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Every love story is a ghost story...
Writer/Director/Editor: Johnny Coffeen
Production Designer: John Frame
Actors: Alex Essoe, Lou Taylor Pucci
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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
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Standup comedian Fred Le hears the stories of a diverse range of young overseas-born Vietnamese who made their way back to the land that their parents left following the end of the Vietnam War. The Empathizer explores identity and the impact of trauma among Việt Kiều who grew up a generation removed from tragic events of the past.
Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Producer: Fred Le
Co-Director/Cinematographer: Bret Hamilton
Editor/Producer: Hak Lonh
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When a young girl hitchhiking is picked up by a middle-aged man, who ends up taking whom for a ride?
Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Amanda Renee Knox
Producer: Lara Aslanian
Producer: Amanda Renee Knox
Writer: Mira Olsson
Cinematography: Nick Ramsey
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The story of a wildly eccentric 80-year old artist, who followed his creative calling and never looked back.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Ivan Cash
Executive Producer: Mandy Patinkin, Kathryn Grody
Producer: Jake Ewald
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October 1992. A group of law students head to a remote home upstate where a girl disappeared two years earlier.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Jaclyn Bethany
Producer/Executive Producer: C.C. Kellogg
Producer/Executive Producer: Isabelle Chester
Director of Photography: Kenny Suleimanagich
Editor: Soojin Chung
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When a beauty enhancement drug causes a zombie apocalypse in LA, Keesha and Toya debate whether or not they should fight to survive in a world that doesn't appreciate or respect Black women.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Rochée Jeffrey
Producer: Ebony Elaine Hardin
Producer: Takara Joseph
Cinematographer: Phillip Jackson
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A lonesome clown in search of means, understanding and unconditional love joins the circus only to find themselves more lost than ever.
Project Type: Fiction Short
Co-Director/Writer: Silken Weinberg
Co-Director/Camera Operator: Angela Ricciardi
Executive Producers: Angela Ricciardi and Silken Weinberg
Producer: Riley Bradford
Director of Photography: Robert Nachman
Production Designer: Lieyah Dagan
Editor: Manoli Despines
Graphic Design: Chase Shewbridge
Original Score: Sasami Ashworth
Sound Design: Poppy Jean Crawford and Angela Ricciardi
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A mother and son drive towards opposite sides of the Mexico-US border wall to reunite after decades apart.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Francisco Lopez
Producer/Writer: Mitchka Saberi
Producer: Gareth Kelly
Co-Producer: Joey Szalkiewicz
Director of Photography: Alex Gorman
Sound Mixer: Adam Cox