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Adas FalasteenShort | Documentary | 8 min
A documentary film that tells the story of a Palestinian chef and his role in using his hobby as a shield against the famine caused by the war on Gaza, preserving the spirit of resilience and hope within his community.
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Another Word for SandbarNarrative Feature Pitch | 20 min
In the mid-2000s midwest, an awkward teenager undergoes the beginnings of a queer awakening when they tag along on their best friend’s family’s beach vacation.
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ArsonShort | Horror | 10 min
Aging boy band Actual Size can’t seem to reach the level of stardom they think they deserve. After biding their time playing run down pizza joints and dive bars, they decide to do what many bands of legend had done to achieve fame. They decided to sell their souls. Unfortunately for them, not reading the fine print could prove disastrous.
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At the DoorwayShort | Documentary | 15 min
At the Doorway depicts Hmong women who serve as txiv neeb—spiritual healers and mediators between ancestors, spirits, and living people—in Northern Thailand. These women constantly shift between competing roles as grandmothers, mothers, and their critical roles as spiritual mediators. Award winning Minnesota author Kao Kalia Yang narrates this experimental ethnographic film, which combines literary narrative, verité film, a transdiegetic score, and graphical depictions of electrodermal activity to explore the myriad dimensions of these women’s experiences as healers, mothers, and women.
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Back in NoglikiShort | Documentary | 21 min
Zoya, a Sakhalin journalist and Nivkh woman, was bullied and left her homeland. She returns to Nogliki to care for her disabled mother. Recording her people's stories helps her write a book and finally accept her identity.
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Better Watch OutShort | Comedy | 9 min
When Santa's top elves learn a disturbing secret about Santa, they are forced to make a difficult decision for the sake of the world's children.
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BLANCHEDShort | Animation, Comedy, Drama | 5 min
An arrogant executive chef, Charlie, must learn to overcome the challenge of a mixed-up food order in a fine dining environment.
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Blue SilenceShort | Drama | 7 min
A beach day follows Jaci, a troubled teenager, embarking on a journey of self-discovery of the freedom found within the ocean waters. The innocence of Tallulah brings perspective and live to Jaci with insight to just how large the ocean is. And insightful V.O. between the narrator and Jaci to guide the auidence to define what peace and transquility looks like to them with correlations to water and sacred Indigenous Native American Lakota beliefs.
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Body ShopShort Film Pitch | 20 min
In an alternate reality where “body shops” replace hospitals, a young mechanic discovers a wealthy client is pressuring her boss to loan her a Latina body for a night out. Appalled by the request and determined to stop it, she takes measures into her own hands.
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The BoomShort | Sci-Fi, Action/Adventure | 12 min
An Indigenous man investigates a mysterious sound echoing through the city that reverberates through space and time.
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The Breakfast Club HorrorShort | Horror, Comedy, Thriller | 7 min
When their teacher mysteriously vanishes, DASH Filmmaking camp students at Denfeld HS explore the historic school to find what happened to him. They get more than they bargained for when a ghostly spirit haunts them.
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BugabooShort | Horror | 5 min
A woman uses a cursed doll to seek revenge on the man who wronged her.
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Camp MinneshankaShort | Experimental, Music Video | 19 min
The young and reluctant new owner of Camp Minneshanka stumbles upon an old staff training video, accidentally unleashing a vengeful spirit that wants just one thing: to make a music video.
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Chinese VampireShort Film Pitch | 20 min
Two Hmong-American female college students venture into the wilderness of Minnesota for a camping trip, only to encounter a disturbed 400-year-old Chinese Vampire who’s seeking to find answers.
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Claire BikesShort | Drama | 11 min
Two people, one homeless and one not, share a brief connection while fixing a bike together one night in the Twin Cities.
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Corn Husk DollShort | Drama | 14 min
Corn Husk Doll tells the story of a young, beautiful girl who neglects her community responsibilities. Despite warnings from the animals, she becomes distracted by her own reflection and slowly begins to turn into a corn husk doll with no face. This story reminds us to be humble, and to fulfill our responsibilities to our families, clan, and community.
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CornfieldsShort | Documentary, Comedy | 8 min
In his debut documentary, a professional cornfield photographer reveals the methods and purpose behind his life's work.
