Three Sinhalese women in their 30s and their families, unknown to each other, are crossed with one another’s lives by suicide bomb blasts done by Muslim extremists but the tracking down of their lives reveals an entirely different story about them and their connection to the bomb blasts.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Lanka Bandaranayake
Producer: Iranthi Abesinghe
Cinematographer: Chandana Jayasinghe
Editor: Nanda Nandi Jayakody
Makeup Artist: Narada Thotagamuwa

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The Syrian War has impacted the lives of millions,but the media around the crisis rests largely in the hands of those who view it from the outside. As a result, the narratives are theirs. The Hakawati (storyteller, Arabic) Project is a 2 month comprehensive filmmaking lab aiming to foster the creative expression and sharpen the filmmaking tools of those impacted by the Syrian crisis, and offer alternative narratives to the ones mainstream media amplifies.

Project type: Interactive
Co-Founder/Project Director: Sona Tatoyan
Co-Founder: Jennifer Robinson
Producer: Raffi Niziblian
Project Manager: Anna Kamay
Producer of Labs: Nare Mkrtyan
Consultant: Jennifer Kushner

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A Filipino sugar cane workers' strike in Hawai'i in 1924 becomes explosive, leading to the deaths of 16 strikers and four police deputies. A fog of fear and reprisals in its aftermath grips Filipinos, as surviving strikers are arrested, tried and many jailed or deported. The young Higher Wage Movement is crushed during this tumultuous beginnings of Hawaii's labor history. Suppressed for 95 years, this virtually a forgotten history must be told.

Project type: Nonfiction Short
Director/Exectuive Producer: Stephanie J. Castillo
Co-Executive Director: Randall Francisco
Producer/Lead Researcher: Christopher Ballesteros

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Two lonely Angelenos. One apartment complex. And a hole in the ceiling that brings them together.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director: Courtney Karwal
Writer: Rachel Forman
Producer: Paige Klone

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Deep within the Nicaraguan jungle, a mysterious mental disorder appears among isolated indigenous communities. A psychologist sets out on a dangerous journey to find the cause of the illness. Along the way, he witnesses frightening testimonials and symptoms that seem related to acts of violence, rape, and murder by land grabbers.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Felipe Roa Pilar
Producer: Thor Hampus Bank
Producer: Dara Nicole Díaz Ríos
Director of Photography: Jorge Roa Pilar

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Shortly after the Nazi invasion of the Netherlands, a popular Jewish ice cream parlor owner, Ernst Cahn, finds himself targeted by the infamous "Butcher of Lyon," Klaus Barbie. As his world crumbles, The Ice Cream Man must choose between resistance and death...a choice that will reverberate throughout the country. Based on actual events.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Robert Moniot
Producer: Gregor Wilson
Visual Effects Supervisor: Todd Sheridan-Perry

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In a world obsessed with perfection, an eclectic woman realizes that life is better imperfect.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Coxy Chiara Rodoni
Producers: Tre’Shonda Sheffey, Adam Hahn, Dan Punshon Smith
Executive Producers: Coxy Chiara Rodoni, Sanjay Seuranine

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Meet Sharon and Sharon; two women on a mission to rescue hundreds of mistreated guinea pigs. From the UK, LA to Peru follow their humorous and heart-warming adventure as they also set out to discover the forgotten history of these curious creatures in the first major documentary about guinea pigs.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Sharon Walia

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After her best friend’s death, Laura embarks on a journey to uncover the truth about her missing brother. Guided by intuition and the women she meets, Laura embarks on a physical and metaphysical journey through cities, mountains, and jungles, uncovering hidden aspects of reality and confronting secrets and spirits that inhabit those lands.

Director: Juanita Onzaga
Producer: Jorge Forero
Cinematographer: Angello Faccini

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Set in a remote forest where a fringe community keeps "the old ways" alive, a struggling mother is forced to bring her daughter to work in their ancient and taboo family business.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Lindsay Zibach
Producer: Sarah Ullman
Director of Photography: Sara Kinney
Production Designer: Madelyn Wilkime

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Following the eccentric tenants of a kitschy apartment complex in Niagara Falls.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer: Nick Butler

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A gay Holocaust researcher struggles to convince his boyfriend’s grandfather, a Dachau liberator, to reveal his untold story of gay pink triangle survivors. By lifting their voices and the memories of a secretive Holocaust liberator, this film depicts the power of empathy and healing to crush hate.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Patrick Fritz
Producer: O'Shea" Myles
Producer: Kyle Wilson
Director of Photography: Jeff Caroli
Production Designer: Myra Barrera
Editor: Raymundo Archila

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A secluded woman adheres to a strict schedule with the fear that if she breaks her routine she will die, but when a new female butler arrives, she risks it all for the promise of love.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Producer: Andrea Maxwell
Writer/Producer: tammy lynne stoner
Producers: Lindsay Lanzillotta, Theresa Burkhart Gallagher, Diana C. Zollicoffer

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This is a film about a witch pretending to be a babysitter.

Project type: Fiction Short
Director/Writer: Donaldo Prescod
Producer: Rebecca Hamm

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The Maltese Cross follows the inimitable life of a famed motion picture engineer and shows audiences what happens after an immigrant has achieved their so-called American Dream. All While passing the torch to a hopeful new generation.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Co-Director/Producer: Maya Neumeier
Co-Director: Edward Herrera

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Through multiple testimonials, The Naked Gardener showcases sexual misconduct and non-profit mismanagement perpetrated at the Pepperfield Project. This film provides a platform for silenced voices and catalyzes individual and organizational accountability towards a cauterized end to patterns of injustice.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Editor: Ian Carstens
Composer: Jaci Wilkinson

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In an all-Black world where power is the ultimate currency, everyone in Erika is after their share—and then some—but hidden motives, a media conspiracy, and a government takeover threaten to change the face and culture of their nation forever.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Executive Producer: LaQuin Alexander
Executive Producer/Showrunner: Jovel Roystan
Producer: Arneece Maynard
Producer: Hutt Nassar
Cinematographer: Kevin Spence

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The remains of the Hiroshima Dome stands as a symbol of the devastating humanitarian impact of the nuclear bomb. The Nuclear World Project’s goal with the production of the third documentary entitled In Search of Resolution is a continuing exploration into the future, not to predict what will happen, rather to profile individuals and organizations finding new ways to move the world away from the dangers of the most destructive weapon ever invented.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Robert E. Frye

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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Actress: Megan Penn
Director/Writer: Paige Stark
Producer: Kira Vykhodtseva

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As Israel’s war on Gaza intensified, students and faculty across the US mobilized for justice in Palestine. Often mocked and accused of antisemitism, they defied escalating waves of repression and censorship. The film aims to embolden those who refuse to be silenced by this new era of McCarthyism

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Jan Haaken
Co-Director: Jennifer Ruth
Producer: Marlene Eid
Associate Producer and Communications Coordinator: Kevin Foster
Editor: Jeff Harshman

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