9/2- 9/4/2022
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
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UNDER SAME SKY
FRIDAY 10:45 AM BLOCK 09/02

UNDER THE SAME SKY Alison Chace FRIDAY 11:45 AM BLOCK

Women from around the world share wisdom in a global pandemic about overcoming self doubt and love.

SHENANIGANS Lulu Valencia FRIDAY 11:45 AM BLOCK 09/02

A prominent attorney's trip to court is interrupted by unexpected shenanigans.

IT'S ANOTHER SEASON Harri James FRIDAY 11:45 AM BLOCK 09/02

It’s Another Season” is a narrative short that introduces us to Margaret, recently widowed, who is making a video to post online for the sale of her husband’s family farm. Struggling to move forward and to let go, Margaret is comforted by embracing the nature around her, an awareness of the changing seasons, and her heartfelt memories. Margaret finds the strength to accept life’s changes and move on— it’s another season.

MOVING OUT Rachel Earnest FRIDAY 11:45 AM BLOCK 09/02

In love with her best friend who has just married someone else, a young college student, still living at home, becomes confounded by faith and ultimately must risk telling her parents who she really is in order to save herself.

WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND Vicky Xingyu Gu FRIDAY 11:45 AM BLOCK 09/03

A young woman dreams about her earliest memory of her great-grandfather’s death. While walking home, she recalls her teenage self attending her paternal grandfather’s wake. She goes further back to her memories with her grandfathers as a child. Seeing her grandmothers mourning for her grandfathers in present day, she starts to let go and make peace with her past.

BENCHED Rachel Imbriglio FRIDAY 11:45 AM BLOCK 09/02

A young manny grapples with his conscience when he finds himself in the world of suburban drug dealing.

UNFORGOTTEN Sujin Kim FRIDAY 11:45 AM BLOCK 09/02

In World War II, 4 innocent Korean girls left their families following Japanese soldiers for different reasons. Half a century later, they decided to give their testimonies to the world telling their horrible memories in "Comfort Station” and life-long traumas.

MONSTER Henk Loorbach FRIDAY 11:45 AM BLOCK 09/02

Something seems wrong. Something unnerving that could be rooted in crime,
mental illness or plain dark fantasy. Monster explores non-linear storytelling through association, gut feeling and an unsettling sound track.

MAID OF HONOR Jessica McGaugh FRIDAY 1:15 PM BLOCK 09/02

When chosen as the maid of honor for her best friend's wedding, a stead-fast tomboy is forced
to try on traditional dresses that don't fit her identity, causing her to confront her womanhood.

SEQUIN Averi Israel FRIDAY 1:15 PM BLOCK 09/02

While waiting for the bus, a spirited young girl-- to the disapproval of her grandma-- befriends a familiar-seeming stranger after bonding over a small gift.

LINGERING Sarah J. Sommers FRIDAY 1: 15 PM BLOCK 09/02

After a tragic injury destroys her gymnastics career, Ava is trapped at home with her mom and no future. An unexpected visit from her estranged sister Nicole forces Ava to look beyond herself for a sense of direction.

HABITS Denise Poole FRIDAY 1:15 PM BLOCK 09/02

Old habits die hard, but when you try to change how do you know if your new decisions are the right decisions? Ashton finds out the hard way when her friend unexpectedly drops by to see her.

DOLLS Jill Narcisco and Cynthia Garcia Williams FRIDAY 1:15 PM BLOCK 09/02

When a reclusive, child-like woman is gifted a new doll and spends more time with it than her old one, the old doll reminds her who's alpha.

BILONGO Cynthia Garcia Williams FRIDAY 1:15 PM BLOCK O9/02

Based on Afro-Cuban Folklore: A dark spirit's hold comes to an end when she is forced to find a new home.

plAy Date Holly Soriano FRIDAY 1:15 PM BLOCK 09/02

A serial killer kidnaps a police detective and flirts with her.

THAT LAST GIRL Julia Bergeron FRIDAY 1:15 PM BLOCK 09/02

An innocent-seeming young woman starts a new job and begins to question her boss. When she is finally alone in the office, she goes on the hunt for answers to a mystery. What she finds changes both of their lives forever.

JOAN OF ARC Timothy Lott FRIDAY 1:15 PM BLOCK O9/02

After her first battle, Joan of Arc sees the massacre caused by her leading the army and her side winning. The picture of such unimaginable butchery makes her doubt wether she was really sent by God to save France.

