Films
Title: 00:05’01
Director: Brian Winterton
Running Time: 6 minutes
Genres: Sci-Fi, Fantasy
Country: USA

A scenic work of art about nature, human nature, and the unknown, 00:05’01 is set in an apocalyptic future where life is scarce but plant life is plentiful. The story chronicles one Future Human (Melissa Frank) who begins to question her routine way of life, a life controlled by her watch.

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Title: 24 Frames
Director: Brad Pattullo
Running Time: 18 minutes
Genres: Comedy, Horror, Post Modern, Spoof, Mockumentary, Satire
Country: USA

24 Frames is a stop-motion animated black comedy mockumentary about a stop-motion animated film production at an art college in the southern U.S. The crew, which consists mainly of ambitious animation students, aspires to adapt a children's book into an animated film to impress the school's president, who also happens to be the director's mother-in-law. Incompetence, artistic differences, and a series of grisly mishaps soon cause the production to spiral out of control as the would-be filmmakers struggle to finish the project.

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Title: 27,000 Days
Director: Naveen Singh
Running Time: 10 minutes
Genres: Alternative, Drama, Avant-garde, Art, Spiritual
Country: USA

Alone and on the verge of death, an ailing man writes a final letter to his estranged son – a burning confessional. As he puts words to paper, the man’s advancing illness forces his mind to confront intense and harrowing moments from his fleeting life.

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Film
Title: 761st
Director:Pete Chatmon
Running Time: 74 minutes
Genres: Documentary
Country: USA

The 761st Tank Battalion was activated on April 1, 1942, at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana and deployed to Europe, landing at Omaha Beach in France on October 10, 1944. Over the course of 183 days of continual fighting (including action in the Battle of the Bulge) the "Black Panthers" became the first African-American armored unit to enter combat. With the motto "Come Out Fighting!" they faced racism at home and death overseas in a war for many freedoms they did not enjoy in America. This is their story. 

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Title: Against the Wind
Director: Dan Masucci
Running Time: 9 minutes
Genres: Drama
Country: USA

In the twilight of his life, Ned reflects on his past, his remaining years, and discovers how his role in life has changed. Against the Wind is a sentimental film that shows the old truly are young at heart and that universal emotions live within us all.

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Title: Alicja Wonderland
Director: Martin Gauvreau
Running Time: 20 minutes
Genres: Drama, Thriller, Independent
Country: Poland, United Kingdom

So he sat on, with closed eyes, and half believed himself with Alicja, though he knew he had but to open them again, and all would change to dull reality -- the grass would be only rustling in the wind, and the pool rippling to the waving of the reeds.

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Title: Blowing Smoke
Director: William Kaufman
Running Time: 26 minutes
Genres: Educational, Reality
Country: USA

In today's world it is very common to get mixed messages on the issue of marijuana. 'Blowing Smoke' uncovers some harmful truths about marijuana by dealing with the people who have suffered the pain and tragedy of addiction. It is important to inform high school and college kids that they live in a world where drugs are available, and taking advantage of that proximity, even just once, can have devastating consequences.

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Title: Catharsis
Director: Daniel Sanchez Chamorro
Running Time: 10 minutes
Genres: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain

A man and a woman talk about their relationship in two interviews. They seem to be arguing very strong, but in the end they are just trying to understand each other.

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Title: Dead Moments
Director: James Sharpe
Running Time: 7 minutes
Genres: Alternative, Drama, Independent
Country: United Kingdom

Kate and Joe are spending a summer’s afternoon under the abandoned railway bridge; their conversation leads them both to question how they choose to document their lives. Would their lives be different if they chose to just live the moments rather than hide behind their documentation?

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Title: Die Lüge (The Lie)
Director: Herbert Fehrmann
Running Time: 12 minutes
Genres: Drama
Country: Germany

The story of a photographer whose past catches up with him on his first Berlin visit in 50 years. While developing his photographs he discovers something extraordinary, and is greeted by a ghost who reproaches the old man for his betrayal.

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Title: Driving Lesson, A
Director: C. Fraser Press
Running Time: 24 minutes
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Coming of Age, Independent
Country: USA

It is a lovely autumn day and Leslie has taken her daughter Brooke out for a driving lesson on a quiet country road. Unfortunately Leslie is a psychologist unable to pry herself away from her cell phone and the needy patients on the other end, and Brooke is a teenager unable to pry herself away from her own adolescent exasperation. Typical mother daughter friction, until, Brooke hits a small animal, Leslie's patient begins talking suicide and silence is broken on the quiet country road when an elderly couple come barreling along in their Station Wagon.

