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Current projects

A NICE LITTLE STORY

May and August finally meet when quarantine is lifted, but emotions arise unexpectedly that may threaten their intimacy.

DIRECTOR: Tyler Ross


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All Jacked Up and Full of Worms

A body horror feature about psychosis.

DIRECTOR: Alex Phillips


 

Amir’s a Superhero

A group of comic book nerds attempt to prove their co-worker is a superhero after they discover he’s disappearing to perform, what they don’t realize are, his religious duties.

 

DIRECTOR: Jacquelyn Jamjoom


BLOOD, SWEAT, AND HEELS

Never having stepped foot in a strip club, Cassidy’s first night dancing is at The Siren, Chicago's most popular strip club.

DIRECTORS: Laura Day, Arielle Rogers


Brother

When his conservative sister shows up at his wedding to Carlos, Tony is torn between family and freedom.

DIRECTOR:  Aleksei Borovikov


Censored Love

In 1969, 17 year-old Salomé dreams of singing on Don Higinio Aguirre’s popular radio show while, in the present day, Aguirre’s son struggles to live up to his father’s legacy.

DIRECTOR: Mario Garza


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CLOSE TIES TO HOME COUNTRY

An immigrant dogwalker finds home in the hearts of the rich people’s dogs she dogsits. 

DIRECTOR: Akanksha Cruczynski


Code-switched

Code-Switched follows an ensemble of five South Asian-American millennials as they try and navigate lives in an increasingly gentrified Chicago.

DIRECTOR: Karan Sunil


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COWBOY JOE REDUX

A Chinese girl wants to be a cowboy. No one believes her.

DIRECTOR: Jingjin Tian


Dawn Dusk

Dawn Dusk is a chapter in the life of Chelli Look, a leather bag designer in Chicago, IL who designs and fabricates her product as well as runs her company, CHC. Amongst the day to day of running a business, building a company, designing a line, and honing her craft, Chelli pursues what it means to honor the legacy of her sister, who was murdered ten years earlier. Through her art, Chelli processes the dawns and dusks that have brought her to the present, and embraces healing through forgiveness.

DIRECTORS: Blue & Jason Gerber


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El Vals (The Waltz)

El Vals is the story of Danny and Gaby, two young siblings whose relationship has been broken since their mother’s deportation as they struggle to make ends meet, all while Gaby’s long awaited Quinceañera looms in the distance.


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Estranged

After auditioning for a prestigious Chicago-based orchestra and receiving job offers that require them to leave their hometowns, Yang Yang and Maria must overcome their families’ conservative views on women in order to pursue their dreams.

DIRECTOR: Xiwen Miao


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GHAREEB

Ghareeb is a series about three generations of women: Mariam and her two daughters, Mya and Aya. After personal rifts for the characters create tension for the family as a whole, they are brought closer to each other and to roots that they feel all but estranged from.

DIRECTOR: Lena Elmeligy


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Help

To make him prove his love for her, a high-school senior asks her freshman boyfriend to commit murder. And he does.

DIRECTOR: Sydney Marshall Gilliam


HIVE: Trace (pilot episode)

Hive is a Chicago-based sci-fi anthology series which examines complex social issues through a futurist lens.

CREATORS: Stephanie Jeter, Tim Maupin, Derek McPhatter


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Limits of Vision

The Limits of Vision is a "diary-of-a-mad-housewife" story featuring Marcia, a twenty-something South Londonite, whose fanciful notions about dust and dirt take a dark turn when she hosts coffee morning.

DIRECTOR: Laura Harrison


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Lotería

María, a bathroom attendant at the nightclub "El Infierno," dreams of being a famous singer.

DIRECTOR: Emily Esperanza


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LUpita

A Tsotsil Maya massacre survivor becomes a spokesperson for her people amid a Mexican indigenous movement led by women.

DIRECTOR: Monica Wise Robles


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Mayday

A veteran paramedic and recovering alcoholic struggles to manage work, relationships, and his own inner demons.

