WINNER
Lev Omelchenko // A Song For Echo
“A blooming year long film that documents and collaborates with Phae and her infant Echo, in their day to day lives as they explore their new world through dance.”
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Blanche Akonchong // Mercury Afrograde
"On a crazy day during mercury retrograde, a family’s deepest secrets come to the surface forcing them to realize they are not the model African family."
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Crystal Jin Kim // Threadbeat Dad
“A man working in hospice custodial care and estranged from his family becomes overwhelmed by the idea of an undignified death. He begins to go to bed in a suit every night in case he should die in his sleep and unintentionally finds himself rocketed into ludicrous fame.”
Nasim // ABUELITA
“A Puerto Rican woman must confront her darkest fears before she and her cousin can bring their ailing grandmother home safely.”
Brian Lonano // Boo-Gers!
“A man's nose is haunted and he seeks the help of an Ear, Nose and Throat Exorcist.
Manahar Kumar // Stardust
"An anxious daughter battles her feelings over her father’s sudden death at 30,000 ft, with no one to console her but a pensive poet."
Madison Hatfield & Jonothon Mitchell
// Outlaws
“Best friends married to brothers set out to have children for all the wrong reasons.”
Donald Winzer // Modern Magic: An Evolving Art Form
“Social media and the revealing of tricks should have made magic obsolete, but instead, this ancient art form is more popular than ever with new, diverse performers.”
Nina Lee // Artistic
“Artistic is about 14 year old Imani Thomas, a timid math wiz with autism, who begins selling drugs for her sisters ex boyfriend, Los. But after she makes an innocent yet costly mistake, both of their lives are threatened.”
Anastasia Wilson & Vanita Kalra
// Transmission
“A sci-fi short thriller about two women’s final chance to subvert a fascist government.”