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Title: English Language (with English Subtitles)
Director: Tim Piester
Running Time: 19 minutes
Genres: Alternative, Comedy, Drama, Independent, Romantic Comedy, Dramedy
Country: United Kingdom

A tenderly offbeat comedy about love and communication... or the lack thereof. Meet Mulligan (a typically English man), Esther (his Scandinavian girlfriend), and the on-screen subtitles that find themselves along for the ride. Special Presentation / Panel Discussion

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Title: Ferry Tales
Director: Katja Esson
Running Time: 40 minutes
Genres: Documentary
Country: USA

Nominated for an Academy Award ® 2004 For hundreds of commuters, it is just another routine trip from the quiet of Staten Island into the frenzy of Manhattan. Some spend the half hour traveling across New York Harbor anxiously waiting, suffering through the boat's motions and sipping their third cup of coffee while burying their heads in the newspapers. Some attempt a hopeless nap. But not all. A few use up every precious minute of the ride preparing themselves in a very exclusive place: The Staten Island Ferry Powder Room. Ferry Tales is a sneak peek into a culture that only happens 30 minutes a day in the women's bathroom….a place where no men are allowed. As they put on their make-up, they are transformed from housewives to businesswomen, from mothers to lawyers, from sisters to socialites. The women who step inside this room leave their race, social status and net worth at the door, sharing their most intimate secrets, solving each other’s problems or just dishing up the latest ferry gossip. What starts as funny anecdotes turns into a deep and moving account as these women, one by one, draw each other out, solve one another's problems and dish up the latest ferry gossip. This is a story of the vibrant life that goes unnoticed in a place that goes ignored.

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Title: First Memories
Director: Soo Hee Han
Running Time: 4 minutes
Genres: Nature, Fantasy, Children Animation, Art
Country: USA

A baby drops its bottle on the street, spilling milk all over the ground. At the same moment, a woman running from the opposite direction steps in the puddle, sinking deep within. The woman is thrown into confusion as she is enveloped into the other side.

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Title: The Gift Wrapper
Director: Daniela De Carlo
Running Time: 8 minutes
Genres: Independent, Romantic Comedy
Country: USA

A gift wrapper works hard over the busy Holiday Season. A loyal customer keeps on coming back. There is a precious gift yet to be unwrapped down their path: Right before the holiday, when the snow starts falling and the bells go jingling, they might fall in love.

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Title: Horsepower
Director: Joel Moffett
Running Time: 17 minutes
Genres: Dramedy, Gay/Lesbian
Country: USA

Horsepower is the story of Murray Meadows, a middle aged closeted man who hides from his life as a straight-laced professional automobile critic by immersing himself in the seedy side of the internet. This works for Murray until Harold, his eccentric gay boss, tries to help. In rejecting Harold’s advances, Murray triggers a bizarre breakdown in his life- and in his precious automobile. In the end, when all is lost, Murray discovers help from an unlikely source.

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Title: Horton Hears a Who
Director: Jimmy Hayward, Steve Martino
Running Time: 86 minutes
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Animated
Country: USA

One day, Horton the elephant hears a cry from help coming from a speck of dust. Even though he can't see anyone on the speck, he decides to help it. As it turns out, the speck of dust is home to the Whos, who live in their city of Whoville. Horton agrees to help protect the Whos and their home, but this gives him nothing but torment from his neighbors, who refuse to believe that anything could survive on the speck. Still, Horton stands by the motto that, "After all, a person is a person, no matter how small."

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Title: Hot Dog
Director: Bill Plympton
Running Time: 6 minutes
Genres: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA

This is the third in the DOG series. In this episode our plucky hero joins the fire company to save the world from house fires and gain his affection he so richly deserves. Typically, the results never turn out the way he planned.

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Title: The Indian
Director: James R. Gorrie
Running Time: 90 minutes
Genres: Drama, Coming of Age, Independent
Country: USA

Skip, a successful movie producer who enjoys the hedonistic trappings of Hollywood, discovers his drug use has left him with an advanced case of hepatitis-C. Informed that “any grown children” are his best shot for a transplant, Skip returns home to face Danny, his angry, troubled son, Carrie, his estranged sister, and the emotional and financial wreckage his past selfish actions have brought to their lives.

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Title: Love
Director: Joey Piscopo
Running Time: 9 minutes
Genres: Drama
Country: USA

John and Valerie’s anniversary does not go according to plan.

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Title: Manny
Director: Kyoung Park
Running Time: 2 minutes
Genres: Family, Romance, Fantasy, Children Animation
Country: USA

Manny is a two-minute 3D animation set in 1920’s black and white silent film style. The story is about a wooden doll named Manny, a Porcelain doll, and a Flapper doll. The Porcelain doll rejects Manny for being a simple wooden doll, but the Flapper doll likes him for who he is.

