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Rottenpotatoes98 and Lil_Quacko are best friends– online. When they accidentally meet in reality, their friendship is put to the test.

Writer/Director/Producer: Rachel Moss
Director of Photography: Kelsey Talton

Producer/Production Designer: Marissa Goldman

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GenXX

GenXX is an organization whose mission is to raise awareness and create directing opportunities for the generation of talented, experienced, and vetted women who were overlooked - lost between sexism and ageism. Through the organization we will be making multiple films helmed by Gen X women directors.

Project type: Organization
Director/Producer/Writer: Susan Dynner
Director/Producer/Writer: Maria Burton
Director/Producer/Writer: Monique Sorgen
Director/Writer: Nandi Bowe

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Georgette in the Garden

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

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

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Giant Void

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

Project type: Fiction Feature
Project status: Development
Writer/Director: Michael Reisinger
Producers: Adia Stark, Andrew Baird, Michael Reisinger, Molly Burnett

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Girl With Child

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: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Maria Abraham
Producer: Luz Agudelo Gipson

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Glamorous Bum

A young, gay Black man escapes the Southside of Chicago in 1978 to join the United States Navy, only to find himself at the center of Manhattan's 1980's art scene as Robert Mapplethorpe's partner and inspiration. Now 67, and an artist himself, Mr. Walls can only look back by doing what he's always done: By looking inward, and forward.

Producers: Adrian Pasdar, James Rasin, Emily Wiedemann

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God & Salsa

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: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Jess Thomas
Writer/Producer: Anayancy Thomas

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Going Nowhere

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

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Golden Poppy

A young mother kidnaps her own daughter down the golden coast while dodging sugar daddies and law enforcement.

Writer/Director/Actor: Hannah Marianetti
Executive Producer: Tchaiko Omawale
Producer: Carissa McElravy

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Good Chance

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: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Tricia Lee

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Good Moment – A World Record Attempt
Paralyzed from the neck down at 26, Ian MacKay never stopped moving, swapping a bicycle for a motorized wheelchair. As he attempts to break the World Record of 173.98 miles traveled in 24 hours by a mouth-controlled wheelchair, he redefines what it means to be a paralyzed athlete and does it with a community of friends and family that are proof it takes a village.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Corbett Jones
Producer: Dominic Bernacchi

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Grace

Grace is Black Southern Gothic narrative short film set in the 1950s about a young girl coming into her womanhood and sexuality.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Natalie Jasmine Harris
Producer: Morgan Powell, Julia Kennelly, Latavia Young
Director of Photography: Tehillah De Castro
Cast: Mikayla Lashae Bartholomew, Jordan Wells, Alexis Cofield, C.L. Simpson, JeVon Blackwell

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Grace

After a confrontation with the man who is both the head of her order and her abuser, a nun must navigate the increasingly harrowing nature of her reality and learn to speak her truth to free herself.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Ercoli Crugnale
Producer: Amy Geist
Director of Photography: Paloma Criollo
Production Designer: Ming Fen Congdon

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Great America

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

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Growing Up: The Urban Farming Revolution
Growing Up: The Urban Farming Revolution uncovers the rise of urban farming and vertical agriculture as ingenious solutions to food security, environmental sustainability, and urban space constraints, showcasing a worldwide movement where cities cultivate their own future by growing fresh produce within their concrete jungles.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Cinematographer: Jacopo Campaiola
Producer: Sara Kaye

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Halcyon Days
A troubled young actor returns home to see his ailing mother after being estranged from his family, but when he walks through the front door, his life magically becomes a sitcom.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer:Derek Manansala
Director:Grace Hanna
Producer: Eduardo Maia

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Hangtime

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

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Happy Birthday Charlie

A road trip drama about a mom who tries to do right by her daughter, but winds up doing everything wrong...

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer/Writer: Nina Martinek
Writer/Producer: Boris Frumin
Composer: Daniel Schnyder

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Happy Pills

A bipolar girl breaks up with her psychiatrist.

Project type: Fiction 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

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: Fiction Feature
Producer: Brian Grigsby
Director: Steven Lloyd Bennett
Producer: Albert Lopez

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