project status: Development
Director/Co-Writer/Editor: Maggie Budzyna
Co-Writer/Producer: Christian Tasiopoulos
Cinematographer: Julia Swain

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Story of the American structural engineer Fazlur Rahman Khan, known as the ‘Einstein of structural engineering’ and ‘father of modern-day skyscrapers.’ Khan, a Muslim immigrant, built the iconic Sears Tower and the John Hancock Center in Chicago. His pioneering innovations literally transformed the landscape of America’s largest cities and paved the way for supertall skyscrapers worldwide.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Laila Kazmi
Cinematographer: Ryan Purcell
Graphics and Animation: Begoña Lopez
Associate Producer: Arnila Guha Nolok

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When a Filipina college student reunites with an old friend, she is confronted with a hazy, intimate memory, realizing they may have nothing in common anymore.

Project type: Narrative Short
Project status: Development
Writer/Exec Producer/Leading Role: Sari Arambulo
Director: Cole Bacani
Cinematographer: Joseph Yao
Producers: Brendan Bennett, Porschia Adler
Associate Producers: Ellis J. Sutton, Eddie Leavy
Editor: Kirsten Hoang

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A teenage boy is dropped off to work on a school project with a classmate. The strangers are forced to connect and a harsh reality is revealed.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Major Dorfman
Producer: Creighton Dorfman
Producer: Grace Merriman
Producer: Justin Gonçalves
Producer: Will Pinke
Cinematographer: Cinematographer

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In rural Pennsylvania, a teenage couple’s — James and Lizzy — relationship is interrupted by Aaron, the guy James almost hooked up with four months ago. Red explores being queer in conservative towns during hard times with empathy rather than disdain.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Scott Sullivan
Producer: Annalea Fiachi

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A group of sex workers and brothel youth form a film production house in the Kalighat redlight area, Kolkata, India. Despite the opposition from the conservative society, they are determined to become filmmakers, resist prostitution among the second generation, survive through the art of cinema, and aspire to transform the redlight area into a professional film colony in the post-pandemic time.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Bipuljit Basu
Producer: Nilotpal Majumdar
Producer: Max Tuula
Producer: Uldis Cekulis
Creative Consultant: Martijn te Pas
Cinematographer: Subhadeep Dey
Editor: Anirban Maity

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The Residents of 8264 Oakland Ave is the story of a queer, chosen family, in Milwaukee, whose home is bought out to be a strip mall.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director: Rhea Bozzacchi
Actor/Producer: Molly Ragen
Cinematographer: Mike Maliwanag

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A young man unexpectedly dies. Guided by a brilliant being of light, he is transported to hell, heaven, and other dimensions in between. He is returned back to life into his body against his will. Though transformed by his encounter with infinite love, he struggles to accept his fateful return to earth and the responsibilities that come with it.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Producer: James Guyer
Producer: Colin Bates
Writer: Kevin Bernhardt
Director: Kevin Brodie
Legal & Sales: George Rush

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Armed with innovative brain imaging technologies and the emerging field of neurolaw, scientists set a course to advocate for evidence-based juvenile criminal policy.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Helena Cortes
Producer: Bria Cole

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A young ex-convict struggling with new freedom pursues redemption at all costs when given a job from his neighbor.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Rashad Frett
Executive Producer: Mark Manson
Producer: Pierre Coleman, Ramfis Myrthil
Cinematographer: Sam Motamedi
Lead Actor: Melvin Mogoli

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The life of a disciplined high school athlete begins to unravel when his queer identity competes against the idea of who he was supposed to be.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer/Editor: Benjamin Howard
Producer: Laura Scarano
Cinematographer: Michael Elias Thomas

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Alma feels she's finally found an escape from her uncomfortable family life when she joins an underground world of circus performers, but as she becomes the muse of its enigmatic ringmaster, the creative fantasy devolves into a prison that feels uncannily familiar...