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COYWOLFShort | Drama | 15 min
Visually steeped in Nahua culture and woven with Indigenous symbolism.
Jaime walks home and finds more than he was looking for, after a night of too many drinks and microaggressions. He is unjustly picked up by the police and while detained, experiences visions and symbols of his repressed heritage. After he is released the next morning, he comes face to face with a coywolf and a revelation of self. Jaime meets his Nahual and his eyes have been opened and there’s no turning back.
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CrisisShort | Documentary | 31 min
With U.S. healthcare in flux, Minnesota has become a frontline in the fight for universal care. "Crisis" examines how UnitedHealthcare’s business model harms patients and exposes systemic failures, spotlighting Americans challenging insurers that put profits before people.
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The Day Is Not LostShort | Documentary | 15 min
As the call to prayer echoes throughout the village, a cold January day becomes a poetic meditation on tradition and transformation high in the Rhodope mountains of Bulgaria.
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Deeply TroubledShort | Comedy, Drama | 11 min
12-year-old Oliver is convinced that his changing voice killed his goldfish Walter. To prevent further harm, he goes on a journey to buy a helium balloon, but runs into an old friend and a pushy balloon salesman.
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Dinner Table SyndromeShort | Drama, Horror | 12 min
A lonely deaf boy armed with “miracle cure” cochlear implants navigates a Thanksgiving dinner with the strangers who call themselves his family.
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Do You Think I'm Weird?Documentary Feature Pitch | 20 min
A trans filmmaker with schizophrenia turns the camera on himself, blending verité footage, artwork, and archival material in an intimate hybrid portrait about identity, mental illness, and the urgent desire to be understood.
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Don't Bury ItShort | Comedy, Horror | 10 min
Dumped by his girlfriend, Doug's mental health deteriorates and he begins burying his problems, quite literally, in his garden; unpaid bills, dirty dishes, it all goes in, until what started as simple avoidance escalates to a murder spree.
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Eel PatrolShort | Action/Adventure, Animation, Comedy | 3 min
A giant eel attacks a beach, and there's only two dudes that can save the day: The Eel Patrol!
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ElskanShort | Fantasy, Action/Adventure, Drama, Romance | 7 min
Elskan explores love, loyalty, and the weight of tradition.
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Facing the Storm: Mazaska TalksShort | Documentary | 12 min
“Mazaska Talks” explores the rise of the divestment movement in Seattle as part of the strategy to fight the Dakota Access Pipeline. Hear from the co-founders of Mazaska Talks, a Seattle based Indigenous led grassroots organization focused on protecting Indigenous rights, as they discuss the divestment movement as a tool to combat the destruction of sacred sites and the climate crisis.
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finding rhythmShort | Drama | 3 min
Amid the pressure of his band’s debut performance, a drummer strains to keep time and rhythm under the scrutiny of an unforgiving audience; only to lead to a profound realization that changes everything.
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FirewallShort | Drama, Fantasy | 15 min
Ani, an Iranian-American girl in Texas longs for her father, lost and unreachable due to an internet firewall in politically turbulent Iran. When her father mysteriously returns, ancient Persian mythology intertwines with her reality, forcing her to confront the demons that have kept her from finding peace.
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Follow Your Feel Good: The Art of Sarah SeidelmannShort | Documentary | 8 min
Follow Your Feel Good: The Art of Sarah Seidelmann is a short documentary about Sarah’s mission to create art that "makes love visible" and how it came about.
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Forever YoungShort | Documentary | 20 min
Not as a daughter, wife, mother, or grandmother, but just as herself, she began studying literature late in her life and debuted as a poet at 67. Now 86, she still carves her life through poetry and recitation. Her unwavering creativity fills each day with the truth of a life fully lived.
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Foundations to Learn, Play & GrowShort | Documentary | 2 min
Foundations to Learn, Play & Grow is the story of the outsized impact children’s sections play in local public libraries. This short focuses on the Duluth Public Library and how the children’s section impacts early childhood development, and how these spaces should be preserved and improved upon.
In the spirit of community education this film was produced with students from Zeitgeist Arts Film School with their instructor Megan McGarvey directing the production.
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FragmentsShort | Experimental | 6 min
An experimental film of the divide between mother-nature & the man-made.