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Title: Mercenary
Director: Jason Markarian & John Mirabella
Running Time: 11 minutes
Genres: Drama, Romance
Country: USA

Love drives people to do crazy things- things they would never have imagined themselves capable of doing. One man, spurned by his true love, will take extraordinary measures to ensure that she will never again be with anyone else.

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Title: Minotauro
Director: Alejandro Cano
Running Time: 101 minutes
Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Independent, Magical Realism, Action/Adventure
Country: Mexico, USA

Judas and Sara are twins, separated as children because of their mother's vision of a future when Judas would betray her. They're reunited, years later, when Judas journeys to Mexico to stop an imminent threat to his sister, entangling them in the conflict of old family mysteries, binds of their past, and need of redemption.

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Title: More Shoes
Director: Lee Kazimir
Running Time: 75 minutes
Genres: Documentary, Road-trip
Country: Belgium, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, USA, Ukraine

Struggling filmmaker Lee Kazimir reads some advice from Werner Herzog, who said that filmmakers should skip film school and instead 'make a journey alone, on foot, for a distance of 5,000 kilometers; let's say from Madrid to Kiev.'

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Title: Most (The Bridge)
Director: Haris Bilajbegovic
Running Time: 12 minutes
Genres: War/Peace, Period/Historical, Docu-Drama, Culture
Country: Austria

Between now and forever lies...the bridge. A powerful and moving film about a man who learns the true meaning of sacrifice. Nominated for an Academy Award® for live action short, Most is the story of an ordinary man forced to make an extraordinary decision. Shot entirely on location in the Czech Republic and Poland, Most is a beautiful yet edgy film that draws you in and grabs your heart.

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Title: Most látszom, most nem látszom (Now You See Me, Now You Don't)
Director: Attila Szasz
Running Time: 30 minutes
Genres: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary

It seemed like an ordinary day. Dad is experimenting in the lab; Mom is at home boiling water, while their six-year-old son, Alex, is playing around her. But this day is different. This day Dad brings something home from the lab. And the next morning...Alex becomes invisible.

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Title: Mugs
Director: Ronnie Cramer
Running Time: 4 minutes
Genres: Alternative, Avant-garde
Country: USA

One hundred of your favorite celebrity mug shots morph from one to the next. The minimalist, trance-like soundtrack adds to the hypnotic effect.

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Title: Nevando Voy (Under the Snow)
Director: Candela Figueira, Maitena Muruzabal
Running Time: 95 minutes
Genres: Drama, Dramedy
Country: Spain

With the winter season fast approaching and orders piling up in the snow chain division, supervisor Javier and shy assistant Jairo are joined by temporary workers, motherly Karmentxu and feisty Angela. For long, frigid days they each pack chains in silence until Angela starts breaking the rules - then work becomes a game and their cold, gray building a playground. This newfound camaraderie challenges them to look at what they demand of their lives and of each other, but this world only survives thanks to the continuous snow. What is going to happen when the snow ceases to fall?

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Title: The Objective
Director: Daniel Myrick
Running Time: 90 minutes
Genres: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA

Afghanistan.  November 2001.  Two months after the attacks on the World Trade Center.  A Highly trained special forces team is sent into the Afghanistan desert to make contact with a man known as “Mohammed Aban”.  Instead, they find something else…something that even their elite training hasn’t prepared them for.


From the acclaimed director of “The Blair Witch Project”, “The Objective” follows Ben Keynes (Jonas Ball), a CIA Operative allegedly sent to pave the way for success in the war in Afghanistan.  Part covert military operation, part personal journey.  Ben leads his assigned team into one of the most uninhabitable and isolated regions on the planet.

As the situation rapidly begins to disintegrate, each member of the team finds themselves asking the same question: who is the real enemy?

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Title: Objects in Mirror Are Closer Than They Appear
Director: José Angel Lázaro
Running Time: 15 minutes
Genres: Drama
Country: Spain

Amidst the multiple layers of the city, two men are waiting for something to happen. One of them doesn’t know what to expect, the other one knows that what he is expecting will not take place.

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Title: The Outlaw Emmett Deemus
Director: Stephan Spak-Fleet
Running Time: 8 minutes
Genres: Road Trip, Spoof
Country: USA

A retired elderly gentleman (Emmett Deemus) wants to live the life of an outlaw biker. He's just bought a funky old '57 BMW motorcycle with a sidecar, '...and jumped into the wind to protect road pilgrims, fight the man, and make some news'. After picking up a lady who's car has run out of gas on a deserted country road, he tries to impress her with his 'outlaw creeds' on the way to a gas station. As if calling his bluff, they're attacked by a gang of Real Outlaw Bikers -- and, with the help of The Lady, The Old Guy wins...probably.

