In the heart of Atlanta, best-selling author, stroke survivor, and wheelchair user Katherine Wolf transforms a 1990s Italian restaurant into Mend, a new coffee & retail concept intentionally built to offer people with disabilities meaningful community and dignified employment.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Directors/Producers: Jaye and Adam Fenderson
Executive Producers: Katherine & Jay Wolf
Director of Photography: John Gardiner

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A young, struggling actor tries joining his friend’s growing YouTube channel and get his new family out of poverty. But he must prove himself when nobody trusts him.

Project type: Fiction Short
Producer: Miguel Contreras, IV
Lead Actor: Branden Mankin

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Restarting The Motor City is a documentary about how post-bankruptcy Detroit is transforming, the innovators and creators who are making it happen, and the obstacles they must overcome to free themselves from the shackles of 20th-century thinking and work together to create a city of the future.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Melissa Dowler
Producer/DP/Editor: Tom Dowler
Executive Producer: Shane Kelly, Ted Serbinski

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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Kyriakos Kanellos
Producer: Annalisa Shoemaker, Liska Ostojic
Cinematographer: Sara Ross-Samko
Editor: Dan Myers

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A young man unexpectedly dies. Guided by a brilliant being of light, he is transported to hell, heaven, and other dimensions in between. He is returned back to life into his body against his will. Though transformed by his encounter with infinite love, he struggles to accept his fateful return to earth and the responsibilities that come with it.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Producer: James Guyer
Producer: Colin Bates
Writer: Kevin Bernhardt
Director: Kevin Brodie
Legal & Sales: George Rush

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Armed with innovative brain imaging technologies and the emerging field of neurolaw, scientists set a course to advocate for evidence-based juvenile criminal policy.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Helena Cortes
Producer: Bria Cole

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A young ex-convict struggling with new freedom pursues redemption at all costs when given a job from his neighbor.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Rashad Frett
Executive Producer: Mark Manson
Producer: Pierre Coleman, Ramfis Myrthil
Cinematographer: Sam Motamedi
Lead Actor: Melvin Mogoli

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After college, Paula's California dreams intertwine with a reunion with her crush Jamie. A casual errand becomes a cathartic journey through the Midwest where a budding romance is transformed by a plot for vengeance.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Josalynn Smith
Producer: Matthew Keene Smith
Casting Director: Lois Drabkin

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Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Triparna Banerjee
Producer: Sue-Ellen Chitunya
Creative Producer: Shivajee Chandrabhushan

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Row of Life is a feature documentary that follows Angela Madsen, a former Marine, 3x Paralympian, and renowned ocean rower, on her attempt to solo row unsupported from LA to Hawaii. Row of Life captures the year before the row and her preparation alongside her wife as well as the journey from LA to Hawaii – up until they unexpectedly lose contact with her.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Soraya Simi
Producer: Nicholas Weissman

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During the Coronavirus pandemic, a man runs to raise awareness for Parkinson's disease to honor his father, enduring the chaotic and profound unexpected impacts on his life.

Creator/Producer/Star: Jamen Spitzer
Director/Writer/Producer: Mike Piccirillo

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Intrusive powers threaten a family’s traditional Mayan sustainable agriculture practices- but more is at risk besides just the land. Told in blended 2d animation and documentary, the destruction of the sacred maize is also the destruction of the spirit of the Mayan people.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Co-Producer: Verónica Wood
Co-Producer: Eduardo Tzaloj
Cinematographer: Eduardo Rosal

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A middle aged virgin and a widow spend their wedding night in an isolated cabin, where they each come out with the secrets they've been hiding. She's not interested in monogamy, and he believes he's a werewolf. Safe Word is an exploration of love, acceptance, and sex positivity in the form of a Lynchian horror-dramedy.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Project status: Development
Producer: Dani Parker
Producer: Mat Miller
Cinematographer: Brandon Woodard
Sound Designer/Production Mixer: Jeramy Parker

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Three Arab women living in modern day Jordan must put their differences aside and work together in order to survive. Tangled in a family drama after Bakri dies, his two wives and his adopted daughter navigate his inheritance, finding out that the only way forward is to try and make peace with each other.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Hanadi Elyan
Producer: Nathan Bennett

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When the perfect woman stumbles upon a dirty chained prisoner in the desert she falls into an unrequited love she kills to control culminating in a life changing revelation.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Olivia Gray
Creative Producer: Emily Timmer
Director of Photography: Martyna Jakimowska
Sound Design: Articulated Sound

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Off the coast of Maine, America’s addiction and environmental crises meet at a crossroads. Female lobsterman Colleen Francke leads a team of women in recovery from alcohol and drug use disorder as they work to create a burgeoning seaweed farm that doubles as Maine’s first all-female sober work program. The Salt Sisters will discover what it takes to lead Maine into a new coastal economy – rehabilitating both the water and themselves along the way.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Heidi Burkey
Producer: Julie Hook
Underwater Photography: Jenny Adler

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Reed, a depressed teenager of divorced parents who wrestles with belonging and bullying begins to find inspiration through filmmaking and connection with his younger half-brother Sam. Utilizing their allyship, and spirit of adventure, the brothers head out on a 1000-mile roadtrip to find Sam’s missing mom.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer: Reed Harkness
Writer: Sam Harkness

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What happens when a boy and his brother go on a road trip in search of their missing mom? Sam Now follows Sam Harkness from age 11 to 36, as his once-average family becomes heartbroken and wracked with questions after his mother suddenly abandons them.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Reed Harkness
Producer/Editor: Jason Reid
Editor: Darren Lund
Co-Producer: Heather Hawksford
Co-Producer: Adam Brown
Executive Producers: Sally Jo Fifer, Lois Vossen, Andy McDonough, Colin Harper Plank, David J. Cornfield

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Sam Miltich burst onto the gypsy jazz scene as a guitar prodigy, touring Europe and playing Lincoln Center while still in high school. Then he started hearing voices. Sam suffered a complete psychotic break and was diagnosed with chronic paranoid schizophrenia. He rebuilds his life and career in the north woods of Minnesota and has come out to tell his story of recovery and bring awareness to mental illness.

Director/Producer: Kristian Berg
Co-Producer: Kay DiMarco

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A serious man tries to avoid catching a deadly laughing plague in a growingly polarized and dystopian society.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Paul Kowalski
Producer: Pin-Chun Liu
Producer: Stephanie Furtun
Producer: Daniel Leighton

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