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Maya Albanese
Producer: Rebecca Maar
Producer: Lisa Crnic
Director of Photography: Caleb Heymann
Costume: Kit 'Pistol' Scarbo
Production Designer: Rene Vas

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A middle aged virgin and a widow spend their wedding night in an isolated cabin, where they each come out with the secrets they've been hiding. She's not interested in monogamy, and he believes he's a werewolf. Safe Word is an exploration of love, acceptance, and sex positivity in the form of a Lynchian horror-dramedy.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Project status: Development
Producer: Dani Parker
Producer: Mat Miller
Cinematographer: Brandon Woodard
Sound Designer/Production Mixer: Jeramy Parker

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Three Arab women living in modern day Jordan must put their differences aside and work together in order to survive. Tangled in a family drama after Bakri dies, his two wives and his adopted daughter navigate his inheritance, finding out that the only way forward is to try and make peace with each other.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director: Hanadi Elyan
Producer: Nathan Bennett

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What happens when a boy and his brother go on a road trip in search of their missing mom? Sam Now follows Sam Harkness from age 11 to 36, as his once-average family becomes heartbroken and wracked with questions after his mother suddenly abandons them.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Reed Harkness
Producer/Editor: Jason Reid
Editor: Darren Lund
Co-Producer: Heather Hawksford
Co-Producer: Adam Brown
Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen, Andy McDonough, Colin Harper Plank, David J. Cornfield

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A serious man tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Paul Kowalski
Producer: Pin-Chun Liu
Producer: Stephanie Furtun
Cinematographer: Sean Bagley
Co-Editor: Spencer Koobatian

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A documentary series about the triumph of the human spirit, following six men and women who have overcome domestic violence.

Project type: Documentary Series
Co-Director/Producer: Meredith Yinger
Co-Director/Director of Photography: Natalie Perez

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Co-stars Ela’ (Clarke Peters) and Legbani (Yolonda Ross) burn up the stage in a new racially fueled Broadway play. But when trust is violated, fact and fiction become blurred as the couple wrestles with what it means to love and succeed as black artists in show business.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director/Executive Producer: Yolonda Ross
Producers: Sasha Solodukhina, Adaptive Studios, NightFox Entertainment

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Sadie, a 17-year-old ferry deckhand has her day turned upside down when she tries to delete a love-confessing text message before outing herself to the crew.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Lindsey Ryan
Producer: Samantha Scolarici
Co-Producer: Danny Ryan
Executive Producer: Katherine Doyle
Associate Producer: Eden Strassburg
Cinematographer: Ming Hu
Colorist: Elodie Ichter
Cast - Sadie: Pauline Chalamet

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Season of the Witches is a psycho-social crime thriller following three American PhD students volunteering in post-hurricane Puerto Rico who accidentally kill a local playboy in a revenge scheme gone wrong. When the “doing good on the Island” women try to cover up the murder, they are pursued by a local detective with demons of her own, raising the stakes on what it means to be loyal and good.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director: Deborah Riley Draper
Writer/Producer: Sherri Daye Scott
Executive Producer: Mikki Taylor
Executive Producer: Cheryl Polote-Williamson

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To tame her mischief, a single mother enrolls her nine-year-old daughter in private painting lessons in Kathmandu until she suddenly catches a mysterious illness. When doctors are unable to pin down a diagnosis, her strong-willed mother turns to a local shaman who reveals shared trauma that leads mother and daughter down a path of redemption.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director: Nani Sahra Walker

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Following a cancer diagnosis, Sister Úna—a wisecracking Catholic nun dedicated to social justice—chooses to live as she’s dying. In Sister Úna Lived a Good Death, we follow the self-proclaimed “leader of the misfits” in her last nine months as she plans her funeral, attempts to complete her bucket list, and confronts what it means to let go.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Par Parekh
Producer: Ali Hart
Editor: Ann Rose
Editor: Chris McNabb
Composer: Nathan Halpern

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In 1952, a prominent Soviet scientist was arrested and pressured to sign a confession to save his family. Later, the Soviet regime executed him for telling the truth by openly criticizing the director of the science academy who adamantly promoted pseudo-science.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: W. Y. Geng
Producer: Becca (Suh-Hee) Han
Cinematographer: Ming Jue Hu
Art Director: Eleanora Figueroa Steiner
Editor: Anya Khusnatdinova

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She Said / She Said is a character driven dramedy based in the Los Angeles live storytelling community. A storyteller suffering from writer's block finds her unique voice and comes to terms with her abusive childhood when she hears a younger woman tell a story eerily similar to her own.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Sara Alize Cross
Producers: Matt Chupack, Don Ohmer, Matt Michienzie

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She Cried That Day is a feature documentary chronicling the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women’s Crisis through the lens of one Indigenous woman haunted by her sister’s unsolved murder. We bear witness to the emotional journey thousands of families must suffer through as their loved one’s cases sit on the shelves and we investigate the system that allows it to continue.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Executive Producer: Amanda Erickson
Executive Producer: Sarah Burns
Executive Producer: Alex Sherratt

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When the California WaterFix, an estimated $18 billion proposal to divert fresh water to Southern California, was introduced it seemed inevitable despite the high price tag and public opposition. Shouting Into the Wind introduces the union reps and political figures behind the proposal and the vocal residents who pushed back.

