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Features

no ghosts tonight
By Adele Smaill

In a desperate bid to return home, a young woman forces her way aboard a tiny boat full of refugees who must band together to evade capture and survive a deadly Channel crossing.


GENRE: thriller, drama
Country: australia
REPRESENTATION: NONE

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Features

ICE CREAM DON'T MELT IN ENGLEWOOD
By Richard Ehrenreich
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After a prominent African-American businessman witnesses a fatal police shooting, he must choose between corroborating the police department’s version of events or the painful cost of telling the truth.

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

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Features

hail daisy
By oliver arnoldi

As a teenager prepares for Catholic confirmation in a conservative English fishing village, she confronts two family secrets: her own sexual abuse, and her father’s exploration of his gender identity behind closed doors. Their shared truths forge a powerful bond, but threaten to tear the family apart.

GENRE: DRAMA, COMING OF AGE, LGBTQ+
Country: united kingdom
REPRESENTATION: NONE

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Features

GET THE ELF OUT​
By Catherine McKenzie

When Jimmy Miller loses his job as an elf at Santa’s Village on his 70th birthday, he decides to rob a bank to secure his financial future.

GENRE: drama, heist
Country: canada
REPRESENTATION: Brooke Lindley, Gotham Group

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Features

hidden sparks
By Joseph J Davis

In 1980s Florida, a doctor redefines his Jewish identity as he fights to save a dying neo-Nazi teen, while a tormented skinhead battles with his love for the boy and his failure to protect him.

GENRE: Drama, Medical Drama, LGBTQ+
Country: ireland
REPRESENTATION: none

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Features

FAMILY BUSINESS
By Paul Vogel

Grieving her mother's death, bullied 17-year-old Max moves in with her estranged father to a small town, only to uncover a dark secret: her violent instincts are part of a sinister family legacy.

GENRE: Horror, Slasher, Coming of Age, Dark Comedy
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE

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Features

life $upport
By Noah Edelson

Facing lifelong alimony and financial ruin, Josh offers $250K on Craigslist to anyone who’ll marry his ex-wife before his investor’s deadline.

GENRE: comedy, rom-com, dark comedy
Country: United states
REPRESENTATION: NONE

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Features

Nice eggs
By Sandi Farkas

An attractive teenage girl in a poor New England town learns to break a bad cycle with men by learning about her mother's past.

GENRE: drama, family
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: Allen Fischer, Adriana Alberghetti

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Features

dark mother
By Josh Miller

Desperate for a family, a couple turns to a surrogate for a child, however, complications arise when suspicions fuel a descent into madness.

GENRE: psychological thriller, mystery
Country: canada
REPRESENTATION: NONE

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Features

safe waters
By Stanislav Zalmanov

The intersecting storylines follow a bounty hunter, a peacekeeping soldier, a Greek fisherman and an African refugee, set along the Central Mediterranean migration route.

GENRE: drama, action
Country: estonia
REPRESENTATION: NONE

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Features

the company
By James Rodney

For decades, African Americans worked under a daily barrage of overt racist acts within The Company's LaVergne Tennessee factory. But none more than Charlotte Gray - a happily married woman of twenty-four years, brutally assaulted on the factory floor, thus shattering every aspect of her life as she knew it.

GENRE: drama, true story
Country: united states
REPRESENTATION: NONE

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Features

avenue of regrets
By Rogelio Pineiro

What would you do if you discovered that the violent death of your family seven years ago was not as it had seemed?

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

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Features

black sun
By Rick Rowley

An ambitious but war-scarred junior reporter gets a big break covering a neo-Nazi attack. But when her reporting enables the group’s rise, she must face her nightmares, risk her career, and finally take a stand.

GENRE: drama, thriller
Country: UNITED states
REPRESENTATION: NONE

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Features

the diamond sutra
By paul yung

Haunted by a failed mission, an FBI agent is reassigned to the Art Crimes Team and sent across continents to confront a web of smugglers, forgers and killers to recover the Diamond Sutra, the world’s oldest printed book.


GENRE: action, suspense, thriller
Country: UNITED STATES
REPRESENTATION: NONE

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Features

direct action
By Tor Kristoffersen
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When a teenage environmentalist uncovers plans to open a coal mine in her hometown, she fights tooth and nail to stop it, placing her on a collision course with her father, the police, and the courts.

