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A film based on the 2024 Student-People's Uprising.
Dec 2025
A comedy about a failing pub, a divided community and a grieving family whose lives are changed by brewing real ale and entering the Great British Beer Awards.
Feb 2026
With his signature gospel sound on the Hammond B3, Billy Preston doublehandedly elevated the greatest artists of his time – from the Beatles to the Rolling Stones, from Aretha Franklin to Eric Clapton, from Ray Charles to Barbra Streisand to Sly and the Family Stone. In our film, we explore Billy's career and influence on generations of musicians, as he scored several number one hits of his own and became one of the most sought-after musicians in the world. He did all of this as a soul divided -- by his deep roots in the church, in constant conflict with his identity as a gay Black man, searching for a family of his own that would accept him for who he was.
Jan 2026
In a forgotten theater, a haunted man's past flickers back to life-forcing a final reckoning.
2026 Puregold CinePanalo Film Festival finalist
Aug 2026
This documentary weaves together two stories of disappearance: that of Atzin Molina, my high school friend who vanished in 2019, and that of Atzin, the indigenous Totonac rain deity, believed lost or dead due to oil-driven environmental devastation in Veracruz, Mexico. Through these two figures who share a name—one human, the other divine—the film explores the violence, loss, and grief that pierce through contemporary life in Mexico.
May 2026
In war, people's lives are at stake; in this world, people are the object of a child's whim, which can lead many to break their worldview... literally.
Dec 2026
Apr 2027
Apr 2026
On a quiet shore, a musician burdened by regret stumbles upon an old telephone, one that offers him a haunting chance to revisit the life he thought he’d lost forever.
Oct 2027
A man in manila and came home to protect his uncle from evil and someone destroying their business and a bad guy and they showed their kungfu skills and they succeeded.
Nov 2027
Edgar wakes up in the caravan without knowing how he got there. He discovers that he is at the lake where he spent his childhood. However, the place that created so many beautiful memories does not look the same.
Oct 2026
In the early hours of June 5, 2002, 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was abducted from her bedroom in Salt Lake City, Utah, igniting one of the most intense and widely covered missing-person cases in American history. Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart is a gripping documentary feature that takes viewers inside the real story — told in Elizabeth’s own words and through exclusive interviews with her family, investigators, and those closest to the case.
A case of mistaken identity lands solitary gas attendant Serhii in heaven. To earn his way back, he's tasked with locating an individual whose life he can positively impact, spurring his pursuit to reconnect with the father he never met.
When a messy millennial underachiever accidentally gets alien-pregnant, she must overcome skeptical doctors, a useless baby daddy, and her oversharing mum in order to survive and reclaim her life. Based on the short film of the sane name.