Project type: Documentary Short
Director/Producer: Elizabeth Bayne
Journalist: Jessica Grainger

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When an opportunistic Indian graduate student finds a bag full of drugs, he decides to sell them on the deep web to make a quick buck. Little does he know that a brilliant Indian American DEA agent is working around the clock to hunt him down.

Project type: Narrative Episodic
Director: Pradeep Katasani
Producer: Amar P

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Three women whose lives are shattered by ISIS travel intertwined journeys on two continents to find their shared destiny in fighting back.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Anna M. Bofarull
Producer: Azadeh Khatibi
Producer: Marian Matachana
Cinematographer: Lara Vilanova
Editor: Diana Toucedo

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Snake River is a Rock and Roll drama series about the unlikely rise of Luke Weaver, a middle-aged depressive whose talent for self-sabotage is second only to his ability to make great music.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer/Prodcuer: Bobby Field
Producer: Ashley Krick
Director of Photography: Zach Voytas

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On the Eastside of Detroit in the summer of 2003, a Grandfather tries to hide his daughter’s incarceration from his young grandson in the midst of a city-wide blackout caused by an alien invasion.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Eric Riley
Producer: Jasmin Joseph
Producers: Gabriel Freeman, Clark Bishop
Director of Photography: Kate Levy
VFX Producer: Jeremy Brooks
Casting Director: Michele Mansoor

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Three women break the silence & stigma surrounding later abortion by sharing their complex stories.

Project type: Documentary Short
Producer: Asha Dahya
Co-producer: Sarah Moshman
Editor: Prakshi Malik
Animator: McGregor

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A pregnant Palestinian woman, whose husband died in the Israeli prison, wants to avenge his death. Under Hamas’ guidance, she plans a terror attack in Israel. The premature birth of her son makes her reconsider, but will Hamas let her off the hook?

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Adva Reichman
Producers: Nahd Bashier, Nicholas Benjamin

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A once promising playwright returns home to make amends with his dying father while picking up the pieces of a broken dream.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Project status: Development
Director: Kristen Hansen
Producer: Heather Brawley
Producer: Antonio A Ayala
Writer/Actor: Nick Maccarone

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Locations like the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs show how Stan’s work is a staple of the Mid Century Movement from a California artist working since the 1950’s to today. The film is a study of contrasts, Stan, a reserved man, whose work, much like Jackson Pollack’s, is the culmination of physical battle with his preferred medium, clay.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Francesca Di Amico
Director of Photography/Producer: Claudia Unger

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Elderly prisoners cost taxpayers billions and are the least likely to reoffend, which is why senior citizen activist Bill Ryan - who already helped to end the death penalty in Illinois - wants to set them free.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Ben Kolak
Producer: Yana Kunichoff

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Veteran suicide is a huge problem in the U.S. today. Steel Soldier follows military veterans and others struggling with PTSD as they use armored combat - an emerging combat sport - to deal with their traumas.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Creator/Producer: Carl Fisk
Director: Jamie Flanagan
Editor/DIT: Derek Evans
Co-Producer: Jordan Letsinger
Cinematographer: Madison McKamey

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Upon adoption, filmmaker Elizabeth Jacobs was the only baby out of her fellow adoptees to not receive a single piece of information about her family background. Now, twenty one years later, she returns to Cambodia for the first time since childhood in order to uncover the truth about her adoption, as she is determined to find out why, and why her.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Elizabeth Jacobs
Producer: Breanna Lynn
Assistant Director: Phoebe J Yung
Director of Photography: Britney Bautista
Sound Technician: Shorif Suhel
Cinematographer: Corey Clark
Sound Technician: Noah Penkrat
Cinematographer: Shalyn Delhaes
Gaffer: David Fernandez
Executive Producer: Darsh Thakker
Executive Producer: Avi Zephyra