DIRECTOR: Edward Wilson


My Little Renaissance Girl

My Little Renaissance Girl is a surrealist dark comedy feature film that follows Amy in modern-day Chicago as her physical world is overtaken by Renaissance-themed garb and fanfare.

DIRECTOR: Bethany Berg


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New Hire

A recently deceased Black woman works her first gig for a corporation that has dead people perform ghostly tasks to pay off their debt.

DIRECTOR: Aquarius Ester


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Phyl

A preacher's wife faces a moral dilemma when she stumbles upon an offense within her congregation.

DIRECTOR: Kristina Valada-Viars


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Quotidian

After losing his job and stability, Yamil is forced to confront a dark past for a better tomorrow.

DIRECTOR: Alex Gonzalez


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Resistance & Resettlement

A "cinematic digital history" project that weaves a series of short narrative films into an engaging interactive web experience.


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Room Rodeo

His dad stands him up. He acts out. Now Jamil is on punishment in his room. He’s also finally reached the fifth grade and has a history project due.


DIRECTOR: Daniel Kayamba


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Rough River Lake 

Anticipating a perfect gaycation, a group of queer friends arrive at their lake house to discover that it has been double booked by a bachelor party.

 

Director: Mary Tilden


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Seven to X

Seven to X (Ten) follows the story of a group of Type 1 Americans from all walks of life, banning together through an underground social network, to travel across the border in hopes of affordable insulin.

DIRECTOR: Sonia Sebastian


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SILT

A native botanist, grieving the death of a beloved aunt, travels alone to northern Mexico, where she is nourished by images of the last trip they took together traversing the Colorado River.

WRITER/DIRECTOR: Emilie Upczak


Showgirls of Pakistan

With unprecedented access, this documentary intimately follows the lives of three showgirls living on the fringes of Pakistani society.

DIRECTOR: Saad Khan


STONEBREAKERS

Stonebreakers is a documentary about the fight over monuments in the United States.

DIRECTOR: Valerio Ciriaci


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Terrain Ahead

A meditation on water, Terrain Ahead is a hybrid analog-digital experimental documentary exploring the trajectory of human impact on coastlines in the United Arab Emirates. The film asks questions around visibility and invisibility, around what is and can be documented and shared, and that which cannot.


The Last Drop

A young woman and her boyfriend go on a romantic adventure through their past with a device that lets couples explore shared memories— but when their journey reveals overlooked signs of abuse, she must wake herself up to escape.

DIRECTOR: Adam Joel


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The legend of Rudy

An aspiring hero must save his venerated sword-master from the grips of the formidable Queen of Shadows.

DIRECTOR: Augustus Corder


TransMexico

TransMexico recounts the triumphant stories of transwomen bravely defying the transphobic culture in which they live.

DIRECTOR: Claudia Sanchez


Triple Threat

Friends are pulled apart as a shared Broadway dream is challenged by a new dream: family.

DIRECTOR: Stacey Maltin


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UTOPIA

In this episode of the comic (and soon to be web series) of Starseed + Her Psychic Warriors Starseed and her earth friends Alice, Wren and Sage make another hallucinogenic trip to the “mindscape.”

DIRECTOR: Sophia Pierre


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Virgin on the Rocks

25 year-old Greta becomes hellbent on finally losing her virginity as she attempts to shake off the Madonna-whore dichotomy on her quest to find love and have sex—not necessarily in that order.

DIRECTOR: Sarah Youngblood


WISE GALS

In an alternative 1980s underground, women rule organized crime. Rising star Sophia will stop at nothing in her pursuit of power.  

DIRECTOR: Anna Remus


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You’re out!

You’re OUT! is a coming-of-middle-age story about Rod Browning, an out-of-work, former minor league baseball player, and his best friend who take their 17-year old sons on a cross-country road trip to get them recruited by a Division 1 college baseball team.

DIRECTOR: K Mraz