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Title: Path
Director: E.S. Frushtick
Running Time: 18 minutes
Genres: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA

A Manhattan / Hoboken love story - The tale of a Manhattan Guy who must decide if it's worth staying in his relationship even if it means traveling to New Jersey.

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Title: Patience
Director: Robert Hackett
Running Time: 7 minutes
Genres: Family, Drama, Independent
Country: United Kingdom

Patience is a moving story set on a hospital ward and focuses on the relationship between two old women. In beds next to each other but separated by a screen, Constance has a view of a park and Vera listens to descriptions of life on the outside. Although entertained, Vera becomes envious.

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Title: Porque Hay Cosas Que Nunca Se Olvidan (Because There Are Things You Never Forget…)
Director: Lucas M. Figueroa
Running Time: 13 minutes
Genres: Coming of Age, Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain

Naples, Italy, 1950. Four friends are playing soccer out on the street when their ball is accidentally kicked into the evil old lady's yard. They'll never play with their ball again…and for that the revenge will be deadly.

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Title: Red Princess Blues Animated
Director: Dan Cregan
Running Time: 8 minutes
Genres: Drama, Cult, Anime, Action/Adventure
Country: USA

The short is about “Princess,” a 12 year old girl little girl who finds herself in a strange country looking for her father. She is taken in by a unique looking man who goes by Nino. The short film is completely from the perspective of Princess and what she is going through. She soon discovers the “Book of Violence” and slowly begins her journey that one day will lead to vengeance.

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Title: Rising Tide
Director: George Valencia
Running Time: 38 minutes
Genres: Documentary
Country: USA

A Rising Tide is the story of Bill and Bob Healey, who in 1963 set out to find their fortune in the real estate market. Through fate, the purchase of a parcel of land next to the failing Petersen Viking Boat Works, in New Gretna, NJ landed a prime parcel of water front property and an opportunity to take control of a bankrupt boat builder. Success followed and by 1989, Viking Yachts was the number one sport fishing yacht in the USA employing 1400 people and housed in two manufacturing locations. Then in 1990 came the Luxury Tax which changed everything.

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Title: Roots: Unknown
Director: Zara Phillips
Running Time: 30 minutes
Genres: Family, Educational
Country: USA, United Kingdom

Roots: Unknown is a 30-minute documentary examining the lifelong impact of adoption. This educational and informative film focuses on the emotional influence adoption has on the adoptee and their families. Interviews and sound bites with adult adoptees, their families and children are mixed with artistic images of their art and creative expression.

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Title: Saturday Morning
Director: Rob Greenberg
Running Time: 81 minutes
Genres: Comedy
Country: USA

Wes Selman (Joey Piscopo) a mild-mannered ‘suit’ is forced to leave his house at a time when he (and most of the world) is normally sleeping. Upon stepping outside, he discovers that on Saturday Mornings, for a two-hour window from 6AM to 8AM, the world becomes a 'utopia.' During this time, Wes can achieve nearly anything, including winning the affections of the woman of his dreams, Lisa Mangione. However, once this window has passed, he finds that Lisa is no longer attracted. And so, with the help of his best friend, Frankie Cicotelli (Louis Mandylor), Wes attempts to concoct a plan to carry their romance into the rest of the week. However, the true key, Wes learns, lies with a mysterious stranger (George Wendt).

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Title: Sexy Thing
Director: Denie Pentecost
Running Time: 14 minutes
Genres: Drama, Coming of Age
Country: Australia

On a dry suburban day, a 12 year old is caught between the conflicting worlds of family, friendship and imagination. Struggling to endure a confusing love, and longing simply to be seen, the child survives by transforming pain into beauty.

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Title: Sick
Director: Mike Rymer
Running Time: 16 minutes
Genres: Drama
Country: United Kingdom

In the aftermath of his wife’s death, Brian (55) finds it impossible to cope with supporting his mentally ill daughter (Amanda), and caring for her child. When Brian gives his grandson over to social care, Amanda attempts to snatch him back, but comes quickly to realize that she can’t care for him either. A grief stricken Brian, intolerant to his daughter’s depression, severs her financial support. These events bring Amanda to her lowest ebb. Father and daughter don’t speak for 15 years, after which time Brian himself has succumbed to depression. The relationship between father and daughter seems hopeless. That is until Amanda, who is now paying for her father’s treatment, finds the courage to visit him.

