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BARON MUNCHAUSEN, 20min., Ukraine
Directed by Ilya Noyabrev
Eternal love or eternal life? This difficult choice is facing a brilliant actor. His life in the gray real world and the life of the world of fantasies are so closely intertwined that bright pictures of vi...

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Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Louis: Steve Rizzo
Laura: Hannah Ehman

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1. What is your screenplay about?

Ultimately it's about loneliness and how if can look different through grief or mental illness. Some people struggle with it and seem to function well (car...

London, 1979. Reeling from the fallout of her father’s suicide, observant teen Jenny devises a foolproof theft, based on insights gleaned from waitressing in a gangsters’ social club. Her plucky two best friends join in - but their plan to pull a counter heist goes badly awry.

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Narra...

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TOXIC INFLUENCE: THE DARK SIDE OF DOVE, 6min,. UK
Directed by Alice Russell
You wouldn’t poison your daughter’s future, but Dove is doing it every day. Greenpeace research found that every minute, Dove floods low-income communities with 12,000 highly polluting plas...

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A young oceanographer discovers her gradfather's plane - part of the Lost Patrol - and is thrust into an emotional journey with a rebellious reporter as the government tries to cover up what really happened that night in 1945. The duo uncovers an extraordinary truth of how water, our most preciou...

A Half Hour Comedy about a gender non-conforming young adult embarking on a journey of self discovery with help and — at times — hindrance from their family.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Steve Rizzo
Quinn: Hannah Ehman
Sarah: Elizabeth Rose Morriss

A brilliant but troubled Egyptologist sparks an international incident when she invades the tomb of a mummified celestial being, only to become possessed by the entity's mysterious powers.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Deborah: Hannah Ehman
Ahmed: Steve Rizzo

In ancient Israel, an aspiring stand-up comedian and self-proclaimed prophet must navigate fame, rivalries, and a mad Procurator's wrath to save his runner-up competitor—and himself—after winning the wildly popular reality show, 'Jerusalem Idol.'

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Narrator: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Be...

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Narrator: Shawn Devlin
Becky: Julie Sheppard
Lucille: Hannah Ehman

Haunted by a fatal mistake, a shattered vice cop reunites with a bright but brooding detective and his mysterious family to tame her frightening new power and protect it from the evil eager to control it.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Rachel: Hannah Ehman
Brandon: Steve Rizzo

Between the moon walk and Woodstock, a 17 year old aspiring photographer struggles to save her boyfriend from slipping into heroin addiction without destroying herself.

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Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Rosie: Hannah Ehman
Boone: Steve Rizzo

A lesbian couple engages the services of a sex guru to spice up their love life, with hysterically touching results.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Kerry: Hannah Ehman
Ellen: Elizabeth Rose Morriss
Donald: Steve Rizzo

The killing of a teenage basketball prodigy in New York presents a life-threatening challenge for a beautiful Latina detective and her partner.

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Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Erika: Elizabeth Rose Morris
Maria: Hannah Ehman

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1. What is your screenplay about?
Whit...

A brilliant and unstable Egyptologist becomes entangled in an international incident when she agrees to search for a tomb that holds a mummified ancient alien. Her problems deepen when she becomes possessed by the alien's power.

CAST LIST:

Narrator: Julie Sheppard
Walter: Shawn Devlin
Deborah...

After the sudden death of her father, Devine “Mack” Muhammad, an NBA legend, WNBA superstar Destiny “Beloved” Muhammad is faced with a choice: to play in Game 7 of the Finals and honor his legacy or be consumed by grief and doubt. Ball is Life explores themes of family, generational pressure, and...

Love Unveiled explores the collision of two different worlds. Sophie, a driven and self-centered woman, dreams of a political career in Washington, D.C., but her plans derail when her father’s gambling debts entrap her with Drago, a ruthless mafia boss in Split, Croatia. Forced into a marriage wi...

Greta, a young Swedish actress, leaves her home and her twin flame, Clara, to pursue stardom, reinventing herself as the glamorous Margo Alba. Fame and success follow, but they come at the cost of the authenticity she left behind. Meanwhile, Clara embarks on a new chapter with Richard, a tech dev...

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JOYCE, 25min., Norway
Directed by Tomas Martinsen-Hickman
Joyce, a 40-something closeted alcoholic, hits her breaking point after a series of bad choices, her husband stages an intervention but it goes awry and she risks losing her family and her life, based on tru...

Performed by Val Cole

READING:

Existential Hazards of the Mythmaker, by Michelle Chen
In English class we learn how the lotus flower, native
to Guyana, is a fiction of resilience, but under keen
Chinese eyes blooms purity in the dark. Because critical
interpretation never lies – unlike climate ...

Performed by Val Cole

Sunbeam, by Amita Jayant Sanghavi

Sometimes a memory
Burns and scalds
So bad
Those moonbeams
Can’t soothe
The seething heart,
Sometimes a memory
Leaves shivers and chills
So bad
Those sunbeams
Can’t warm
The frozen heart.

Between
The moonbeams
And the sunbeams,
The ‘prese...

Performed by Val Cole

Performed by Val ColePerformed by Val Cole