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Stronger Than The Bullet is a non-partisan documentary project following three generations of women - in three states - as they fight for voting rights during the 2020 election. Embedded, we witness the inspiring stories of communities struggling for representation in an election year where not only democracy itself is on the line - but people may literally be dying to vote. Each generation has a timeless tale to tell, revealing a hard truth - we have been here before.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Gilda Ann Brasch
Executive Producer: Paula Munoz Vega
Executive Producer: Autumn Udell

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Garrett (17) - a teenage cinephile whose congenital heart defect all-but guarantees he'll die before he's thirty - gets tapped to launch a media campaign for Sunburst Cinemas - a dying, independent movie theater, whose antiquated amenities, inept manager, and hapless, rag-tag employees all-but-guarantee it won't survive the summer.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Producer: Mark Wilson
Writer/Producer: Chris Retts
Producer: J.P. Oullette
Producer: Dylan Matlock
Executive Producer: Hilary Barraford
Cinematographer: Thomas Rose
Composer: Jacob Boyd
Sound Editor: Will Digby

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A Chinese-American mother and daughter pull into a gas station in rural Virginia but are refused service for being Asian. Mary stubbornly refuses to drive away until she gets served, so eight-year-old Shelly uses her imagination to help her mother preserve dignity in the face of racism. A dark comedy set in the 80’s. Based on a true story.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Christy Chan
Consulting Producer: Nico Opper
Executive Producer: Gordon Yamate

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The sun sets too often on pregnant women in Nigeria who face an inescapable reality - to live or die. In Sunset, we follow some women on a journey to remove the veil of Nigeria's dichotomic healthcare system.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Adaku Uwandu
Producer: Ife Olatunji
Cinematographer: Gilliam De La Torre

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Meet Jim. A police cadet fresh out of the academy who gets in over his head when he tries resolving a domestic abuse case outside the legal system. Good luck, Jim.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director: Quinn Armstrong
Producer: Colin West

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A private peek behind the curtain at award-winning celebrity chef, Susan Feniger, as she tries to create her first solo restaurant in Los Angeles: Susan Feniger’s STREET. The adventure of hunting down delicious street food takes Susan to Southeast Asia, China and then back to Los Angeles where the recipes refuse to behave and the build-out of the new restaurant goes horribly, horribly wrong.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Lisa Lachman
Producer: Lisa Donmall-Reeve
Co-Producer: Myrta Vida

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Shot over the lead actor’s first year on Testosterone, T follows Em through their journey of gender discovery, and the challenges and joys they face in their romantic relationships, friendships, and family.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director: Lane Michael Stanley
Producer: Lowell Blank
Executive Producer: Deb Fink
Lead Actor/Story: Mel Glickman

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Through intimate first-hand accounts, refugees describe their near-impossible journeys of hope from their African homes to European cities. Alongside, social and other aid workers provide a framework for challenges new immigrants often face as they attempt integration.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Daniel W Smith

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Two pretentious Upper East Side New Yorkers are blackballed from the local theatre scene and decide their only recourse is to travel to Fargo, ND and start a theatrical revolution.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer: Noam Tomaschoff
Writer/Executive Producer: Chelsea Frei
Producer: Matthew Cooper
Director of Photography: Arlen Konopaki

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A single father finds out his teenage daughter just got her first period so he goes into an adventure through an endless sanitary towel shelf to try to help her the best way he can.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Gabriela Lima
Producer: Kevin Aguirre
Co-Producer/Production Manager: Ana Luiza Leite
Editor: Rafael Franco

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After an unexpected one night stand, two women at very different stages of their lives, share an even more intimate morning after.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Felicia Pride
Producer: Regina Hoyles

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After finding what he thinks is the perfect couple, a determined twenty year old boy turns to escorting in order to support his terminally ill grandfather.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Actor: Howard Campbell
Producer: Misha Zvagilskiy

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On the eve of her high-school graduation, rebellious teenager Sarah acquires a gun to exact revenge on a man that raped her years prior. Sarah must reconsider her choices when she discovers this man is now the single parent to a baby daughter.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Marfisia Bel
Producer: Esteban Zuluaga
Director of Photography: Brody Anderson

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A documentary short exposing an unsettling truth: The United States no longer welcomes the “tired, poor, huddled masses” we’re telling to “get in line” for the American dream. There is no line anymore, not for them.

