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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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A departed Ojibwe journeys to the afterlife, while a surviving relative finds resilience in the departed’s footsteps.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Alex Nystrom
Producer: Jeff Walker
Producer: Jeremy Charles
Producer: Lisa Normand
Producer: Rudy Jones
Cinematographer: Mike Maliwanag
Lead Actor: Benny Wayne Sully
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Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Producer/Director/Editor:Harrison Gambelli
Cinematographer: Jesse Moritz
Production Designer: Sydney Gayle Amanuel
Post Sound/Score: Alex Wiederock
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Malcolm Jamal Turner, a struggling writer living in Harlem fed up with the neighborhood's changing demographics, concocts a ludicrous scheme to "de-gentrify" it.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Actor: Washington Kirk
Executive Producer: Miles Hodges
Actor: Ron Canada
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In this surrealistic tragicomedy, Joy, 35, visits an offbeat fertility clinic to freeze her eggs after a series of romantic misadventures…only to discover that she is pregnant.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Maya Albanese
Producer: Valerie Steinberg
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A shadow trail leads into a black hole, where a child disappears every 8 minutes. From The Shadows is a rocky journey through the Indian subcontinent’s most trafficked route, unveiling a sisterhood of survivors and stories of resilience.
Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Producer/Director/Screenwriter: Miriam Chandy Menacherry
DOP: Ranu Ghosh
Co-Producer: Aliya Furniturewala
Co-Producer: Sheena Matheiken
Co-Producer: Anand Ramayya
Co-Producer: Gary Byungseok KAM
Consulting Producer: Claire Aguilar
Consulting Producer: Alysa Nahmias
Consulting Producer: Nilotpal Majumdar
Impact Producer/Screenwriter: Triparna Banerjee
Impact Advisor: Rebecca Lichtenfeld
Impact Advisor: Ragnhild EK
Production Manager: Sharon D’Mello
Researcher: Nandini Dhar
Editor: Irene Dhar Mallik
Associate Editor: Anuja Thakar
Music: Parvathy Baul
Sound Designer: Mohammed Fibin
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Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Co-Director/Director of Photography: Adam Golub
Co-Director/Writer: María Schindler
Editor: Thiago Zanato
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GenXX is an organization whose mission is to raise awareness and create directing opportunities for the generation of talented, experienced, and vetted women who were overlooked - lost between sexism and ageism. Through the organization we will be making multiple films helmed by Gen X women directors.
Project type: Organization
Director/Producer/Writer: Susan Dynner
Director/Producer/Writer: Maria Burton
Director/Producer/Writer: Monique Sorgen
Director/Writer: Nandi Bowe
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After discovering a hidden figure beneath an important nineteenth-century painting, Monica, an art conservator, struggles to restore a potentially objectionable portrait.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Grace Philips
Producer: Kinder Labatt
Associate Producer: Shelby Philips
Director of Photography: Andreas Roalsvig
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A lonely programmer makes a startling discovery that upends her place in the universe.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Project status: Development
Writer/Director: Michael Reisinger
Producers: Adia Stark, Andrew Baird, Michael Reisinger, Molly Burnett
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In a small town in Ecuador, teenager Diana runs away from an institution for troubled girls with her toddler. The goal: to pick up her younger sister from their abusive childhood home and start a new life.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director: Maria Abraham
Producer: Luz Agudelo Gipson
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A grief-stricken therapist determined to help a suicidal teen regains her faith in the process with the help of her Salsa instructor and pastor.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Writer/Director/Producer: Jess Thomas
Writer/Producer: Anayancy Thomas
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A camera team follows a group of wannabe filmmakers who travel to shoot an apocalypse feature on a farm in Kentucky as they desperately eke out meaning in the time of COVID-19.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Actor/Writer: Izzy Shill
Producer/Actor: Felipe Dieppa
Producer/Actor: Diana Irvine
Editor: Drigan Lee
Actor: Geoff Marslett
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A quarterfinalist in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, this drama feature with a sense of humor is about a lone transgender teen who helps a feisty undocumented Asian woman escape deportation, and they form an unlikely friendship that helps them heal their relationships with their own families.
Project type: Fiction Feature
Director/Writer/Producer: Tricia Lee
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Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director: Corbett Jones
Producer: Dominic Bernacchi
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Grace is Black Southern Gothic narrative short film set in the 1950s about a young girl coming into her womanhood and sexuality.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director/Producer: Natalie Jasmine Harris
Producer: Morgan Powell, Julia Kennelly, Latavia Young
Director of Photography: Tehillah De Castro
Cast: Mikayla Lashae Bartholomew, Jordan Wells, Alexis Cofield, C.L. Simpson, JeVon Blackwell
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After a confrontation with the man who is both the head of her order and her abuser, a nun must navigate the increasingly harrowing nature of her reality and learn to speak her truth to free herself.
Project type: Fiction Short
Writer/Director: Ercoli Crugnale
Producer: Amy Geist
Director of Photography: Paloma Criollo
Production Designer: Ming Fen Congdon
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A border vigilante, at the US/Mexico border, detains immigrants crossing illegally. His world is torn apart when an undocumented man and his daughter break into his house.
Project type: Fiction Short
Project status: Post-Production
Director/Writer: Angelita Mendoza
Producer: Alicia Herder
Director of Photography: Victor Capiz
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Project type: Nonfiction Feature
Director/Cinematographer: Jacopo Campaiola
Producer: Sara Kaye