THE MODERATOR Zhor Fassi-Fihri FRIDAY 2:45 PM BLOCK 09/02

After the murder of her two Scandinavian friends in Morocco, a Russian blogger decides to do her own justice.

LET ME GO THE RIGHT WAY Destry Allyn Speilberg FRIDAY 4:45 BLOCK 09/02

Convinced that his life is being manipulated by an outside source, Aiden makes an appointment with the amiable Dr. Kemp. Initially, Dr. Kemp is a calming, supportive presence, whose insights into Aiden’s difficulties promise an encouragingly positive prognosis. Over multiple sessions, however, the relationship between the doctor and his patient begins to take on new, ominous shades. As Aiden’s condition fails to improve - and, in fact, worsens - he begins to question kindly Dr. Kemp’s intentions.

GATEWAYS GRIND Jacquie Lawrence FRIDAY 4:45 PM BLOCK O9/02

GATEWAYS GRIND is the first ever documentary about the iconic Gateways Club, probably the most famous lesbian club in the world, made even more notorious by its ten-minute scene in the film ‘The Killing of Sister George’.

For the first time ever we go through the Gateways’ infamous ‘green door’ and see and hear from the women who found friends, sex and love in a small basement club just off the Kings Road in swinging Chelsea.

Won in a bet by Ted Ware in 1943 and open for over four decades, the club was a bohemian sanctuary from the start becoming lesbian only from 1967 under the watchful management of Ted’s wife, Gina Ware.

Our presenter, well-known writer and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, traces her first visit to the ‘Gates’ and follows the quest to award the club a Blue Plaque to commemorate its important place in lesbian history and visibility.

Contributors, some no longer with us, tell about the thrill they experienced as they descended the steep stairs into ‘the heaven’ of a crowd of women dancing with each other and discovered what the club’s signature dance, the ‘Gateways Grind’, was really about!

Fascinating and vivid testimonies from humorous to heart-breaking open up the secret history of this haven for women who could lose homes, jobs and their children if their truth became known.

Gina Ware Jnr, daughter of the proprietors, shares the inside story of how her mother Gina ran Gateways with friendly butch, American Smithy, a double act that made folklore, and why politics was banned from the club, leading the Gay Liberation Front to protest against its closeted setting.

We hear about the club’s famous clientele, including Patricia Highsmith and Pam St Clements and the revelation that the women-only policy even applied to Mick Jagger, who was desperate to be allowed in.

We hear inside stories from an eclectic range of women including lesbian artists, writers, actresses, film critics, journalists and politicians. Women who found love, sex and friendship in this enigmatic basement club.

The club’s personal and political codes of conduct including the infamous butch/femme dynamic are explored, together with the use of evocative drama set to a lusty soundtrack inspired by Dusty, starring queer actresses Lu Corfield (Last Tango in Halifax) and Victoria Broom (Marcella) whilst lush archive, both personal and newsreel, add to the texture of this heartfelt and revelatory feature-length documentary.

MAUTHAUS Betty Kaplan FRIDAY 7:00 PM BLOCK 09/02

When mental illness manifests itself in physical pain, a young woman's death wish comes true. Wandering in the pre-death antichamber, her soul encounters another dead one who already knows the rules of this toll house (from old German "Maut"). By activating echoes of physical senses they find her "skinsack" but the abandoned body is not ready to give up.

DAD AND THE FRIDGE BOX Mary Walsh FRIDAY 7:00 PM BLOCK 09/02

The story of how the old ones found a use for everything. When Jeannie lost her father, he is waked at home, his pine box laid across two chairs in the parlour. Jeanie’s father has long lived inside a box.

MINA Masha Bordovskikh FRIDAY 7:00 PM BLOCK 09/02

While the world is under global quarantine, a college student, Mina — stuck at her tiny NYC apartment — writes a story about her past. A story about herself. A story about a teenage girl whose life starts to fall apart once she gets sick with an eating disorder and transforms into a lifeless shadow. Mina then gets admitted into a treatment center to recover. Although to her it seems like the end of the world, it actually becomes the beginning of Mina’s journey towards finding her true self.

HAPPY PLACES Nich Frost FRIDAY 7:00 PM BLOCK 09/02

A mysterious stranger interrupts the evening of a seemingly normal family to visit his childhood home. But his presence progresses towards a possibly ominous outcome.

