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: Fiction 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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An ambitious assistant at a major sports management firm will do whatever it takes to win the approval of his nefarious boss... starting with setting himself on fire.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Russell Goldman
Producer: Comet Pictures
Producer: Michael Fry
Producer: Wendy Wang

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

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A disenchanted, older priest and his bright-eyed mentee embark on a quest for the perfect communion wine in a Napa Valley escapade turned full-on identity crisis.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Executive Producer: Kevin Hickey
Director: Comcille Donston
Producer/1st Assistant Director: Connor Jones
Executive Producer: Marisa Laurance, Sean Szatkowski

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

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Cafuné tells the story of Christine, an exotic dancer in an open marriage who discovers her fear of getting older while on a getaway with a lover.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Joanne Nguyen
Producer: Grace Hanna
Producer: Jamila Hache

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

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A tough goodbye on the border.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Jingwen Felix Qiang
Producer: Brielle Yuke Li
Executive Producer: Jennie Lew Tugend
Director of Photography: Kadri Koop
Editor: Shicong Zhu

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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: Fiction 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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Down on his luck, a failed LA musician, Cary, begrudgingly accepts a songwriting gig for a viral country-rap sensation in a last-ditch effort to chase his dreams, reuniting his old band, and making amends along the way.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Phillip Yaw Domfeh
Producer: Priya Jane Domfeh

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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: Fiction Short
Director: Tyler Rabinowitz
Writer/Actor: Sam Digiovanni
Producer: Jeremy Truong, Luca Piccin

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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: Fiction 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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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Jessica Sherif
Producer: Jessica Carlson

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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: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer: Asma Bseiso

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A Muslim teen tries to help a man bumming cigarettes outside a gas station, but his troubles might prove beyond her capacity.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Sarah Mokh
Producer: Amanda Pinto
Producer: Elaine Tunnat

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La Clef Revival is collective of activists, filmmakers, and artists who have been fighting for the past 4 years to save a historic cinema in the center of Paris, La Clef.

Project type: Organization
"Commons" Expert: Eric Arrivé
French Screenwriter/Director: Céline Sciamma
Member of Cinema Nova (Brussels): Laurent Tenzer
Operator of Reflet Médicis (Paris): Jean-Marc Zekri

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A timely docuseries examining the multitude of traumas straining the public education system, featuring compelling interviews with the teachers and students targeted in the manufactured culture wars over American classrooms in the decades long battle to privatize public education.

Project type: Nonfiction Episodic
Writer/Director/Producer: Joseph Erikson
Co-Producer/Cinematographer: Jon Beanlands

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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: Fiction Feature
Director: Lara Jean Gallagher
Producers: Davis Priestley, Aimee Lynn Barneburg

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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: Fiction Short
Creator/Writer/Lead: Zoë Smurr
Director: Jocelyn Cooper

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