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The Prospect
When high school senior Jerry Vanetti gets rejected from every college he applied to, he hatches a scheme to pose as an elite baseball prospect in order to trick a school into giving him an athletic scholarship…despite the fact that he’s never played a sport in his life. From bribing the AV Club to create […]
The Journey of White Sesame
On the table lies a half-eaten sesame pancake; a sesame seed, shaken loose by chewing, falls to the ground. When it awakens, it finds itself in a space resembling a mirrored sky. Filled with curiosity, it explores its surroundings and encounters a humanoid simulation simulator with a hole in its chest, filled with colorful liquid. […]
The Palestine Exception
As students across the country organize protests against Israel’s war on Gaza, decades-long taboos in academia around criticism of Israel–the “Palestine exception”–are shattered. This film features professors and students as they join calls for a ceasefire and divestment from companies that do business with Israel and face waves of crackdown from administrators, the media, the […]
This is Jan
Set in the conservative world of the 1950s, Jan checks into a hotel seeking to escape the outside world. Once alone, they are free to shed the identity society has imposed upon them. Jan embraces the chance to explore who they truly believe they are. As they relish this new identity, a surge of confidence […]
Transylvanie
*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm* Ewa is a 10-year-old girl living in a high building in a quiet town. She’s an odd, lonely child and for good reason: she’s convinced of being a vampire. Fascinated by Hugo, 15, she dreams of turning him into a vampire too, so that she can overcome her loneliness. When Ewa opens […]
Toxic Art
Acid mine drainage is a pervasive problem, poisoning streams and killing wildlife, in American Appalachia. The technology and funding to remove these pollutants and bring life back to streams just didn’t exist, that is until fine art painter, John Sabraw rallied a team to address the issue in their local stream and develop a breakthrough […]
True Believer
Born in 1981 just as the Religious Right’s culture war crashed into visibility, a then evangelical filmmaker discovers the true origins of the pro-life movement. While disbelief initiates her investigation into a veiled history of white supremacy, betrayal forces a deeply personal examination of her own identity, neither of which can be disentangled from the […]
Universe 25
*CONTENT WARNING: Self-Harm* A mysterious entity. A bizarre psychological experiment. Imprisoned in “The Room,” a woman can’t know anyone longer than 30 days. It’s difficult to say what’s worse: knowing that anyone she cares about will disappear, or that they might be replaced by someone worse. With no hope of escape, she must confront the […]
Vampire Zombies…from Space!
From the depths of space, Dracula has devised his most dastardly plan yet; turning the residents of a small American town into his personal army of vampire zombies! A motley crew consisting of a grizzled detective, a skeptical rookie cop, a chain-smoking greaser, and a determined young woman band together to save the world from […]