SHE'S THE PROTAGONIST Sarah Carlot Jaber FRIDAY 7:00 PM BLOCK O9/02

The Protagonist, by her given name, is presented to us in her natural environment : a jungle, sadly, often lacking in density. But today enough is enough! Being the mother, the secretary, the lover, the nanny, the baby bottle, the side piece of the main male character is no longer enough for our dear Protagonist ! Put on "mute" after the allocated time for female* characters in a film was reached, she runs away with her friend Voice-Over for a new journey with plenty of humor.

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2022 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
FEATURE FILMS, SHORT FILMS, SHORT SHORTS, DOCUMENTARIES, EXPERIMENTAL, SYNOPSIS

SHORT FILMS:

LET ME GO THE RIGHT WAY Destry Allyn Speilberg

BLUE MOON Diliana Deltcheva

MARY MEET GRACE Faryl Amadeus

LINGERING Sarah J. Sommers

DICK CONTROL Shequeta L. Smith

THIS BOND I AND BONDI Carolyn Saul

HAPPY PLACES Nich Frost, Mardell Elmer

MOVING OUT Rachel Earnest

POTLUCK LaLa Halsema

SOSTENME (HOLD ME) Julianna Leopold

TRUST Diane Lansing

RATS IN THE HOUSE Francesca Brice Martin

BEAUTY QUEEN Myra Aquino

MEDEA Fei Fei Zhong

ROAD DOGS Victoria Peralto Cruz

THE FOUR WALLS OF CHARLOTTE MOORELAND Joe Benedetto and Alison S. Strover

THE BLACK COP Cherish Oteka

MIXED GIRL Des Gray

MINA Masha Bordovskikh

THE MAN IN THE LONG BLACK COAT Vanessa Powers

AS BITTER AS SWEET Dorothy Xiao

#HONESTY (WEB SERIES) Ruggero Dalla Santa

SHORT SHORTS:

IT'S ANOTHER SEASON Harri James

WHAT WE JUST DON’T TELL OUR GIRLS Monica Crystal Ocegueda

MY DINNER WITH EDIE Adrienne Picciotto

WHAT THEY LEFT BEHIND Xingyu Gu

STRANGER IN THE MIRROR Elvia Susana Rubalcava

DOLLS Jill Narcisco and Cynthia Garcia Williams

PHOENIX 2021/ A SURVIVAL GUIDE Stilvi Psilopoulou

JOAN OF ARC Timothy Lott

WATER SERPENTS Vienna D’Amato Hall

HABITS Denise Poole

COLD CALL Katherine Cronyn

PLAY DATE Holly Soriano

SHENANIGANS LuLu Valencia

THAT LAST GIRL Julie Bergeron

YOU DRIVE ME CRAZY Vickie Rose Sampson

MAID OF HONOR Jessica McGaugh

BILONGO Cynthia Garcia Williams

AT LAST DESERTED Dana J. Dveris

CLING Mel Mah

QUIT YOUR DAY JOB Almayvonne Dixon

FLESH PEDDLER Jacqiue DiTroia

SEQUIN Averi Israel

PERIOD Jocelyn Ramos Sepulveda

DAD AND THE FRIDGE BOX Mary Walsh

UNFORGOTTEN Sujin Kim

MAUTHAUS Betty Kaplan

COMING OUT Tori Mcjunkin

BENCHED Rachel Imbriglio

MONSTER Henk Loorbach

ANG MOTEL Jonathan Matthews

THE SILENCE BREAKERS Rachel Grecho

INFATUATION Josh Whiteaker and Paloma Ronquillo

UNDER THE SAME SKY Alison Chace

SHE’S THE PROTAGONIST Sarah Carlot Jaber

ROGUE: THE WESTERN Carly Miller

FEATURE FILMS:

OFF THE RAILS Jules Williamson

MISSING TWIN Julia Jay Pierrepont

A PLACE AMONG THE DEAD Juliet Landau

GATEWAYS GRIND Jacquie Lawerence

THE MODERATOR Zhor Fassi-Fihri

TOGOLISA Alda loa Leifsdottir

THE VOICE OF THAIS David Casals Roma

FILMS

LADY DANGER Renée De Palma and Mary Mackey

A Synopsis by Renée De Palma and Mary Mackey
Based on an idea by Renée De Palma
Copyright 2021 Renée De Palma and Mary Mackey

“You won’t know you’ve met her until it’s too late!”

