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THE DEVILS ARE HERE
writer/director: Paul alan cope
After a woman defends her life by killing an attacker in her home, she must fight the storm of trauma, the reaction of her loved ones, and her assailant's surviving family, obsessed with vengeance.
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— PACKAGING —
FRESH GRAVE
writer/director: DANIEL ZUCKER
AFTER THEIR SMALL MICHIGAN TOWN GOES UNDER, TWO BLUE-COLLAR BUDDIES MAKE EXTRA MONEY ROBBING GRAVES. BUT EVERYTHING CHANGES ONE NIGHT, WHEN THEY DIG UP THE BODY OF A FRIEND, WHOM THEY DIDN'T KNOW WAS DEAD.
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— SCRIPT —
SOMNIAC
writer/director: JOSEPH MIRELES
After a failed sleep experiment, a rebellious grad student must save her brother from madness by facing the repressed horrors of her own subconscious.
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— SCRIPT —
THE ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM
SERIES CREATOR: NORMAN FRANKLIN
A proud conservative tries to balance his rising career as a political radio show host with his identity as a Black man in a progressing America.
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CARRY On
writer/director: Paul alan cope
We meet BETH in the middle of a quarter-life crisis. She has no job because her days are dedicated to caring for her sick father, PHIL. Her nights are spent getting loaded in clubs, and random one night stands. But when her father is given only a few weeks to live, Phil delivers his dying wish — for Beth to get married before he passes away. Luckily, she won’t be alone. Her long-lost-best-friend REGGIE has just come home for the first time in years, and he seems to have love and life all figured out. But as we dig deeper, it appears that Reggie is just as lost as Beth. Will they find the answers to love and life and loss in each other?
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Jim Thorpe, PA
WRITER/producer: TOM MORASH
After the death of famed Native-American athelete Jim Thorpe, his widow, Patricia, embarks on an incredulous cross-country journey to memorialize her late husband’s legacy, and what unfolds is the story of how she willed a town to rename itself after a man who had never been there. Based on true events.
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— CASTING —
WHERE THE NIGHT TAKES US
WRITER/DIRECTor: RYAN LACEN AND SEAN KIRKPATRICK
Maudrey and boyfriend Duck devise a plan a heist to steal an heirloom - from her own Family. What she doesn’t suspect is that her family is secretly hatching a scheme of their own, orchestrated by them to stage an intervention for her. But the intervention spirals into a circus of chaos where Maudrey is forced to confront her inner demons. As the wild night progresses, the entire family begins to unravel, exposing their own secrets, deceits, and marital infidelities.
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— CASTING —
YOU PEOPLE SUCK
WRITER/DIRECTor: NORMAN FRANKLIN
YOU PEOPLE SUCK TAKES PLACE IN AN ALTERNATE REALITY WHERE RACISM IS OUTLAWED AND {WHITE} PEOPLE HAVE GENTRIFIED EVERYTHING. TOKEN 44, A BLACK MAN WHO WAS “RE-EDUCATED” AS A KID, ATTEMPTS TO CONFORM TO HIS SURROUNDINGS ONLY TO FIND OUT THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY STAY THE SAME.
BEING A VICTIM OF CONSTANT MICRO-AGGRESSIONS AND UNEXPLAINABLE VIOLENCE TOWARDS HIM, HE IS SENT ON A CHAOTIC SELF IDENTIFYING JOURNEY, LEADING HIM TO BECOME A MASKED VIGILANTE THAT TORTURES THE GENTRIFIERS OF HIS OLD NEIGHBORHOOD. WITH THE AUTHORITIES HOT ON HIS TRAIL, TOKEN BEGINS TO RECEIVE MESSAGES FROM AN UNKNOWN SENDER WHO IS TRACKING HIS EVERY MOVE.
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#LOOKINGFORAWIFE
Writer/Director: NORMAN FRANKLIN
A down in the dumps, hopeless romantic, tries to fill the void of grief by searching for his soulmate.