Project type: Documentary Short
Director: Sharon Boeckle
Executive Producer: Matt Cameron

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After being arrested in an FBI sting and labeled a domestic terrorist amidst the Ferguson protests, a once-promising student, father, artist, and activist leader comes home to his life and family after 6 years of federal incarceration. With over a decade of intimate footage, this film bears witness as Olajuwon questions the tactics and label of “Black Identity Extremist” used to put him away and learns to reconcile his tumultuous past with his hopeful future.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Robert T. Herrera
Producer: Aaron Bowden
Producer: Damon Davis

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This Crooked World is a deliciously playful thriller that follows two women and the nefarious characters pursuing them across the US-Mexico border. It draws inspiration from Fargo, Snatch, and Thelma & Louise.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Producer: Lisa Donmall-Reeve
Producer: Tom Wilton
Director: Maria McIndoo

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On the night of their wedding anniversary, a bohemian theatre actress and a beatnik inspired writer confront the strife of their relationship, dreams and the city they once loved.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Hassan Said
Producer: Masha Karpoukhina
Writer: Lourdes Figueroa
Cinematographer: Peggy Peralta

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A disastrous one-night-stand between drunken millennials gets unexpectedly extended when a neighborhood lockdown prevents Lucas from leaving Asha’s apartment. LUCAS, a laid back, agnostic tutor, and ASHA, a tough-as-nails, God-fearing attorney, must survive the police lockdown for six hours without killing each other or… falling in love.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Project status: Production
Director/Producer: Elton Loud

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Pearlette, Tammy and Terry are Three (Extra)Ordinary Women of color who collectively have overcome poverty, abuse, systemic racism, and political occupation. The film will explore their life stories and how the parallels between the Palestinian occupation and Jim Crow in the United States have equally disenfranchised people of color. Braving their biggest physical obstacle yet – climbing to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro– will show women of color can accomplish anything.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Cionin Lorenzo
Executive Producer: Pearlette J Ramos
Director of Photography: Nick Kalisz
Cinematographer: Steve Vanderheide

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An experimental long-form visual poem about a solo female traveler reflecting on the principles of human existence through a woman’s lens. Her fragmented memories are juxtaposed with natural imagery captured from Iceland and Africa. The two polar opposite locations visually represent the cognitive dissonance in us all.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/WriterProducer/Editor: Aimee Jennings

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A harassed public health researcher must choose between her personal safety and her university career when she becomes the target of digital bullying and real-life terror.

Project type: Narrative Short
Project status: Development
Director: Satinder Kaur
Producer/Writer: Terra Wellington
Consulting Producer: Nina Martinek
Composers: Alexa L. Borden and Connor Cook

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A father and son in tornado country find themselves in parallel dreams, chasing the eye of a storm they fear holds a troubling family secret.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Producer: David Connor
Director: John Fairchild
Cinematographer: Matthew Shoichi Wilder

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To the Land follows three friends and their small organic farm located on the California Coast. Over the course of a year, Brisa Ranch faces challenges and setbacks that put not only their friendship and farm at risk, but the very land they call home.

To the Land is a cinema verité portrayal of the struggles and joys found on the land and the resilience of those who grow the food that feeds our country.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Katie Bancroft
Producer: Libby Hart

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A poet and a visual artist grapple to understand the world around them while practicing physical-distancing during the tumultuous year of 2020.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director: Alejandro Miranda Cruz
Producer: Noel Miranda
Cinematographer: Greg Hatton
Cast: Matthew Charles
Cast: Brooke Leland

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1941 – Far away from the barbarity of the War, in Lebanon. Following a Sunday lunch that goes sour, Matile, mother of eleven, imposes her laws on both the General of the French Mandate and the Head of the Church, by shaking the established customs.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writers/Directors/Producers: Zarazir Brothers
Co-Producer: Nadia Turincev

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A restless young immigrant, working at an isolated Punjabi truckstop in the California desert, must decide whether she truly wants out.

