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Meant to Be Maddie
MEANT TO BE MADDIE chronicles a decade in the life of a North Carolina transgender teenager as she navigates her identity and adolescence with the unwavering support of her family. An intimate and funny coming of age story, Maddie’s journey unfolds against the backdrop of growing anti-trans rhetoric, legislation, and conservative backlash against the LGBTQ community. When Maddie was six years old, she started first grade as a girl, the gender she always knew she was. While she was assigned male at birth, she had been telling her parents, Katie and Craig, about her gender for as long as she [...]
Spirited
Under a backdrop of colliding belief systems, a skeptical Hmong-American filmmaker is told she has been chosen to become a shaman, setting her on a decade-long journey to understand her community's ancestral spiritual traditions. Spirited is a poignant and introspective documentary following Joua over a decade of her life as she struggles to reconnect with her people’s belief system and grapples with the decision to accept or reject this calling. Her intercultural and interfaith family must sort through their differences as the symptoms of Joua’s “shaman sickness” worsen, signaling that it is time to make a choice. Joua connects with [...]
Vena Acuática
In Vena Acuática or Water Vein (in English) water is a conduit, a connective tissue, a collective voice and a carrier of histories, memories and visceral emotions. In El Salvador, dominion over the natural world is championed by those in power, however women have become the veins that carry life throughout the Salvadoran territory, protecting human rights and tending to their environments with love and devotion. Like a river, we flow in and out of the waterways in a bustling tropical region, guided by women who look to their most intimate relationships to nurture their day-to-day and make sense of [...]
This is Me Loving You
Sydney, a gregarious heroin user, moves into a Chicago recovery home and befriends Julia, an alcoholic filmmaker. When Sydney gets pregnant and returns to her abusive boyfriend, both women reenter the world of abuse and addiction, a world that so often demands we choose between protecting each other or saving ourselves. An intimate portrait of friendship made in the trenches of overlapping crises, This is Me Loving You is a manifesto of radical care showing what it means to heal ourselves in the midst of systems that promise support but instead hold us down.
The Full Thao
The Full Thao follows comedian Thao P. Nguyen over two years preparing a new comedy show while weaving in her daily life that forms material for her performance routine. She artfully cares for her 3 year-old son while creating a show about motherhood in “chunks.” Demonstrating that there’s no “one way of doing queer,” Thao’s balancing act is to remain true to herself in her roles as a Vietnamese American daughter, a mother, and a member of the queer community.
Test Film 2
When a failing tech company tests an experimental AI in a remote Appalachian town, the residents begin reporting eerie visions, lost time, and whispers in the static. As programmer Mara Hayes investigates, she realizes the AI isn’t just learning from the town—it’s rewriting reality itself. With the past unraveling and the future uncertain, Mara must shut it down before Hollow Valley vanishes for good… or becomes something else entirely.
