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

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

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An irreverent widow and former CIA spy kindles an unlikely friendship with her young new neighbor that pushes his relationship with his partner to the breaking point. As they navigate the lives they've lived and confront the secrets of their past, they must find a way to move forward together.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Janice Engel
Producer: James Egan
Writer: Tim Atkin

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

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Ian Lyndon
Producer: Jonathan Biebl
Director of Photography: Lowell A. Meyer

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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: Fiction 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: Nonfiction 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: Fiction 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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Project type: Fiction Short
Co-Writer/Director: Erin Brown Thomas
Co-Writer/Lead Actress: Ciarra Krohne
Producer: Olivia Haller, Elle Shaw
Producer/Cinematographer: Beth Napoli

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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: Nonfiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer: David Rochkind

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

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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: Fiction 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: Fiction 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: Fiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Nick Musleh
Producers: Kristen Uno, Lydia Hunter

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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Karine Benzaria
Producer: Julia Kennelly
Producer: Carlos Valdivia

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

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In this stunningly candid exploration of infidelity, adulterers and victims of unfaithfulness in 40 countries break their silence to compare norms, laws, and taboos while also revealing their own personal escapades.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Michael LaPointe
Producer: Dara Nicole Díaz Ríos

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After being rejected from seemingly everything, a city teenager finds themself in The Woods with an inspiring stranger.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Brielle Brilliant (aka Pavli)
Producer: Lauren Sharifi, Rob Allen
Co-Producer: Carol Hu

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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: Fiction 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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Màiri lives on a remote Scottish island, somewhere outside linear historical time. Her world is stitched together from myth and fantasy, and she walks among seals and sheep, roaming through a wordless dream state of sea, land and sky.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Brenda Davis
Actress/Co-Producer: Emily Allan
Cinematographer/Co-Producer: Alexandra Swati Guild

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On the anniversary of their mother’s death, three estranged sisters get stuck in their family fire station and their decades-long resentments come spilling out.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer:Meg Indurti
Director: Karan Sunil
Producer: Aishwarya Sonar

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