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Ghostly SurpriseShort | Horror, Comedy, Thriller | 2 min
The kids are minding their own business at their local library when all of a sudden they begin to experience ghostly things...
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Giving Mom the TalkShort | Comedy, Romance | 14 min
In this literal COMING-of-age film, an Indian woman gives her mom "the talk"
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Goodnight My DemonsShort | Horror | 7 min
An insomniac and anxious woman faces her fears and sleep demons as she struggles to get a good night's sleep.
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Gunnar on the Grassland SeaNarrative Feature Pitch | 20 min
After his schizophrenic son shows up naked in his barn claiming to be the Son of God, a terminally-ill farmer must decide between spending his last days on himself or seeking reconciliation with his estranged son through the help of a young immigrant caretaker.
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HOLY HEAVÊNESSShort | Animation, Drama | 9 min
The unbearable lightness of the death of loved ones… There are wounds in life that eat away at you like leprosy…
The weight of the death of loved ones sometimes becomes so overwhelming that to get rid of this weight another birth is inevitable.
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How Many DaysMN Filmmaker Pitch | 20 min
A short, absurdist film about Meera, a constipated South Asian immigrant, who finds obstacles and ultimately solace in a local Indian grocery store, Little India.
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I & MEShort | Drama | 10 min
In order to “heal” Sam must embrace her inner Me and kill her I.
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I Saw EsauShort | Comedy, Horror | 19 min
An unsuspecting Alpine wanderer stumbles upon an intriguing haunted mansion on a rainy night. He investigates and finds himself thrown smack dab into the center of a ribald night of creepy and spooky rhymes and riddles at the Von Flabbergast Mansion. I SAW ESAU is an eye-popping tidal wave of percussion, percussive dance, and song, filmed in four Gilded Age Mansions and based on the rhythms of eerie Victorian nonsense rhymes and word games passed on from one generation of ghost loving children to the next.
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Inner PeaceShort | Animation | 7 min
We get out of life what we put into it. A hardworking farmer mouse discovers the joys of relaxation through the power of cheese in this charming animated short.
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Ish Meets a MermaidShort | Fantasy, Thriller | 16 min
In the lakeside city of Duluth, some legends are older than America. An artist in a slump meets a mysterious woman from a realm beneath Lake Superior and finds success in the last place he ever expected - death. Ish Meets a Mermaid blends Ojibwe legend with the spirit of tragic artist biographies such as Basquiat, Frida and Loving Vincent.
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"Just Listen"Short | Drama | 12 min
The story of a drummer who gave up his passion, but his history catches up to him after uncovering the truth of his past.
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Let My People Go SkiingShort | Documentary, Action/Adventure | 18 min
Confronted with the frustration of false narratives and intergenerational trauma that surround her, Tlingit skier and scientist Ellen Bradley returns to her traditional homelands in Southeast Alaska. Here, she uses skiing as a tool to reclaim her connection to the land she belongs to. The abundance and biodiversity of Lingít aaní (Tlingit land) have shaped the People of the Tides since time immemorial, molding all aspects of traditional and contemporary Tlingit life. Meanwhile, the outdoor industry depicts Alaska as a resource-rich landscape waiting to be conquered and exploited. Just like the ancestors of Ellen’s paternal clan, the Dog Salmon, have always done, people are meant to live in a reciprocal relationship with the land. Weaving ancestral knowledge, scientific understanding, and passion for her sport, we follow Ellen’s journey to help her community reclaim its place at the forefront of the stories told about their homelands. By dismantling barriers to accessing snowsports for
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Like Friend, Like DeerShort | Animation | 13 min
A wildlife ranger who, after killing an illegal hunter, is handed over to a soldier–teacher to be taken to a outpost. The animation explores the connection and similarities between humans and nature.
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The Little AncestorShort | Animation | 11 min
An ancestral house comes to life, builds itself and unveils its long life of one hundred and fifty years. Over the years, it leads us to feel the passage of time in the heart of a growing and buzzing city that will eventually bring its end.
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LOOKERShort | Horror, Fantasy | 13 min
Anna is inexplicably cursed to melt when not being perceived. She must go to greater and greater lengths to be seen... with terrifying consequences.
