First runner up
By Christine Pfeiffer Stocke
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Seventeen years after losing the Miss Bay City crown the first runner up returns home to shake off her second place status and watch her best friend, who has reigned all this time, finally step down.
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GENRE: COMEDY, ROMANCE
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE
The OLD BUG
By BILL LABONIA
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When the young and sheltered Jonah graduates from high school, he wants a car so he can be a "cool guy" to impress his crush Autumn. After finding out his Grandpa has an old car in the Garage, Jonah will count with the help of his best friend Rex to fix the car and get the girl before he is gone to college.
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GENRE: DRAMA, COMEDY
Country: BRAZIL
REPRESENTATION: NONE
THE separating sickness
By Emily redinbo
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In 1914 Hawaii, as war rages in Europe, an African American chemist defies her envious boss to seek a cure for the leprosy that’s condemned her best friend to life in exile. Based on a true story.
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GENRE: DRAMA, FAMILY, historical
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE
W. SMITH
By Sophie Hexter
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A coming of age historical drama about a transgender farmhand who goes on to become one of the country's greatest horsemen. When his birth gender is accidentally uncovered, however, Smith is forced to take his employer to court, fighting for equal rights and fair pay, and a new Australian hero is born.
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GENRE: Historical drama
Country: AUSTRALIA
REPRESENTATION: NONE
THE NARRATOR
By Julia trofimova
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Finn and Tera—two miserable employees at Onemind Corp.—are given the opportunity to have their own “narrators”: individuals who follow them around and express their innermost thoughts. While the narrators drastically improve their lives at first, Finn and Tera begin to realize there may be a much more sinister plot at play.
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GENRE: COMEDY, dark comedy
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE
OUTCAST
By Sarah bellwood
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An orphaned Roman youth is banished by the British tribe who raised him from birth. Marked by his Celtic tattoos, kidnapped and enslaved in the cynical, sophisticated Roman world, he must fight to survive in his quest for freedom and a place to belong.
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GENRE: ACTION, ADVENTURE, DRAMA
Country: United states
REPRESENTATION: NONE
MAIDENS OF BABYLON
By Tony Grady martin
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The remarkable true story behind W.T. Stead, an early pioneer of investigative journalism and suffragette Josephine Butler, who risked everything to expose the shameful trafficking of women in Victorian-era London. Inspired by W.T. Stead's highly controversial newspaper articles, "The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon."
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GENRE: period drama, POLITICAL DRAMA
Country: United states, UNITED KINGDOM
REPRESENTATION: NONE
the viciouses
By adam simmel
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Infamous rock n' roll couple Sid and Nancy, now clean of drugs and in their 60’s, take in a wayward, 16-year-old Marilyn Monroe impersonator just as the couple begins undergoing a crisis of their own.
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GENRE: COMEDY, dRAMA
Country: UNITED STATES
REPRESENTATION: NONE
THE SINS OF THE MANY
By ELLERY BOCK
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Two contrasting detectives from neighboring jurisdictions must work together to solve a gruesome series of decapitations tied to a backwoods insane asylum that was shuttered 30 years prior.
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GENRE: psychological THRILLER, crime
Country: australia
REPRESENTATION: NONE
Alec Guinness: A Kind of Victory
By bill baxter
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Alec Guinness is born fatherless to an alcoholic mother. Struggling in early life, he lands a small part in Hamlet at the Old Vic Theater. The play is marred by an aggressive Laurence Olivier and they cannot finish a rehearsal. The Company travels to Denmark for a performance at Elsinore Castle, Shakespeare’s setting for the play. The weather, workers and nature are against them. A funny, thoughtful and true story of a gentle and shy man overcoming impossible odds to become one of the world's most successful actors.
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GENRE: DRAMA, comING OF AGE
Country: CANADA
REPRESENTATION: NONE
BLOOD LAW
By Keith and Cassie Hayasaka
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Orphaned after his father is murdered in the Rock Springs Massacre of 1885, Bo helps his adopted family of sheep ranchers fight for their land in bloody range wars while struggling with his identity and reigniting a dangerous love affair.
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GENRE: WESTERN, dRAMA, HISTORICAL
Country: UNITED STATES
REPRESENTATION: NONE
PONTUS
By nicolas diaz
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Vanessa, the sole survivor in her family after a dog rescue gone wrong turns into a tragic drowning accident, grapples with grief, blame, and struggles to connect with her new legal guardian, Uncle Daniel, who is determined to get through their pain, together.
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GENRE: DRAMA
Country: United states
REPRESENTATION: NONE
DAMAGE CONTROL
By Stephen Hoover
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DAMAGE CONTROL is an edgy, animated comedy for adults about a public relations firm specializing in high profile disasters -- from oil spills to celebrity drunken rages. Led by type A+ personality Laird Parks, a diverse team of P.R. Specialists take on stories from tomorrow headlines and do DAMAGE CONTROL. The spin is in.
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GENRE: COMEDY
Country: UNITED STATES
REPRESENTATION: NONE
7 minutes and about 20 seconds
By Marina Bendocchi Alves
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A pair of teenagers rocked by the trauma of seeing someone they loved murdered during a school shooting cope in wildly different ways, trying to navigate the enmity that existed before the killing.
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GENRE: Drama, YOUNG ADULT
Country: GERMANY, BRAZIL
REPRESENTATION: NONE
FEEDING THE ELEPHANT
By William Dobson
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A collage of interconnected characters collide in violent and troubling ways as a corrupt lawyer operates an elaborate money laundering scheme at the heart of the British legal system.
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GENRE: DRAMA, CRIME
Country: united KINGDOM
REPRESENTATION: none
I.Am.RANI
By Sathish Easwaralingam
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After being raped by her own teacher, a high school girl becomes inspired by a world-wide movement of women retaliating against their abusers and decides to take action herself, unbeknownst to her a sinister conspiracy will further call her to action.
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GENRE: drama, THRILLER, SUSPENSE
Country: UNITED KINGDOM
REPRESENTATION: NONE
ANGELS OF WAR
By Natalie Bergman, Victoria Rau
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The untold true story of a small group of American nurses trapped behind enemy lines for over three difficult years in the Philippines during World War II. Follow their heroism, relationships, endurance and survival as they fight to save lives and survive.
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GENRE: drama, HISTORICAL, ROMANCE
Country: UNITED STATES
REPRESENTATION: NONE
Don't Change Your Husband
By John McCloskey
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Three married couples are best friends. All six of them are successful professionals in their early 30s. They decide to switch partners, switching beds. They are led into this by a dreamy philosophy of erotic love that gains a cult-like hold over them. What they learn is how one person changes another person, through attachment, need, expectation, betrayal.
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