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