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The sun sets too often on pregnant women in Nigeria who face an inescapable reality - to live or die. In Sunset, we follow some women on a journey to remove the veil of Nigeria's dichotomic healthcare system.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Adaku Uwandu
Producer: Ife Olatunji
Cinematographer: Gilliam De La Torre
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Triggered and wanting to escape her past trauma, Naomi, a young Asian American female, falls into the world of blackjack to regain a sense of control but finds herself addicted to the game.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Jess Dang
Producer: Jessica Olthof, Darren Haruo Rae
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Meet Jim. A police cadet fresh out of the academy who gets in over his head when he tries resolving a domestic abuse case outside the legal system. Good luck, Jim.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Quinn Armstrong
Producer: Colin West
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A private peek behind the curtain at award-winning celebrity chef, Susan Feniger, as she tries to create her first solo restaurant in Los Angeles: Susan Feniger’s STREET. The adventure of hunting down delicious street food takes Susan to Southeast Asia, China and then back to Los Angeles where the recipes refuse to behave and the build-out of the new restaurant goes horribly, horribly wrong.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Lisa Lachman
Producer: Lisa Donmall-Reeve
Co-Producer: Myrta Vida
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Swearing is a dramedy short film about GOD, SEX, and GROWING UP.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Mary Bronaugh
Producer: Natalie Galdamez
Leading Role/Executive Producer Sari Arambulo
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MGM stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy are lovers on-screen in 8 blockbuster movies, but studio mogul Louis B. Mayer refuses to allow them to marry off-screen, with tragic results.
Writer: Michael Radford
Producer: Amanda Kiely, Sevier Crespo
Executive Producer: Niels Juul
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Shot over the lead actor’s first year on Testosterone, T follows Em through their journey of gender discovery, and the challenges and joys they face in their romantic relationships, friendships, and family.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Lane Michael Stanley
Producer: Lowell Blank
Executive Producer: Deb Fink
Lead Actor/Story: Mel Glickman
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Through intimate first-hand accounts, refugees describe their near-impossible journeys of hope from their African homes to European cities. Alongside, social and other aid workers provide a framework for challenges new immigrants often face as they attempt integration.
Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Daniel W Smith
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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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Sophia Uehara, a mixed-race filmmaker and Unitarian Universalist, documents her congregation’s upheaval in adopting the 8th Principle, an anti-racist pledge. Interviewing various BIPOC UU leaders and activists across the United States, she explores the challenge of holding a mostly white religious community accountable to its ideals, exposing tensions between belief, allyship, and action.
Director: Sophia Uehara
Producer: Nicole Palermo
Cinematographer: Alexander Lu
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The Alzheimer Code, a groundbreaking documentary, that follows the filmmaker's journey into the heart-wrenching world of Alzheimer's disease, unveiling untold personal stories, scientific revelations, and the quest for a multi-faceted cure. As the lens captures the resilience of those affected and the innovative Bredesen Protocol, the film becomes a beacon of hope, challenging conventions and redefining the narrative surrounding Alzheimer's research.
Director: Marcus Vetter, Sol Tryon
Producer: Erik Felderhof, Ulf Meyer
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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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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