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Memorializing The MovementShort | Documentary | 24 min
Drawing from 4 years of archival material, Memorializing The Movement follows the story of Leesa Kelly and her team as they attempt to collect and preserve the globally recognized protest art in Minneapolis following the murder of George Floyd.
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My ChairShort | Animation | 13 min
Tired of being sat on, a man's chair makes its move, and the tables are turned.
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My PeopleShort | Documentary | 10 min
In early 2025, Cleveland Cliffs announced that over 600 Iron Range steelworkers were set to be laid off. In this short documentary, we speak with Stuart Van Orsdel and Barbara Barker, two miners who were affected by the layoffs. They talk about how it's impacting themselves, their community, and why it's so important. Miners on the Iron Range are a driving factor in the region's economy. When you watch the news, remember that they're more than just a number on a graph. They are real people, affected by real consequences. These are my people.
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NestingShort | Animation | 4 min
Nesting is a heartwarming 3D animated short that follows a curious pigeon on a journey to rest in a busy urban environment. In the end, he discovers that even in the most unwelcome places, kindness can still be found.
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NinaShort | Comedy, Experimental, Horror | 6 min
At a remote lakeside lodge, a woman fields a steady stream of requests, small talk, and invisible expectations. As the day tightens around her, humor gives way to unease, revealing the quiet cost of always being accommodating.
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NobodyShort | Animation | 7 min
A devastating airstrike shatters a family's life in Gaza. The pregnant wife and her son survive -- along with her husband's head, severed from his body. Confronting this surreal reality, they navigate an unbearable loss while clinging to fragile hope. Together, they embark on a haunting journey of survival, love, and the will to rebuild a life torn apart by tragedy.
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Nothing is here.Short | Animation, Sci-Fi | 4 min
Summer Wetherby just wants to be a kid and hang out with her friends, but she is given responsibilities she isn't old enough to have and it is taking a toll on her. She rants to an entity in a cage in the basement of her school about the troubles of her life, like having to protect this cage from monsters.
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ONE: A Spoken WordShort | Experimental | 7 min
"What I am about to read, is not poetry...." Based on my multi-part spoken-word piece about the time Crazy Horse visited me at my apartment.
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Perishable IdolShort | Documentary | 18 min
As the blue sky meets the surrounding seas, the native-turned-archeologist Hassan Al-Failakawy returns to his abandoned island of Failaka, off the coast of Kuwait, after decades of displacement.
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Pinhole at the Edge of the EarthShort | Animation | 3 min
A young photographer contemplates the subject and purpose of her work as she reconnects with a neglected personification of her own artistic “eye”.
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Pink Christmas (Noël rose)Short | Animation | 5 min
A little pink bear drifts on his piece of ice and arrives in the land of the polar bears. Unwelcome, he sets off in search of other friends. He meets Father Christmas, who offers him a deal...
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Reasons for Moving: Immigrant Stories from the Mississippi FlywayShort | Documentary | 25 min
Reasons for Moving poetically links bird migration and expert testimonies with the family histories of Kalala Kiwanuka-Woernle, whose mother fled Uganda as a child; Mai Moua Thao, born in a refugee camp in Thailand; and Skye Reddy, whose family was displaced in the colonial Partition of India.
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RedbirdShort | Drama | 14 min
A Cherokee woman fights to protect her niece from an unlawful adoption by her white grandparents as she reckons with feeling distant from her own culture.
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RevolutionShort | Thriller, Action/Adventure | 3 min
After a simple command crosses a line, one boy becomes witness to a revolution that he never meant to start.
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Ring RingShort | Comedy | 12 min
The simple mistake of tossing wedding rings into a trash compactor spirals into a fight for survival when the best man dives in after the rings and finds himself about to be crushed.
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Ripple EffectsShort | Documentary | 5 min
Ripple Effects is a powerful short film that explores the deep and irreplaceable connection between clean water and Minnesota’s communities, culture, and future. Highlighting the sacred Ojibwe maple sugar traditions of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe, the film demonstrates how clean water has shaped Minnesota’s past, present, and future. The proposed Tamarack Mine threatens the state’s most valuable resource—clean water. With no history of clean nickel sulfide mining, the film warns that once water is polluted, it cannot be restored. The impact of this mining project will have lasting ripple effects across Minnesota, affecting both the environment and the people who depend on it.
