NVV 2024 Filmmakers L - Z

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Jack Lacy is a gay mixed-race Fil-Am filmmaker from Richmond, Virginia, exploring race, sexuality, and gender in his work.

ACOCKALYPSE
A gay graffiti artist gets involved in a brutal turf war with his deeply closeted machismo ex.

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Matthew Levine worked at Thunder Road Films and FBoy Island. Watch him compete on Beast Games.

Essence of Nate
A regretful playwright lets the audience vote on what he should have done differently in his breakup.

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Julia Lipsztein is a Senior in the UGFTV program with minors in Producing and Business of Entertainment, Media and Technology. She spent her summer as a business development intern for TASTE, a startup production company generating food documentaries and she hopes to continue her work in business development post graduation.

Inaudible Articulations
A film about a young man and his loved ones coming to terms with his bipolar disorder.

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Jeremy Lu is a Filipino-Japanese-Chinese-American award-winning writer-director and cinematographer who is interested in pursuing stories that reflect the unconventional and weird.

The Chameleon
On a day out, a young girl reckons with her father’s identity after his hair inexplicably turns pink.

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Lauren Luke was born and raised in Honolulu, HI. She aims to honor her multicultural roots through narrative and ethnographic non-fiction works.

Perlita
Mia mourns the loss of her grandmother, Mama. We spend a day with them, 10 years in the past, exploring Mia's effervescent memory and discovering the indelible legacy Mama left behind.

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Ali Malik is a writer/director/producer whose work explores loss of innocence and searches for the silver lining. 

brother bear
As his parents' separation looms, and his big brother grows distant, a little boy strives for connection through the relationship with his teddy bear. 

"Knot in my Chest"
A NAUSEATED STOCK BROKER, A BORED DELI CLERK, AND A LONELY ARISTOCRAT BREAK OUT OF THIER OWN DYSTOPIAS THE ONE WAY THEY KNOW HOW.

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Andie Man

Autopilot
A drifter attempts to navigate through time and space while tied to a 50-year time bomb.

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Calvin McCrory is a filmmaker with his finger on the pulse of unkillable disease of internet "brain rot". Enjoy the movie!

POOL BOY
On the hottest day of the summer a pool boy, guided by Andrew Tate, takes what's his.

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Victoria Mezquita is a Senior at NYU Film & Television pursuing a BEMT minor. Originally from Argentina, she balances her academic pursuits with being an influencer.

Not My Type
With the help of her mom, Olivia evades her persistent ex-boyfriends and escapes to East Harlem’s enchanting world.

Venus
Across the ages, women have been objectified and oppressed in a never-ending cycle of desire, admiration, and exploitation, perpetuated by an imposed aesthetic standard.

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Alexia Ocampo is an experimental focused filmmaker, aiming to be a vessel for the voices of fellow queer Filipina artists.

Ignominy
Celeste is forced to confront her identity as she loses grasp on “reality” while being bombarded by a recurring nightmare.

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Tian Pei is a Chinese-Canadian creative who is interested in telling stories about heartfelt connections and pet plants.

Fly Away
A father adjusts to life alone after his son moves away with his mother.

Sophia Plaushin

Beth
A young woman explores motherhood through the creation of an all consuming monster.

Josh Pyun has held a strong love and passion for animation ever since he was young, and hopes that he can entertain people with his funny little cartoons.

The Maze
A human male attempts to outrun a ferocious spider as part of a maze test run by a pair of rat scientists. The results are quite gruesome.

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Marcus Quinn is a French-American Senior at NYU UGFTV, specializing in screenwriting and editing.

Pinkies
A woman’s final request prompts her husband to seek and eventually discover a devastating family secret.

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Tess Rechtweg is a fourth-year Film and TV student at NYU Tisch, concentrating in producing with a minor in Business Studies. She is an alumnus of the prestigious Television Academy Foundation Internship Program and has previously interned with Likely Story and Shondaland.

Break Fast
A young girl recovering from an eating disorder goes against her family’s wishes and fast during Yom Kippur.

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Arabella Sharkey was born in London and raised in Hong Kong. She’s a Senior at NYU Tisch majoring in Film & TV.

Mirror Stacy
A suicidal middle-aged woman is confronted by her younger self, who emerges from her bedroom mirror.

Union In the Rain
Cycles of a relationship dynamic unfold in a train carriage.

Jonathan Sim is a film director and journalist born and raised in New York City.

Diamond Eyes
A girl has trouble confessing her feelings when her crush reconnects with his former lover.

Kyle Stone is a filmmaker and casting director from Philadelphia. Two random passions of Kyle include roller coasters and musicals!

Project Spooky
A documentary crew observes a troupe of actors running a haunted house, witnessing them clash creatively and socially in their final rehearsal.

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Chris Varbanovski is a queer Bulgarian filmmaker and voice actor hoping to bring diversity to and from Eastern European cinema.

Straight to The Bottom
When relationship issues push Alex into finding a job, he ends up in the Czech gay porn industry.

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ZJ Wang from Beijing and Syracuse.

All Leaves That Fall
An estranged family revisits their old house for the last time because of the death of a Russian tortoise.