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HADLEYVILLE
By zach jansen

In a rough old west town, a young Easterner gets hard lessons in the ways of the world when he falls for an innocent whore and his idealism sparks the wrath of the town's power brokers.

GENRE: WESTERN, DRAMA
Country: UNITED STATES
REPRESENTATION: NONE

walking in iowa
By Alex Murawski
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After her son accidentally drowns, a reclusive photographer moves to Montana to rebuild her life but struggles to reconcile with a secret shame as she falls in love with a kind widower.

GENRE: DRAMA, ROMANCE
Country: United states
REPRESENTATION: NONE

co2
By Katherine O'Mahoney

Following mysterious deaths in the Amazon, an anthropologist's search for answers becomes a race against time when she discovers a mutant plant that inverts photosynthesis and poisons the air with CO2.

GENRE: SCI-FI, THRILLER, DISASTER
Country: United KINGDOM
REPRESENTATION: NONE

MAJOR HACKER'S WAR
By STEVE BLAME

Desperate to buy more time for the Resistance to rebuild before D-Day, a closeted American soldier chosen by the Allies to lead WW2’s first queer spy unit, must face his sexuality and his feelings for his ex-lover when they are sent to France to seduce a gay Nazi who’s decimating French fighters using information from a mole he controls.

GENRE: war, LGBTQ, DRAMA
Country: GERMANY
REPRESENTATION: NONE

MATING
By Rae Shaw

A pensive girl on the edge of puberty strives to protect other young girls from a child predator as she struggles with nightmares of her own burgeoning sexuality.

GENRE: DRAMA, thriller, coming of age, family
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: Allard Cantor, Epicenter

THE guns at cowra
By Vir Srinivas

In World War II, over 1000 Japanese POWs held in Australia will stop at nothing to flee their captors and uphold their fanatical sense of honour. To stop the reckless and fatal escape attempts, the leader of the Japanese soldiers is driven to orchestrate a daring plan for a mass breakout.

GENRE: drama, historical, war
Country: australia
REPRESENTATION: NONE

cambados, nj
By thomas rivera montes

The discovery of a Galician cultural center in Newark, NJ, sets seventeen year-old Jordan on a path to uncover his immigrant roots and family's past, despite his father's commitment to keep it all secret.

GENRE: drama, family
Country: United states
REPRESENTATION: NONE

mestengo
By Theresa Carey

In this high-seas adventure, a young orphan’s life is forever changed when he joins forces with a wild mustang in order to survive untold dangers aboard a Spanish Galleon bound for the New World, forging a magical friendship along the way.

GENRE: action, adventure, family
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE

the VIRGIN
By Trysta A. Bissett

While searching for a missing child, a nun with a troubled past uncovers dark secrets that trigger a series of mysterious deaths at an isolated Catholic orphanage in the 1950s.

GENRE: HORROR, mystery
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE

IMPALA
By Robert Wooldridge

A gay man moving from Dallas to Denver in hopes of reuniting with his ex-lover, enlists the help of a weed dealer to drive him, only to get caught up in the danger when a deal goes bad.

GENRE: drama, comedy, adventure
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE

3 Faces of Hunger & Thirst
By HF Crum

Based on a true story, the 116 minutes leading up to the assassination of a visionary Mexican presidential candidate from the POVs of three would-be assassins.

GENRE: thriller, true crime
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE

the clever girl
By David Carren

It’s love in the time of yellow fever as a young woman fights to save a Texas town from a relentless plague.

GENRE: western, thriller
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE

STILL WATERS
By James Everett

In Virginia 1958, John Shaw admits himself into a Gay Aversion Therapy Program with the hopes of a cure. Undergoing harrowing therapy, John slowly learns that there may be no cure and grapples with whether he can come to terms with this truth or continue along his path of toxic self-denial.

GENRE: coming of age, lgbtq, drama, historical
Country: UNITED kingdom
REPRESENTATION: NONE

PORTLAND
By Michael Weinreb

After a horrific white supremacist murder in 1980s Portland, Oregon, a successful but jaded Jewish attorney joins the case against a powerful racist tied to the crime, and puts his safety and livelihood in danger, while coming to terms with his own tragic family story. Inspired by true events.

GENRE: HISTORICAL DRAMA, LEGAL DRAMA
Country: UNITED STATES
REPRESENTATION: NONE

the invisible boy
By Arun Narayanan
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Faith and family ties are tested in small-town Maryland when a pre-teen girl announces that she’s pregnant – and that the father is her imaginary friend.

GENRE: adult family drama, magical realism
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: Joel Millner, Larchmont Literary Agency

GOING

By Brad Brookes

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At the end of the world, a couple live in an imaginary bubble inside of their camper van, but only one of them knows it. With her entering the early onset of dementia, he struggles to keep them alive without revealing the horrific reality outside.

