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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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In the desolate New Mexico desert, a solitary coyote, lost in the vastness of his existence, discovers a UFO and an unexpected romance with a Martian, sparking a whimsical journey of self-discovery and intergalactic love.
Director: Chris Sasaki
Producer: Rachelle Federico
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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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In a society of a flying species called Brutts, a father becomes obsessed with helping his wingless son fly and goes to extreme lengths to achieve it. This emotional stop motion cautionary tale explores the themes of father- son separation, self-acceptance, child-like wonder, and the individuality of a loved one.
Director/Producer/Writer: Manuel Del Valle
Producer/Writer: Juan P. Soto, Erika Aldana
Co-Producer: Sam Méndez, Salvador Ríos
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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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A triumph of the human spirit documentary following 3 women who have overcome domestic violence and are paying it forward.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Creator/Executive Producer: Meredith Yinger
Creator/Executive Producer/Director of Photography: Natalie Perez
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Co-stars Ela’ (Clarke Peters) and Legbani (Yolonda Ross) burn up the stage in a new racially fueled Broadway play. But when trust is violated, fact and fiction become blurred as the couple wrestles with what it means to love and succeed as black artists in show business.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer: Yolonda Ross
Executive Producer:Jeffrey Waxman
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Sadie, a 17-year-old ferry deckhand has her day turned upside down when she tries to delete a love-confessing text message before outing herself to the crew.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Lindsey Ryan
Producer: Samantha Scolarici
Co-Producer: Danny Ryan
Executive Producer: Katherine Doyle
Associate Producer: Eden Strassburg
Cinematographer: Ming Hu
Colorist: Elodie Ichter
Cast - Sadie: Pauline Chalamet
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Season of the Witches is a psycho-social crime thriller following three American PhD students volunteering in post-hurricane Puerto Rico who accidentally kill a local playboy in a revenge scheme gone wrong. When the “doing good on the Island” women try to cover up the murder, they are pursued by a local detective with demons of her own, raising the stakes on what it means to be loyal and good.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Deborah Riley Draper
Writer/Producer: Sherri Daye Scott
Executive Producer: Mikki Taylor
Executive Producer: Cheryl Polote-Williamson