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Title: Vestigial Window
Director: Charles Scandura
Running Time: 23 minutes
Genres: Sci-Fi Fantasy, Supernatural, Art
Country: USA

Driven by love Daniel, a dying scientist constructs an instrument that tunes into the frequency of human consciousness. He believes that this is achievable by using algorithms derived from the coils found in the bloodstream (DNA). With a deep respect for his passionate belief, his soul-mate Sarah follows his instructions in an effort to bridge the gap between life and death. When they meet in the astral plane they both realize that they are breaching the barrier of death. But the mystery of whether consciousness is in fact measurable becomes even more daunting to Daniel and for Sarah consciousness is the only thing that can save her from the lure of death's dream.

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Title: Voor een paar knikkers meer (For a Few Marbles More)
Director: Jelmar Hufen
Running Time: 11 minutes
Genres: Family, Drama, Children Live Action
Country: Netherlands

Four ten–year-olds are kicked out of their favorite playground by two aggressive drunkards. When they realize their parents are not going to help them, there’s only one solution. They have to find a way to get the toughest boy in the neighborhood to help them.

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Title: Widow’s Cure
Director: Dorian Ribeiro
Running Time: 10 minutes
Genres: Children Live Action, Coming of Age
Country: Australia

Ten year old Anna is given the unusual birthday gift of a story telling woman, who reveals to her the secrets of her grandmother's past.

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Title: Zoologic
Director: Nicole Mitchell
Running Time: 4 minutes
Genres: Family, Comedy, Children Animation
Country: USA

A fussy zookeeper maintains strict order in his zoo by arranging the animals to his liking. His absolute rule begins to falter, though, when he encounters a fat little penguin; a resident who refuses to be shaped to fit.

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Screenplays
Title: 1957
Screenplay by: William Freda

'1957' is a warm, lighthearted story about five young men from the Newark, New Jersey area who aspire to being the next great pop group. We spend the summer of 1957 with the group as they work, get married, hang out, and play their music. They are forever looking for that 'big break' to release them from their ordinary anonymous existence, no matter how hard the music business tries to disillusion them. They are all somewhat eccentric individuals but completely united as a band. Their big break comes when they are booked at Skinny Damato's famous 500 Club in Atlantic City, N.J.

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Title: In Love, In Death
Screenplay by: O.D. McConnell

One man’s violent past prompts him to question his existence, and seek the love of a simple woman, in a simple country.

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Title: The Knuckleballer
Screenplay by: Michael Murphy

An obscure minor leaguer given no chance to play again overcomes his war injuries to be a rookie sensation and knuckleball Cleveland to a shot at the 1948 American League pennant. The true story of Gene 'Lefty' Bearden.

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Title: Lost Kids and the Unwritten Language
Screenplay by: Felipe Cagno

A group of kids make a living on the streets until they mysteriously travel to a fantasy world. They must struggle and follow the hints in a Notebook to find the way home and in the process bring themselves together as a family.

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Title: Miller's Pond
Screenplay by: Max Forstater

A young man, looking for meaning in his life, uncovers a mysterious artifact from his grandfather's barn and is thrust into the center of a small town conspiracy.

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Title: The Swimmer Manuscript
Screenplay by: Joseph Kenny

Set against the spectacular backdrop of the Great Smoky Mountains, in Tennessee and North Carolina, The Swimmer Manuscript is a coming of age story based on the legends of the region and the sacred myths of the Cherokee. It pits a young, untested conjurer named Swimmer against the Widderman and a cadre of demon witches, as Swimmer seeks to avenge the death of his father and learns to utilize the powers he has inherited.

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Title: Tink! The Musical
Screenplay by: Diane Uniman

In TINK!, a saucy, spirited little fairy who in the old days took a back seat to Peter Pan, emerges as a vibrant, larger-than life heroine in this uplifting, romantic and deliciously raucous musical parody. Will that loveably pesky and co-dependent little fairy “Never land” her Pan? Find out what Tink’s got up her sleeve besides those wings and live outrageous modern adventures as she connives and schemes to get Peter Pan to love her, ultimately confronting the dark evil still lurking in Neverland and beyond. On her journey, Tink’s choices and her courage reflect an innate goodness and indomitable spirit that become the symbol for all that is good and true in the human spirit, for the possibilities that good really can triumph over evil in the world, and for the idea that one enlightened being, wings optional, can transform the world.

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Title: Truckstop
Screenplay by: Dan Pellar

Lost in a place Drew's lived all his life, he finds direction from some unlikely sources in the world of a small town truck stop.

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Title: Truthies
Screenplay by: Carlo DeCarlo

A conspiracy nut suspects his mother-in-law is a secret agent…and she’s out to kill him.

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