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GENRE: Post-apocalyptic, relationship-drama

Country: united kingdom

REPRESENTATION: NONE

heartstrings

By J.D. Zelman, Matthew Dushkes

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A lonely spirit inhabiting a third-hand violin helps his new owner, a young boy named Lucas, navigate the struggles of learning the instrument and fitting-in with the school band.

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GENRE: animated, family

Country: united states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

LOUELLA

By Erin Cantelo

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A neglected twelve year old girl runs away from home, only to be picked up by a charming man who emotionally manipulates her into prostitution in the underbelly of Las Vegas.

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GENRE: drama, suspense

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

candle dodgers

By richard scott

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Fifty years after a dystopian nation voted to enforce euthanization of the elderly, Death Days have become a celebrated tradition. Julia, the family’s resident pushover, is given the impossible task of choosing how her mother will die - but she has other plans altogether.

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GENRE: comedy, horror

Country: UNITED kingdom

REPRESENTATION: none

a town dressed in black

By Gregory Fishwick

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In the American Old West, a young woman arrives in a mysterious town where men come to die; her intent, to stop just such a fate befalling a loved one. In confronting the strange goings on of the town, however, she faces not only resistance from its inhabitants but danger from forces that may not be of this world.

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GENRE: Western, Supernatural, Horror

Country: united kingdom

REPRESENTATION: none

sourdough

By Rachel Rios

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During the sweatiest summer in Washington DC's history, a socially awkward receptionist searches for connection and belonging in the transient-filled city-- as well as the District's last box of Monistat.

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GENRE: Comedy, drama

Country: united states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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EON

By Marine Mondelot

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In the rigid society of the 18th century, a low-rank nobleman is game for anything to marry the woman he loves. Even if it means changing gender.

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GENRE: drama, comedy, historical

Country: United kingdom

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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FEAR FAMILY

By Craig Hillman

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What if all the paranormally afflicted households (from Poltergeist, The Amityville Horror, Pet Sematary, etc.) were in fact a single, ill-fated family who can't avoid moving from one nightmarish location to the next? Meet the Whitakers, and witness their latest, jaded (but horror-trope-savvy) attempt to rebuild their life in yet another new home.

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GENRE: comedy, horror

Country: UNITED STATES

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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EN TOURNANT

By Victoria DeMartin

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A country girl turned ballerina finds herself thrust into the cutthroat world of belle époque Paris and the Paris Opera, where ballerinas make their living as secret mistresses to the elite patrons. En Tournant explores the evolution of ballet, then considered lowbrow becoming highbrow, and art versus ambition - asking how far these girls will push themselves in order to survive.

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GENRE: drama, period drama

Country: UNITED STATES

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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COLD HEAT

By John McCloskey

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A 41 year-old murder case just won’t die. Because a cold case detective won’t let it, even as her life spirals out of control.  Meanwhile, the killer, now a family man on the other side of the country, longs to redeem himself while suffering agonies of conscience.

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GENRE: drama, crime, family

Country: united states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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sutton holler

By Tennessee Martin

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When stunt-woman and modern day cowgirl, McClane Thatcher, learns that her twin brother Travis has gone missing, she returns home to Sutton Holler after ten years of absence to uncover the truth about his disappearance. McClane must go toe-to-toe with the dregs of Southern society -- backwoods good ol' boys, corrupt county cops, and the most terrifying of them all... her own family. Will McClane risk revealing the dark secret about why she left all those years ago to save her brother's life?

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GENRE: drama, modern western

Country: united states

REPRESENTATION: sheryl Petersen (APA) / Colleen Washington (Fourth Wall Management)

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AND CALL ME IN THE MORNING

By Richard Willett

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In this limited series based on true events, six very different people around the world in the early 1960s – doctors, scientists, mothers, fathers -- are confronted with the birth of deformed babies and struggle to find out why this has happened, eventually pitting them against the pharmaceutical giant whose prescription medication caused the epidemic.

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GENRE: drama, true story

Country: UNITED states, canada

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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BLOOD AND DREAMS

By Suzanne griffin

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When a brilliant Frankish queen sees her husband's ruthless holy war against the Spanish Muslims spiral into madness, she risks her life and kingdom by secretly allying with a Muslim queen to end the bloodshed.

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GENRE: ADVENTURE, drama

Country: united STATES

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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OBSESSED

By Morani Kornberg

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A Palestinian artist and an Israeli college lecturer are forced to confront their clashing national identities, navigate their careers and relationships, and – above all – cope with their mental health, as they develop an unexpected friendship during OCD group therapy in Downtown L.A.

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GENRE: Drama, Magical Realism

Country: UNITED STATES

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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FAIRVIEW

By MIA VOLTA

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In 1950s Silicon Valley, a programmer-turned-housewife searching for her lost dog befriends her eccentric neighbors and uncovers the evil plans of a local sci-fi club.

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GENRE: Dramedy, mystery, historical

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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