3 Conversations in April
How do you communicate with a loved one who doesn’t use words to communicate, who lives miles away in a group home, and who has been placed in isolation because of Covid 19? This is the filmmaker’s recordings of the first phone calls she’s ever made to her brother - an older man with autism.
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35 Days
A small Ohio town, home to one of the busiest Air Traffic Control facilities, endures the most prolonged federal government shutdown and the harsh winter cold.
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A Poo Film
A few outdoor friends wanted to know if people took going to the bathroom in the outdoors seriously. What they discovered first hand from thru-hikers on the Pacific Crest Trail is both shocking and useful for anyone who ventures out into the wild.
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Above the Troubled Water
Three gay friends from Nigeria -- Bisi, Damoshe & Ade -- are forced to flee their country. Above the Troubled Water follows their stories as they adjust to life in exile.
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All Of Me
Set against the backdrop of New Orleans in the late 1930s, two long-time lovers are caught in a whirlwind when one of them decides to delve deeper into the existential issues of their affair.
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An American Childhood
Collin is a 9 year old boy living a typical American childhood until his life is changed forever by an increasingly common act of violence against a family member. His story adds to the dialogue on racial profiling and discrimination.
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Bandwidth
Frank's important job interview on Zoom goes south due to his "stay at home" Covid precautious family using up his bandwidth.
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Choices
Choices. Thousands of them. We make them everyday. Most seem to be insignificant. Most are. But sometimes it’s the little ones, the small decisions ... the choice to stay, or the choice to not say one small word. The choice to forgive.
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Conversation With A Cigarette
A cat and mouse game ensues when a man faces his greatest enemy … a cigarette.
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Dark Hearts
After living with the disappearance of their only child for months, a couple has no choice but to move on with life. But when ladybugs appear, the mother believes it's a sign her daughter is still alive. Her husband isn't so quick to believe. Both hope for a miracle the next time the phone rings.
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Dead End Drive
During the zombie apocalypse, one survivor finds a dead end that will hopefully lead him to salvation.
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Due to Unforseen Circumstances
A doomer discovers freedom through despair over the course of a fateful night in self-isolation during the COVID-19 crisis. Shot with zero budget entirely in quarantine.
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Empty America
The filming of Empty America was inspired by a desire to find answers to the questions that lived between the gaps of a deadly virus spreading rapidly throughout the world and the toxic political war spreading rapidly throughout America.
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Finding Tyler
In August of 2003, Tyler Johnson was a prized scholar in theoretical physics. Months later he was homeless on the island of Corsica, a fugitive wanted by the FBI. For six years Tyler sent letters to his family, each containing cryptic clues about his condition. Then the letters stopped. His final letter was found at his last known whereabouts along with a journal outlining his years living on the run. Finding Tyler explores the introspective struggle of life as a fugitive.
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Florence & Normandie
This story, in black and white, begins and ends at the intersection of Florence and Normandie in Los Angeles. Frances, a white mother adopts two sons right after her husband Freddy is murdered in the aftermath of the Rodney King riots in 1992. On a mission to honor his memory, Frances raises Florence (black) and Normandie (white), where being each others’ keeper is paramount.
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Forty Years From Now
Forty years after graduation, three High School friends reunite to fulfill a pact to dig up a coffee can they buried that contain predictions and secrets written by their younger selves. The contents spark revelations about their past while potentially changing the course of their futures.
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Grey Sweats
A woman walks us through her personal sexual assault experience and her thoughts surrounding the overall issue.
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Hatshepsut
To bring Egypt into a Golden Age, Pharaoh Hatshepsut, a woman, publicly appeared and fought as a man ... but loved as a woman. This a true tale of love and courage despite everything.
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Hawaii is a Whole Spiritual Vibe
Quantay Peoples completes a full circle by ending up where he started – a borderline spiritual journey.
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Honor Among Thieves
When a planet-hopping cowboy-criminal returns to New Mexico after a heist-gone-wrong, he expects a hero’s welcome. Instead, he finds his mutinous crew have decided he’s no longer in charge.
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How to Get $100 Million
A disenchanted young woman ascribes to the get-rich-quick advice of a self-help guru … only to learn the cost of getting exactly what you want.
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In a Whole New Way
Ensnaring almost four million Americans, probation has evolved from a way to avoid prison to a sanction actually feeding mass incarceration. Supported by neighborhood allies, some people of color set out to change all this, equipped only with cameras.
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Inherited
A young woman inherits a once prized farmhouse. Afraid to pursue the life she wants, she decides to restore it unknowingly embarking on a hopeless pursuit designed to keep her hooked in her present situation.
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Is You Is?
Candice & Peter, a dating couple, will find out at Candice's birthday party if there's going to be a little addition to their twosome.
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Keep Your Head Up, Sweet Pea!
Naddie is in a new school, in a different country, and everything feels foreign. For a 14-year-old girl, stuck between so many worlds, it all seems like too much. However, not so long ago, Naddie loved to dance and wasn't afraid of anything ... at least, that's what her mother tells her. So, is happiness something you lose when you grow up, or do you learn how to adjust with the times and still keep your head held high?
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Kings & Queens
This short, narrative film challenges the widely held belief that "you can never go back" while exploring tough questions of whether it's ever too late to chase a dream.
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Left Alone in the Snow
A woman is trapped in her house at the beginning of a snowstorm. Her neighbor is obsessed with her and seizes the opportunity to fulfill his fantasies.
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Life Cycle
While suffering from insomnia, I began listening to a song that captured my emotions. The harmonious alternations of the guitar strings penetrated my heart and inspired my soul. I decided to experiment and see if I could produce a short film to this beautiful composition ... entirely from stock footage, as this was my only means of making a film at the moment of my inspiration.
