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When a woman plans a romantic evening to win back her emotionally distant boyfriend, the night takes a chilling turn when desire turns into desperation to preserve her fairytale ending.
Director: Tanya Martineau
Writer: Raisa D'Oyley
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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: Nonfiction Feature
Project status: Post Production
Director/Producer: Curtis Matzke
Producer/Cinematographer: Ben Sherman
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A guarded man forms a quiet, transformative bond with his neighbor, discovering that tending to life—plants, people, and memory—can open even the most protected heart
Writer/Director/Producer: Beverly “BJ” Rouse
Producer/First Assistant Director: Lenny Payan
Cinematography Consultant: John Simmons
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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: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Wendi Tang
Producer: Philip Yuzhong Ge
Executive Producer: Rui Mo
Director of Photography: Jay Swuen
Production Designer: Cyrum Aytana Ramirez
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Two brothers inherit the wounds of an absent father, leading to deception, escapism, and a breaking point.
Writer/Directo/Producerr: Trevor Traynor
Director of Photography: Gregg Conde
Editor: Erick Cummings
Executive Producer: C.Y. Lee
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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: Fiction 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.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Sarah Nixon
Producer: Gracie Bellissimo
Cinematographer: Indeana Underhill
Executive Producer: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum
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A filmmaker tries to fix her problems with her evangelical father in a screenplay with a happy ending. When her plan backfires, she quits writing lines, starts to listen, and becomes a character in her own film.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Katy Scoggin
Unit Production Manager: Jamie González
Cinematographers: Spencer Worthley, Sarah Ginsburg, Nathan Truesdell, Michael Rossetti
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Together, we can change the climate story.
Project type: Organization
Forum Director: Lynn Luckow
Judge: Barbara Kopple
Judge: Louis Psihoyos
Producer: Andy Patrick
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When Gidon Lev was just 6 years old, he arrived at the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. When he was 85 years old, he took social media by storm.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Yaniv Rokah
Producer: Vickie Rose Sampson
Executive Producer: Elliot V Kotek, Andy Lewis, Danny Cohen
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A plain-spoken mechanic pulls his son out of school for a surprise trip to the MOMA in New York City. As the weekend progresses, the boy begins to notice his father’s strange behavior, and slowly realizes that they’ve made the trip for an entirely different reason.
Writer/Director: Major Dorfman
Producer: Grace Merriman
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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Khana Tillman
Producer: Adetola Omilana, Coleman Weimer, Harlow Brooks, Tola Omilana
Cinematographer: Miley Luo
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Coached by a group of dedicated police officers, the 2020 Minneapolis North High School football team battles to win a state championship in the midst of the covid pandemic, the death of George Floyd, and the resulting riots that turned the city against the police, setting a community on edge and their neighborhood on fire.
Project type: Nonfiction 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: Fiction 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: Fiction 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: Fiction 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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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Producer/Director/Editor:Harrison Gambelli
Cinematographer: Jesse Moritz
Production Designer: Sydney Gayle Amanuel
Post Sound/Score: Alex Wiederock
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"Franklin" is a dark, psychological drama that explores the fragile nature of the human mind, trauma, and the struggle for redemption. Inspired by themes from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, the film delves into a young man’s internal battle against his haunting past and deteriorating mental health.
Writer/Director/Producer: Nicko Sabado
Director/Producer: Jacques Derosena
Producer: Lailanie Gadia
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Malcolm Jamal Turner, a struggling writer living in Harlem fed up with the neighborhood's changing demographics, concocts a ludicrous scheme to "de-gentrify" it.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Actor: Washington Kirk
Executive Producer: Miles Hodges
Actor: Ron Canada
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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: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Maya Albanese
Producer: Valerie Steinberg