Project type: Narrative Short
Project status: Development
Director: Molly Karna
Producer: Julia Elizabeth Evans
Co-Producer: Rob Rice
Associate Producer: Tanishq Babel
Cinematographer: Elisabetta "Fox" Piantoni

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The 2016 election reaffirmed the power of American Evangelicalism. Many, including pastor J, are still dumbfounded. How could a divorcee who bragged about grabbing women garner support from a community predicated on piousness? The answer goes beyond Trump. Decades ago, conservative leaders conspired to seize political power. T​rue Believer​ is a feature documentary that reveals the remarkable tale of how a religion was hijacked for political gain, and​ especially as we look toward 2020,​ unpacks the present-day crisis many evangelicals are facing now that their faith is largely responsible for electing Donald Trump.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Kristen Irving-Jordan
Producer: Katie Doering

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While we all carry our individual burdens, we don’t have to do so alone. TRUE. TALK. DOCS. bring awareness to those things we bury deep or hide from others (especially on social media), while highlighting those achievements that we feel more comfortable sharing.

Project type: Web Docuseries
Director/Producer: Mary Gerretsen

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After a man-made disaster decimates an evergreen island, a stranded 11-year-old girl must find the tenacity to leave behind her home with the help of an unlikely friend - the majestic Manta Ray.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Kateryna Kurganska Gorbanov
Producer: C. Craig Patterson
Producer: Don John

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A fish-out-of-water in “Small Town,” Pennsylvania finds herself in over her head when she has an affair with a local married man and becomes an accessory to a murder. In the end she risks it all to save the lives of two innocent children. Nothing ever happens in a small town… until it does.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Hollis Sherman-Pepe
Producer: ShaunPaul Costello

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Pritanka Agrawal (30) is 100% American -- politically active, foul mouthed, and completely independent. After her mother dies, she goes to India to scatter her ashes with her mother’s extended family.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Urvashi Pathania
Producer: Ayesha Nadarajah
Cinematographer: Vanon Li
Editor: Pratyush Dubey

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Eva rebels against her uptight Asian American parents by getting engaged to a White, hippie boy, but when she accidentally shoots him dead during a family hunting trip, mom, dad and daughter have to sort through their own dysfunctional dynamics to figure out who’s taking the blame or getting rid of the body.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Zao Wang
Co-Writer: Tom Toro
Co-Writer: Carmiel Banasky
Producer: Joyce Liu-Countryman
Producer: Louise Barretto
Executive Producer: Margaret Cho
Director of Photography: Brian Nguyen
Production Designer: Emma Koh
Editor: Shannon C. Griffin
Costume Designer: Ashley Medina
Cast: Margaret Cho as June

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In 1963, a white civil rights activist is murdered while on a Freedom Walk to deliver a letter to the governor of Mississippi. Within a week, a diverse group of Freedom Walkers attempts to complete the walk and are arrested. Forty-five years later, a woman commits to walk the same path and ensure the letter is finally delivered, alongside the surviving Freedom Walkers.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Writer: Laura Cross

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In battle-weary Baltimore, a young, charismatic politician captures the hearts and hopes of the citizenry when he runs for mayor and wins; will he be the leader that can finally heal the city’s pain, or will he just bring more heartbreak?

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough
Producer: Dawne Langford

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A documentary film that explores beauty pageant culture through the lens of a former contestant.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Mandi Reno-Matarrese
Producers: Joseph and Phillip Matarrese

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Facing social and political instability in the US, and also in some of their home countries, four foreign university students from four different countries struggle internally and externally with their own versions of the American Dream as they pursue their degrees in Utah—can they forge a life here?

Director/Producer: Ya-Chi Yang
Producer: Mengxu Pan
Writer: Sonia Albert-Sobrino
Co-producer: Miriam Albert-Sobrino
Editor: Stan Clawson

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On the day of her friend’s engagement party, Angie, an Asian-American woman, unearths her chilling preference for white men. She finds herself trapped by her friends’ equally shared preference and by her inability to escape her own attraction.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Co-Writer: Alisha Bhowmik
Co-Writer/Producer: Amanda Centeno
Producer: Yuki M. Ledbetter
Consulting Producers: Maya Tanaka and Jalena Keane-Lee

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A woman hires a photographer to document her estranged family’s last day with their dying matriarch, but her sister is running late.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Lucy Gamades
Producer: Mike Ferlita
Director of Photography: Alexa Carroll
Line Producer: Ryan Leibowitz
Casting Director: Joshua Michael Payne
Sound Designer: Michael Spencer

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When an aging supermodel's (played by Claudia Suleweksi) appeal begins to dim, she visits a magical apothecary in hopes of revitalizing her appearance but quickly learns that beauty comes at a price.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Caroline Iaffaldano
Producer: Tallulah Dirnfeld
Talent/Executive Producer: Claudia Sulewski
Executive Producer: LE Seydel

