JACQUELINE ELYSE ROSENTHAL

After collegiate Valerie Neumann's brutal assault and silencing from authorities, her rape kit becomes shelved, one of 100,000 forgotten rape kits known as the national rape kit backlog. Years later, she is given the opportunity to testify as the key witness in the U.S. Senate Hearings, but can she trust a system that has betrayed her? Based on a true story.

CARRIE WACHOB

When Betty can't make it home to her darling Waffles, she must find another way to spread feline love.

KATHARINE PARSONS

The devastating Tubbs wildfire in Santa Rosa changed Katharine Parsons’ work—and her life—forever. As an animal lover, she became riveted by the stories of the cats who beat impossible odds to survive—and by the stories of the rescuers who spent hundreds of hours in the field to find them.

BRIAN PADIAN

Sister/Brother is a dramatic comedy about Nora Miles, a strong woman at a weak point in her life: recently-divorced, debt-burdened, and desperate to rise from the ashes of her mistakes. A road trip reunites Nora with her younger brother Scotty and brings them both to different places of growth and renewal.

DANIELLE KARAGANNIS

A live-action, psychological drama that's an interpretation of David Bowie's character Major Tom. Envision 2001: A Space Odyssey crashing into Requiem for a Dream.

REBECCA MLINEK

An elderly woman vies against her accomplished brother for control of her house, until a mysterious cat appears to tip the balance.

KATERINA EICHENBERGER

When a young woman gets an illegal abortion in a totalitarian America, she’s left alone to face a sinister presence that begins rapidly growing inside of her.

SABINA VAJRAČA

When his younger brother dies under suspicious circumstances, and the police refuse to investigate, Kenan, a successful Bosnian-American banker, is forced into the dark underbelly of Florida’s Bosnian Muslim immigrant community in order to uncover what actually happened.

MOHANA RAJAKUMAR - SHORTS BY SHORTIES

The Short Film Lab is a CSO (community service organization) based in Doha, Qatar working to create unique experiences for locally based female digital storytellers.

SEBASTIEN TOBLER

Long lost high school sweethearts, Laela and Colin, unexpectedly reunite in Los Angeles 23 years after being separated in Jakarta by the 1998 riots. What begins as a sentimental look back at an exciting upbringing, forces the characters to draw a line between unrequited love and nostalgia.

MUGS CAHILL

When three black veterans grieving the suicide of a friend gather with the dead man’s father, the four men must put aside inner turmoil to find in each other the hope and strength to fight another day.