A gender-fluid god returns to Earth to journey through modern Nigeria- a tumultuous version of what they used to know. Looking to restore gender parity, they follow the lead of the country’s luminaries: Nigerian women.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Oluwaseun Babalola

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A sweeping, epic documentary that plays like a thriller—part mystery, part travelogue, and part journey of discovery—Finding Fioretta is about the obsessive, multi-decade quest of a genealogist to find the 17th century gravestone of his oldest known ancestor, a woman who died in the 1600s in the Jewish ghetto of Venice, Italy.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Matthew Mishory
Producer: Bradford L. Schlei
Producer: Álvaro Fernández
Writer: Rob Levine

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In 1997 Two estranged sisters come together to drive their terminally ill mother across the country for her to end her life.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Kim Putman
Producer: Brooke Gaston

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Project type: Fiction Short
Producer: Gabriela Rodríguez Jácome
Producer: Antonio Donaire

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When parents gather their four adult children over dinner to solidify the family will, the childrens’ self-absorbed agendas send the conversation careening into chaos, leading to a desperate battle of wills to maintain order.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Morgan Gruer
Producer: Sandra Tan, Nicola Smith
Director of Photography: Jared Levy

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A suburban firefighter’s labor union finds itself under a different kind of fire when the Village Mayor announces he’s privatizing their department to save money. What results is a five year long legal battle with the potential to change labor law for the entire country.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Colin C. Hughes
Producer: Caley Shannon
Executive Producer: Michael X. Flores
Cinematographer: Brendan Deane
Editor: JJ Evans

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Intrepid student filmmaker Thomas Reilly-King (affectionately known as TRK) will do anything to complete his first feature film, aptly titled Enduring Destiny. Searching for fame in a production spanning several years, the unflappable writer/director/actor calls in every favor and spends every last dime to realize his vision and bring his hero’s story to the big screen.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Project status: Post Production
Director/Producer: Curtis Matzke
Producer/Cinematographer: Ben Sherman

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Sardonic 28-year-old Jules has been sober for a year, but she can’t stop vomiting fish. Striving to put her life back on track, she must preserve control when a fish enthusiast unexpectedly enters her life.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Wendi Tang
Producer: Philip Yuzhong Ge
Executive Producer: Rui Mo
Director of Photography: Jay Swuen
Production Designer: Cyrum Aytana Ramirez

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Two brothers inherit the wounds of an absent father, leading to deception, escapism, and a breaking point.

Writer/Directo/Producerr: Trevor Traynor
Director of Photography: Gregg Conde
Editor: Erick Cummings
Executive Producer: C.Y. Lee

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A sports drama based on a true story, a coach and a group of eight boys from the Oregon School for the Deaf overcome tremendous odds and defy expectations to win the 1986 Oregon State Track and Field Championship.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Jevon Whetter
Producers: Delbert Whetter, John Eraklis

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When Franny starts a romantic relationship with a girl in her rural town, her newfound freedom and independence threatens to expose her family's dark secret.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director: Sarah Nixon
Producer: Gracie Bellissimo
Cinematographer: Indeana Underhill
Executive Producer: Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum

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A filmmaker tries to fix her problems with her evangelical father in a screenplay with a happy ending. When her plan backfires, she quits writing lines, starts to listen, and becomes a character in her own film.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer/Cinematographer: Katy Scoggin
Unit Production Manager: Jamie González
Cinematographers: Spencer Worthley, Sarah Ginsburg, Nathan Truesdell, Michael Rossetti

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Together, we can change the climate story.

Project type: Organization
Forum Director: Lynn Luckow
Judge: Barbara Kopple
Judge: Louis Psihoyos
Producer: Andy Patrick

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When Gidon Lev was just 6 years old, he arrived at the Nazi concentration camp of Theresienstadt. When he was 85 years old, he took social media by storm.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Producer: Yaniv Rokah
Producer: Vickie Rose Sampson
Executive Producer: Elliot V Kotek, Andy Lewis, Danny Cohen

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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Khana Tillman
Producer: Adetola Omilana, Coleman Weimer, Harlow Brooks, Tola Omilana
Cinematographer: Miley Luo

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Coached by a group of dedicated police officers, the 2020 Minneapolis North High School football team battles to win a state championship in the midst of the covid pandemic, the death of George Floyd, and the resulting riots that turned the city against the police, setting a community on edge and their neighborhood on fire.

Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Jeffrey Williams
Producer/Cinematographer: Jon Cermin

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After vowing never to return, a young woman must come home for Christmas to save her father from trapping himself inside his few remaining memories.

Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: R Cadell Cook
Producer: Shandra L McDonald
Producer/Actress: Melan Perez

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A Black man seeks the assistance of a trademarking agency to prepare for his inevitable encounter with the police.

Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Antonio Harper
Writer/Director/Producer: Abby Burton

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