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A feature documentary exploring the lives of two men, as they attempt to overcome their childhood trauma, renounce violence and lead better lives.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Project status: Production
Director/Producer: Nick Taussig,
Director/Editor: Riccardo Servini

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Walk With Me follows my husband Charlie’s journey living with early onset Alzheimer’s. We see him as the father, the creative, the husband, the patient, and his authentic self, as he lives life with a diagnosis most people are afraid to talk about. Together, we will meet other women and men also trying to navigate their lives anew and we will explore the next frontier of brain research both in America and abroad.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Co-Director/Producer: Heidi Levitt
Cinematographer: Lisa Rinzler
Producer: Vanessa Perez
Producer/Lead Subject: Charlie Hess
Executive Producer: Alex Gibney

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A young trans successful businesswoman is not having the same luck with dating men. When she starts a dance class to learn how to waltz and finds a new friend and course partner she doesn't want to get her hopes too high, but it is not easy for someone as romantic as she is.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Project status: Development
Producer: Ava Davis
Director: Hillary R. Heath
Producer: Madison Hatfield
Cinematographer: Abijeet Achar
Editor/Producer: Nicole Kemper
Associate Producer: Jamie Dion
Associate Producer: Clarinda D'Cruz
Associate Producer: Jason Gonsalves
Production Designer: Crystal Jin Kim
Costume Designer: Alan Yeong-Marcello

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Having spent months consoling her recently dumped best friend Sofia, Rudy, a twenty-nine-year-old pushover must tell hysterical Sofia that she’s moving in with her own boyfriend only to realize that maybe she’s making a huge mistake.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Portlynn Tagavi
Producer: Greg Schroeder
Cinematographer: TJ Thickett
Editor: Camilla Bartoli
Production Designer: Kelly Stark Reckert

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Amidst rising anti-Semitism in Billings, Montana, Rae, a 22 year old Jewish girl and descendant of Holocaust survivors uncovers issues of self worth, addiction, and buried childhood trauma which she must learn to face and heal.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Alana Waksman
Producer: Jeri Rafter
Producer/Editor: Marshall Granger
Director of Photography: B. Rubén Mendoza
Sound Designer: Diego Perez

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As we near the “Sixth Extinction” of our planet, the evidence is clear: the insect population faces global obliteration, and humanity needs to be prepared. Weeping Rocks is a documentary that focuses on the critical role small organisms play in our fragile ecosystem and the frontline workers who have quietly dedicated their lives to tracing, studying, and cultivating these often overlooked creatures. “Love them or loathe them, we humans cannot survive without insects.”

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director: Karlis Bergs
Producer: Jackii Chun
Cinematographer: Alexey Kurbatov

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Weight of the World is a televised anthology series with fictional present-day storylines whose dialogue is solely derived from the original transcripts of the federal Workers’ Project Administration (WPA) interviews of formerly enslaved African-Americans during 1936-1938. This is American documentary theatre on screen.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer/Writer: Michelle Renee Jackson, MDiv
Co-Producer: Mark Herzog

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In 1960s California, an L.A. clinic opened its doors to offer conversion therapy to worried parents of LGBTQ children. Doctors wondered if identity was flexible, and designed a project to see if gender and sexuality were the results of nature or nurture. While seeking the truth in this story behind their own identities, two unlikely friends, come together to investigate the ongoing harm of conversion therapy shapes the lives of trans youth today.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Directors: Sé Sullivan & Mauro Sifuentes
Producers: Sé Sullivan & Mauro Sifuentes
Consulting Producer: Marc Smolowitz
 

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A short film about two queer women recalling their awkward, closeted high school days of kissing boys and straight-girl crushes.

