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Two pretentious Upper East Side New Yorkers are blackballed from the local theatre scene and decide their only recourse is to travel to Fargo, ND and start a theatrical revolution.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer: Noam Tomaschoff
Writer/Executive Producer: Chelsea Frei
Producer: Matthew Cooper
Director of Photography: Arlen Konopaki
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In a night of rebellion, 16-year-old Naomi confronts the disturbing truth that lives in her basement, in an effort to break free from her family’s dysfunction.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Nicola Ríos
Producer: Julie Chen, Valeria Benítez
Director of Photography: Ethan Wen
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An overnight stay becomes an eternal nightmare as a couple’s presence at Carver Hill sparks a supernatural force that refuses to release them.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer: Hollis Sherman-Pepe
Producer: Hollis Sherman-Pepe, Jean Louise O'Sullivan, Scott Fleisher
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After an unexpected one night stand, two women at very different stages of their lives, share an even more intimate morning after.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Felicia Pride
Producer: Regina Hoyles
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After finding what he thinks is the perfect couple, a determined twenty year old boy turns to escorting in order to support his terminally ill grandfather.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Actor: Howard Campbell
Producer: Misha Zvagilskiy
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On the eve of her high-school graduation, rebellious teenager Sarah acquires a gun to exact revenge on a man that raped her years prior. Sarah must reconsider her choices when she discovers this man is now the single parent to a baby daughter.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Marfisia Bel
Producer: Esteban Zuluaga
Director of Photography: Brody Anderson
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Wisconsin, one of the most incarcerated states in America, abolished parole in 1998 changing the fate of 3,000 parole eligible inmates in its prison system overnight, sparking an inferno of activism and debate surrounding this population from the high offices of government to the streets of Milwaukee as the state grapples with solutions to curb its alarming rate of mass incarceration.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Keith McQuirter
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Their lives are filled with struggle, triumph, bravery and courage. Experience the stories and songs of everyday heroes who are fighting for their dreams.
Project type: Nonfiction Episodic
Director/Producer/Cinematographer: David Rochkind
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A man in search of a local lake monster finds the real answer he has been looking for.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Bruno Mattos Rubeiz
Producer: Samantha Lori Glass
Co-Producer: Angeline Dimambro, Kristin Kohlmeyer, Roger Glass
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The Bears on Pine Ridge is a documentary film that follows heroic citizens on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, as they battle both a catastrophic youth suicide epidemic and a lawless non-Native border-town that is plaguing the reservation with alcohol addiction.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Noel Bass
Executive Producer: Sonny SkyHawk
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When two filmmakers reconnect, post-injury, they embark on a journey to understand the world of concussions; exploring why traumatic brain injuries (TBI) are globally misunderstood and what happens when radical empathy and understanding the brain leads to healing.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Zoë Salnave
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With unfettered access, The Body Politic follows Baltimore’s idealistic young mayor into office where he puts his personal and political future on the line to save his beloved city from chronic violence.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough
Producer: Dawne Langford
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When an incarcerated pregnant woman goes into labor, she must fight to stay connected to her baby in a system built to keep them apart.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Jahmil Eady
Producer: Selena Leoni
Producer: Reina Higashitani
Cinematographer: Gionatan Tecle
Editor: Zheyu Liang
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An intimate look into the astonishing bond, joyful spirits, and genetically-matched musical mastery of the Canote Twins.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer/Videographer/Editor: Larry Edelman
Associate Editor: Casey Edelman
Videographer: Mark Herlinger
Story Consultant: Joe Herrmann
Photographic and Graphic Specialists: Hilary Hart, Tom Collicott, John Gallagher
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After impulsively shaving off his beard and sidelocks, a young Hasidic man experiences a nightmarish transformation that leads him right back to where he started. Over the course of one painful night, Efrayim Eisenstein will come to realize that it's much easier to shave your beard than to shed who you are.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer: Elazar Fine
Producer: Kale Davidoff
Producer: Jake Bridgman
Director of Photography: Nicholas Bupp
Editor: Danny Gianino
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Over a decade ago, a loving mother of three, Marisol Reina, crossed the Mexico-U.S. border to provide a better life for her family, today she moves back home in hopes to reconnect with the family she once had to leave behind.
Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Writer/Producer/Editor: Ericka de Alexander
Associate Producer/ Post Sound: Trisha Golec
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The Climate Scientists is a documentary series about the compelling work and heroic tactics of experts around the world during a pivotal time, as they try to stop the climate crisis from becoming a catastrophe.
Climate scientists have known for decades that our biosphere is in grave danger. They have warned us, but we haven't listened. Now as climate impacts intensify, we are relying on them to tell us what to do.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Holly Becker
Director/Producer: Carey McKenzie
Executive Producer: Brian Hill
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A day at the beach turns sinister when ten-year-old Lana spies her father's violent interactions with a young woman..
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Mary Ann Anane
Producer: Nicole Palermo, Nneka Mbadugha
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A social media agency gets a new client; a corporation who wants to run for president.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Isabel Steuble-Johnson
Director: Amy H C Wilson
Co-Producer: Léa Barisset
Writer: Emily Carlton
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At the front door of LA's trendiest restaurant, cliches collide as everyone from the staff to the guests want something unattainable from each other.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Adam Guerino
Cinematographer: Matthew Lynn
Cast: Nicole Clifford