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Living Years
Gale Williams had a happy, normal childhood in Santa Monica, California. Then, in 1956, on the eve of his 18th birthday, he crashed his car and became a quadriplegic. In those days people with such severe injuries were only expected to live 10-15 years. To survive, mentally and physically, Gale set his mind to tackling small goals, focusing only on what he was able to do, and through a supportive family and church community, he rebuilt his life. At 82, and most likely the longest living quadriplegic, Gale's life story shows us that there are no limitations to what we can accomplish if we set our minds to it.
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Making Peace
It's 1969 and Janis is stranded on the side of a desolate, desert road, where she's picked up by a stranger, Dennis, who helps her come to terms with the reality of her life, and death.
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Mary Next Door
Meet Mary. She's nearly a century young, with hidden talents and unique outlooks on life.
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Mom
William is a twelve year old boy who lives with his mother and two younger siblings. He arrives home on the last day of school to find his mother dead of a drug overdose. Fearing that the border patrol will come and take him and his siblings away, he decides to hide her death and take on the role of “Mom” to keep his family together. However, he finds out that being an adult isn’t all it's cut out to be.
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Night Encounter
When a resentful, self-centered alcoholic is abandoned by his wife and daughter, a chance encounter with an Uber driver provokes him to face himself.
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No Answer
"No Answer" is about a single father who is forced to leave his daughter at home alone to avoid losing his job ... a decision that may have cost him more than he expected.
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Poolside
Meg Stephens is a 1950s high society housewife who put her dreams aside for her family. She lives in a massive modern home with a golf course view but is left to fend for herself with the aid of alcohol, Librium and Valium, and her own mental stability. While swimming in her upscale, indoor pool, she begins to hear voices.
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Remember Marie?
A man comes face to face with a past he thought could never come back again. He struggles with settling his heart in the midst of an emotional whirlwind of first loves, family and balancing happiness and responsibility.
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Requiem for Black Love
Two fugitive slaves risk their lives for a chance at love and the pursuit of happiness. No matter how far they run, they realize they can never escape the truth.
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Side Effect
Dr. Carrie Holmes has a thriving psychiatry practice but she's off her game. It all comes to a head one busy afternoon. After years of unchecked drug pushing, she comes face to face with her own guilty conscience amid a swirl of mysteriously induced painful side effects from the wonder drug she has been prescribing.
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Soyka
Anna, a young woman from Belarus, tries to survive in New York City while dreaming of a better life. This intimate portrait showcases the experience of the American immigrant: loneliness, fear, happiness, self-realization, and ultimately hope.
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Speck of Dust
All over the world, populations of individuals are no longer deemed necessary. Once needed and now in need, older generations are forced to question their worth while facing unmet socio-emotional needs. Should our journey, ability or worth end with our youth?
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Stray
A spirit metes out vengeance when a young girl ignores her mother's warning about the Pied Piper myth.
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Take Me With You
Set at the end of a humid east coast summer, a close-knit group of family and friends gather to memorialize one of their own. When unspoken feelings and baggage threaten to disrupt their purpose, the family patriarch refocuses the occasion with a surprising ritual.
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The 44 Scarves of Liza Minnelli
A filmmaker purchased 44 of Liza Minnelli’s used scarves at auction and sent them to 43 friends asking them to make images which suggested a “Minnelli metaphor.” This film is the result.
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The Big Nobody
24 hours before a brutal murder, a directionless hipster and her clueless cameraman pregame for the best night of their young lives.
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The Lies We Tell Ourselves
Who's to blame? A brother and sister try to connect but realize they are on opposite sides of a disturbing issue.
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The Man From Boggy Creek
A documentary short that looks at the legacy and influence of independent film director Charles B. Pierce. His film "The Legend of Boggy Creek" helped create the faux-documentary style horror film and inspired a generation of filmmakers. "The Town That Dreaded Sundown" introduced audiences to the masked or hooded killer in films. Despite these accomplishments, Pierce's legacy has largely been ignored.
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The Traveler
On a journey to reach her father in Arizona, Casey's car breaks down. She decides to start walking. Shay Michaels offers her a ride to the nearest motel but it is fully booked so Casey stays at her place. They soon realize that they are more similar than initially thought.
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The Wizard
A brief experimental documentary on the film "The Wizard," Nintendo and 80's and 90's kids.
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Tikkun Olam
“Tikkun Olam” is about an eight-year-old boy in Washington, D.C. who encounters a homeless veteran. The film was inspired by the director's own experiences while living in Washington, D.C., which has the highest homelessness rate in America.
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Tooth
When Calvin is told by his older brother that all the magic in the world lives in his last baby tooth, he comes up with a plan to make sure he never loses it. Can he prevent the inevitable, or will the magic disappear forever?
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Trafficked
At the young age of 13, Anna Davis was enticed on social media by a trafficker using a fake profile. She was drawn into his web, kidnapped and trafficked. She lived a nightmare that she “could not wake up from” until she was rescued. She is now on the witness stand in a court of law, where she tells her story in hopes that there is enough evidence to convict her trafficker and sentence him to jail.
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Under the Same Sky
Women around the globe share wisdom in a global pandemic.
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Upwell
A vision of surfing, embodied by pro surfer Kassia Meador, appears as in a dream and inspires a woman to return to the water after a devastating loss.
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Welcome Home
The power and importance of the role of a single Parent in a child's life . and the outcome of when the punishment does not equal the crime.
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Welcome to Forever
The brilliant designer of smart houses leaves a posthumous surprise for his widow.
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Zap!
An astronomer sharing online backyard observations of the center of our galaxy has a run-in with mosquitoes and a not so trusty bug zapper.
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