Project type: Narrative Short
Co-writer/Director: Niki Ang
Co-writer/Cinematographer: Karen Du

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What Color is Blue is about the internal impotence that we, as queer youth, feel while facing the people, politicians, and organizations that do not want us to exist.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer/Cinematographer: Carman Spoto
Producers: Carman Spoto, Quinn Dougherty

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A young woman’s life is flipped upside down by secrets from her mother and she is forced to become the parent instead of the child.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Elizabeth Block
Producers: Daniel McGilvray, Debbie Brubaker

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After giving birth to her first child, a mother deals with her new identity, as she navigate life with her baby, her husband, and her loud and opinionated family.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Gabriela Garcia Medina
Co-Writer/Producer: Vicki Syal
Casting Director: Alan Luna
Production Designer/Graphic Designer: Joshua Sankar
Costume Designer: Dagmarette Yen
Editor: Pieb Espinosa
Key Hair/Makeup: Ching Tseng
Cast: Jessica Marie Garcia, Keyla Monterroso Mejia, Cheryl Umaña Bonilla

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Inside a run-down diner on pleasure moon Huvi, a romantic psychodrama plays out between two waitresses and an odd stranger who may not be of this world.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Sonja Kelly
Director of Photography: Andrés Solórzano
Editor: Michael Tang

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When a high school counselor told him to quit his Black friends, Loannis Veliotes dropped out, took his drum set on the road, and became Johnny Otis–a decades long innovator and promoter of Rhythm & Blues and Rock & Roll. Calling himself “Black by persuasion,” Johnny Otis tore through taboos against white and Black musicians playing together and wrote dozens of R&B and rock hits along with books and articles promoting Black liberation.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: David Zeiger
Director/Producer: Mobolaji Olambiwonnu
Director of Photography: Jerry Henry
Director of Archival Research: Jayne Kennedy
Editor: Lindsay Mofford
Motion Graphics: Christopher Kirk

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Three athletes - Rachael, Akoray, and Joe - grew up sacrificing their bodies for their sport, not realizing they were sacrificing their bodies to eating disorders. Through their personal wins and losses, we learn how the fierce drive of these elite athletes contributes to a dangerous mental illness - and may be their key to recovery.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Project status: Production
Producer/Director: Chris Blunk
Executive Producer: Nancy Kerrigan

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A legendary coach and a talented team of outsiders transform the sleepy desert city of Tucson, Arizona into a crazed college basketball mecca.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Sean P. Malone
Director/Producer: Brad Malone
Producer: Isaiah Leslie
Producer: Mustan Dawood

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In rural Montana, a rising MMA fighter’s reckless life in and out of the cage is derailed further when she is forced to attend equine therapy after clashing with the police.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Joseph Marconi
Producer: Lysette Urus
Director of Photography: David Vollrath
Associate Producer: Chance Housley

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When a young girl is called upon in court as the sole witness in her father's sexual assault case, she must choose between telling the truth or protecting her family.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director: Mishal Mahmud
Producer: Nidhi Kulkarni
Producer: Aishy Vimal
Cinematographer: Kathryn Boyd-Batstone
Sound Recordist: Renia Akamatsu

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A Jewish woman takes shelter in the closet of a Polish couple in 1943. A child is soon born and their lives are irrevocably changed.

Project type: Narrative Short
Writer/Director: Michael Masarof
Producer: Sharon Barnes

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When a depressed young writer in the late 19th century is restricted by her well-intentioned physician husband to a summer of bed rest in a remote country estate, her isolation — and marriage — sets in motion her descent into madness.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Kevin Pontuti
Producer/Lead Actor: Alexandra Loreth

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On her way to visit her sick father, an adrift young woman, Riley Varick, hits a deer on the road and is forced to confront and accept her actions as a prerequisite for her father’s inevitable demise.

Project type: Narrative Short
Director/Writer: Ani Schroeter
Producer: Myriam Schroeter
Cinematographer: Alexander Dynan

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After learning about the death of his mentor on Facebook, Yoshi walks 8,800 miles to connect with her family and friends. But along his journey Yoshi discovers the courage to look inward and rectify his own past.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Producer: Momo Lee Aoi

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After being separated from his incarcerated mother at birth, Tommy Franklin searches for her identity while uncovering deep ancestral bloodlines. As he gets closer to this life-altering truth, he must navigate his way through systems designed to keep him in the dark.

Project type: Documentary Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Tommy Franklin
Producer: Natalie Pattillo
Director of Photography: Justin Jones
Composer and Sound Designer: Renee Copeland

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Forced to leave the comfort of his middle class lifestyle at his father’s behest, twelve-year-old Ahmet is sent to an all-boys religious dormitory where he must navigate familial expectations, his religious obligations, and the childhood to which he so desperately clings.

Project type: Narrative Feature
Director/Writer: Nehir Tuna
Producer: Tanay Abbasoglu
Producer: Dorothe Beinemeier
Co-Producer: Thierry Lenouvel
Cinematographer: Florent Herry

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