GENRE: drama, coming of age, environment
Country: united kingdom
REPRESENTATION: none

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TV Pilots

tales of the southern gothic

By Patrick Groff

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FBI Agent Fatima Morgan is coming home after ten long years, but when an urban legend threatens her hometown, she must face the personal demons that caused her to leave.

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GENRE: drama, horror

Country: United states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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TV Pilots

bait

By Christopher Holt

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Internet sleuth Megan Mooney uses herself as bait to lure a killer and find a missing girl. The hunt forces her to confront past wrongs in this intense, twist-filled psychological thriller.

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GENRE: thriller, mystery, dramA

Country: UNITED kingdom

REPRESENTATION: Simon Williamson, SWA

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TV Pilots

lone star three

By Wendy Richardson

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In 1969, three University of Texas students risk felony charges and their educations to fight for birth control access and illegal abortions, leading to the Roe v. Wade case.

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GENRE: drama, historical

Country: UNITED STATES

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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TV Pilots

Heat Lightning

By Brandi Powell

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Jude Gyasi is Formula 1’s legendary hero, but when he suddenly finds himself teammates with his young reckless rival, Jude grapples with the possibility of aging out of the only life he’s ever known.

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GENRE: DRAMA, SPORTS

Country: UNITED STATES

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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TV Pilots

sexually speaking

By Danielle Tjoelker

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In the spring of 1980, Dr. Ruth Westheimer began the radio show that would make her the most famous sex therapist in the world.

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GENRE: DRAMA, COMEDY

Country: united STATES

REPRESENTATION: none

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TV Pilots

Camouflage and Lipstick

By Lawrence Daly

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At the height of the Don't Ask, Don't Tell era, a queer college Army cadet, struggling with his gender identity, must secretly become a drag queen to support his disabled parents.

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GENRE: coming of age, dramedy

Country: united states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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TV Pilots

NAN'S GUIDE TO RETIREMENT

By Teresa Bass

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When an Alzheimer’s diagnosis forces a frustrated grandmother out of her tenured professorship and into a care facility, she rebels by developing an exciting new hobby: serial killing!

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GENRE: black comedy, drama

Country: united STATES, new zealand

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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TV Pilots

women come to judgement

By Nate Bynum

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In 1927, a trailblazing attorney pursues a rape cast that threatens to disturb the status quo of her male-dominated society and town and ruin her family relationships.

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GENRE: Drama, historical

Country: united states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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TV Pilots

summit

By Heidi Lewis, Taylor Lewis

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In the heart of Park City, Utah, a group of winter Paralympic athletes must overcome physical and emotional obstacles as they strive for greatness in the highly competitive world of adaptive sports.

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GENRE: sports, drama

Country: united states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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phantom questions

By Andreas Mortensen

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After his mom's funeral, Benny digs up her body to take it to a haunted house he's found online, hoping the place will reanimate her spirit. But in the spooky house he instead meets the ghost who already haunts it.

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GENRE: horror, comedy

Country: sweden

REPRESENTATION: NONE

a6

By Akevo Jeremy Jenkins

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A soda bottle discovers love inside a vending machine and begins to question its existence. As its relationship with another bottle grows, it must confront the ultimate sacrifice and come to terms with the fleeting nature of life.

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GENRE: animation, romantic fantasy

Country: united states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

burro

By Hannah Lerner

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A nurse's quest for motherhood spirals into a dark journey that challenges her rationality and unveils the depths of her longing.

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GENRE: horror, drama

Country: united states

REPRESENTATION: NONE

yield

By Ned Farr

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A young girl learns the REAL rules of the road from a demented instructor.

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GENRE: comedy

Country: UNITED states

REPRESENTATION: none

defining moment

By Sarantis Raftopoulos

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While recounting the darkest night of his life, a man enters a psychological maze, blurring the lines between past atrocities and present realities.

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GENRE: Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Mystery

Country: GREECE

REPRESENTATION: NONE

noa's place

By Nova Hynes

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Threatened with eviction due to coastal erosion, a mime artist unable to speak about her past takes her landlord on a boat trip to the heart of her trauma.

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GENRE: DRAMA, magical realism

Country: ireland

REPRESENTATION: NONE

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