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A despairing woman seeks reprieve from her torment by entering an enigmatic competition created by a global AI corporation.
Director/Writer: Brenton Gieser
Producers: Alexa Rocero, Sam Kelly Jr
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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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When Isabelle thrifts a funky jacket, the spirit of Rosa, a bubbly 2000's ghost, comes to life launching them on a journey to discover more about each other, themselves, and the unexpected connection to one another.
Director/Writer: Stephanie Osuna-Hernandez
Producer: Graciela Campos
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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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Manifest is an old fashion story of mystery and suspense, in a Film Noir style -with brushes of surrealism.
Producer: Cecilia Garza-Trevino
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Is it a crime to save 8000 children? Who is Margaret Cole? Farm Girl, Saint or Sinner?
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Yaniv Rokah
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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: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer/Editor: Francesca Di Amico
Producer/Cinematographer: Claudia Unger
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A young blind man goes on the hunt for a man on a dating app - but it appears something might be hunting him.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Jonathan Hammond
Producer: Regina Pigsley
Director of Photography: John Barrett
Actor: Patrick Mayuyu
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During jargon-laden Zoom meetings, a programmer daydreams about an eccentric stranger who lives next door, until a lightbulb moment prompts her to leverage her skills for a shot at love and take her voyeurism outside.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Marissa Goldman
Producer: Jolie Darrow
Actors: David Brown, Jon Daly
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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: Animation
Creator, Director, Executive Producer: Anthony Hand
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After failing to make the LGBTQ soccer team’s roster, Jesus's desire to win his father's approval is eclipsed by a new obsession to beat the mean gays at their own game.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Ahuatl Amaro
Producer: Fanfan Zhou
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Midtown will distill America’s experience of contemporary electoral politics through an observational study of Midtown Manhattan on Election Night 2020.
Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: Eric Fernandez