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RuuntaShort | Drama, Thriller | 15 min
Through the lens of a Somali man fighting to live his truth, Ruunta paints a portrait of a young man torn between who he is expected to be, and who he knows he is, in a city that knocks him down and lifts him up.
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Salt CirclesShort | Horror, Comedy | 21 min
Betty, a high school student from a strict, traditional family, discovers that she is pregnant. She finds help in an unlikely ally, Emma, her sullen goth classmate, who suggests they summon a demon to remedy the situation.
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SAT.MN Filmmaker Pitch | 20 min
In a society that manufactures suffering, Kay, a Black queer twenty-something living with a mental illness, battles their ‘inner demons’ and existential dread through therapy, ritual, self-reflection, and just plain survival. Despite all the reasons to give in and give up, they continue to live another day.
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The Seventh TurnShort | Drama | 19 min
Based on a Spanish urban legend, THE SEVENTH TURN is an allegory about the psychological violence of gaslighting, the fragile space between perception and reality, and the redemption of self belief.
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Shoot, Shovel and Shut UpShort | Drama | 15 min
When a struggling family’s future depends on selling their farm, the teenage son Andy must decide whether to save a rare bird that threatens the deal or bury the truth.
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Silver Bay Public Library Promo VideoShort | Documentary | 3 min
The Silver Bay Public Library is not a "quiet" library! Their offerings fill many needs in the community.
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SpiralIndigenous Filmmaker Pitch | 20 min
In a secluded cabin, an Ojibwe photographer struggles to care for his dementia-ridden grandmother, who insists his father's spirit is hunting him.
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Stinky FishShort | Comedy | 20 min
At a small town Minnesota Lutheran church, Lucy and Barbara make for an odd pairing - forced together to play music each Sunday, but kept apart by their mutual disdain for each other. Barbara, a loner who struggles to connect, and Lucy, the church’s resident socialite, reach their tipping point when the steamy Pastor Dan comes to town, launching them into a competition to embarrass the other through a series of misunderstandings.
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SUPERCONSCIOUSShort | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 22 min
In 1973, a study in clairvoyance begins to unravel as the participants test the limits of what can be discovered with “psi” energy.
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Teb Chaw (Land)Short | Documentary | 11 min
Teb Chaw (Land) [pronounced: thay chuh] is an immersive portrait of Hmong refugee farmers transforming local foodways in a diversified Minnesota–home to one of the largest populations of the Hmong diaspora built in the aftermath of the Secret War in Laos.
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The Gichigami GazetteIndigenous Filmmaker Pitch | 20 min
Recently fired writer Pam moves home to Duluth, gets a job at The Gichigami Gazette, and partners with a ghost named Gary to tell stories from the local urban Native community that are both mundane and supernatural.
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The Quiet PartDocumentary Feature Pitch | 20 min
When a pagan white supremacist group takes root in a quiet Minnesotan farming town, it sparks an intense struggle over who has the right to belong, offering a disturbing warning about the normalization of extremism.
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The Third ChildShort | Documentary | 25 min
Mehdi is the only hearing child in a completely deaf family. His mother, father, sisters, and brother are all deaf. Since childhood, Mehdi has struggled with pronunciation and speech due to his family’s circumstances. Now, he is striving to become a professional voice actor and dubbing artist on his new path.
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Time Is MoneyShort | Drama, Comedy | 12 min
Jace, a financially challenged writer/director and self-proclaimed graduate of the school of Mark Duplass, delivers packages to survive while struggling to secure funds for his first indie feature. A bonus for the top-ranked delivery driver could solve his problems.
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Timun MasShort | Animation, Comedy | 11 min
The story of a miracle child born in a golden cucumber, and of a lonely widow’s questionable deal with a magical ogre. A quirky retelling of a Javanese folktale by the 4th and 5th grade students of Crestwood Elementary School in Madison, WI
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UnfrayedShort | Drama, Western | 8 min
A woman on the run stumbles into a camp late in the dead of night desperate to find sanctuary, but instead, finds an unlikely ally.
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Where the Wind Takes YouShort | Documentary, Action/Adventure | 12 min
Embracing the power of the arctic wind just 10 degrees shy of the North Pole, a sailboat captain sails North dodging icebergs, exploring remote fjords, and experiencing a close encounter with the ultimate apex predator.
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