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Olympia
McKenzie Chinn stars as a struggling artist, navigating work and romance in the Windy City. When her boyfriend asks her to drop everything and move cross-country, she soon discovers that her biggest obstacle may be herself. Featuring quirky animation and a revelatory central performance, Olympia is a heartfelt story for anyone who's ever felt adrift on the rough seas of adulthood.
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On Mother's Day
An intimate look at how mass incarceration impacts a mother on Mother's Day.
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PAWG - Day12 "Pretty Ass White Girl" 2.1
In this dark comedy, the ending is only the beginning as lovers reunite 12 days after one of them gets a whole new lease on life and love.
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Piu Piu
Piu Piu is a short film about Jordan (Natalie Paul - The Deuce) taking a mundane trip to the city that turns into a surrealist nightmare. When Jordan, a restless young woman, decides to--without reason-- ditch her boyfriend (Terence Nance - An Oversimplification of Her Beauty) for a moment of freedom she soon discovers this gamble reaps reward but not without risk as she contends with monstrous abuses across several planes of existence: mindfully, physically and spiritually.
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Quiet and Clear
When Aurelian blocks her on Facebook after taking her virginity, 13 year-old Peezoo senses life in Franklin, Louisiana, where the water is still, is coming to a halt. As her father's grip tightens and his glare ensnares, Peezoo feels an even greater force drawing nearer. To reclaim control over her body, Peezoo enters an arm wrestling match with small-town patriarchy. From the sidelines, her father's world splits in two.
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S E A R E D
Beaten by injustice and a life of crime, a young man's plan to end it all turns into a life of renewed hope and a passionate career as a chef.
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S.O.S. (Save Our Sisters) Part I and II
A two-part short film centering on the epidemic of human trafficking, S.O.S. first focuses on the parallel lives of two sisters living starkly different lifestyles: one deeply entrenched in sex work, and the other desperately trying to save her sister. Part two follows young, ambitious, reporter, Joi Anderson, whose only goal is to expose and bring light to the recent trend of missing minority girls in her community. While searching for leads and answers, Joi unwittingly becomes a target. Will she ever get to tell her story?
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Soul Alley
This documentary is the telling of life on several all black neighborhood streets during the Vietnam war. All were in Saigon. Drugs, violence, and sex, were the activities of escape from a brutal war that took a huge toll on American troops. This was the getaway of Black GI's. White GI's had theirs as well in a war that was held on two fronts; Multi ethnic American force working together during the day, but fighting each other at night. This experience as told by soldiers moves into the by product of a life of fun away from war...children. Children of the Dust to be exact. Babies of mixed heritage. Some Vietnamese and black, some Vietnames and white, some Vietnamese and Hispanic. Mistreated as they grew up, the majority still living there have wanted to find their fathers, and move to America for a better life. This is that story. Soul Alley.
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Still Here
Left to their own devices in a flooding house during the wake of a life-threatening hurricane, a caregiver and an elderly patient with differing spiritual beliefs struggle to find hope in each other.
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