He’s an American citizen whose real name is Michael O’Connor, but he calls himself SHIVA
RAJ, and he’s the leader of a fanatical cult that wants to eliminate the human race and replace it
with a bio!engineered breed of super humans. Her real name is CAMILLE PARKER, but the
world knows her as LADY DANGER, and she’s going to stop him.
Lady Danger is not only stunningly beautiful; she’s a spy for ITAC, the world’s most elite
intelligence agency. She has been implanted with a computer chip that allows her to transform
herself at will from an ordinary woman named “Camille” into a “Shifter,” who can change into a
tiger, a fly, a table, or 167 other pre!programmed shapes, any time, any place, anywhere. She is
America’s most valuable secret weapon.
When Raj kills Camille’s husband ADAM and her original team of operatives, Camille retires
from spying to raise her young son ISAAC. Four years later, when Raj and his disciples strike
again, the ITAC Agency begs Lady Danger to come out of retirement, return to her duties, and
join the mission to bring Raj to justice.

WALKIN' ON TO FREEDOM’S LAND Julie Daniels

THE BURDEN OF LIGHT Helen Alexis Yonov

When an American woman (Anu) inherits an abandoned apartment in Paris from her Great Aunt (Hélène,) Anu is surprised to find an untouched 1939 time capsule. As she learns about the broken engagement that caused Hélène to leave Paris prior to World War II, Anu herself finds love where it’s least expected.

JUNKIE FEET Cynthia Garcia Williams and Jill Narcisco

A woman struggling with addiction must break ties with her abusive mother and leave the only world she's ever known to regain custody of her two kids.

THE HARD WAY Gabriele Grassl

A stupid act of revenge gets Alma, who tends to be aggressive, a
suspended sentence for negligent bodily harm. Then her husband and
her daughter abandon her and Alma loses all footing. Only when she
is at the bottom does she face her demons and take the first steps
towards a new peaceful life.

THE GOOD WOMAN Kathryn Boettcher & Logan Boettcher

2008 hasn’t been kind to BETH JOHNSTON 36. Her suburban dream life is in the dumper but
the optimistic, compulsively organized, pregnant PTA mom knows “everything will be fine.” Has
to be, she promised.
Pessimistic, alcoholic IRS auditor PHIL REMMING’S life has always been in the dumper.
Unfortunately for Beth and Phil, he’s her auditor. His $175,000.00 assessment certainly isn’t
fine.
Everyone has a limit. Beth hits hers, kidnaps Phil, wins big at the track, fights off gang
members, proves Phil wrong and learns everything doesn’t need to be fine. Christmas will be
merry anyway.

CASSIOPEIA Renée De Palma

TIME PIECE Renée De Palma & Mary Mackey

TIME PIECE
Written By Renée De Palma & Mary Mackey
Based on an idea by Renée De Palma

TIME PIECE is a moving, compassionate screenplay designed to increase awareness of Veterans dealing with the long lasting mental and physical scars they carry after their service, and the vital importance of love, support, and understanding to the recovery process.
This compelling love story is about a former Army Second Lieutentant's extraordinary experience during WWII (DAVID), and ROSE, the woman who captures his heart and mind. Their stand reflects how proud he feels having served his country with great gallantry in the European Theatre of the Second World War. We can see his physical wounds but not the wounds carried much deeper inside his mind. Only ROSE can really "see" him.
The Writer/Director of TIME PIECE plans to make the film and distribute FREE copies to as many Veteran organizations as possible as a fundraiser for much needed Veterans services.
Fact: Nearly half the veterans diagnosed with depression, anxiety, and PTSD are not treated (National Academies, Institute Of Medicine)
Fact: 22 Veterans commit suicide each day. The group with the highest member of suicides is men ages 50-59. (Department Of Veteran Affairs)
Fact: 30% of soldiers develop mental problems within 3 to 4 months of being home. (National Center For PTSD)
Please help us Produce this film and increase awareness of the devastating effects depression, anxiety, and PTSD has on our Veterans' lives and the lives of their families.

A SCOTTISH GEM Yvonne Condrau

This is a compelling, true story about Carole, an adventurous,
defiant Scottish mother.
1972 – Port Glasgow, Scotland (in black and white) – it reveals
the hardship that Carole and her four siblings endure during
their childhood caused by their embittered, single-parenting
mother.
Years later, Carole eventually gives in to marrying her Prince
Charming Richard aka Dick, giving birth to Kristy and Joseph, and
moving into her dream house to live “happily ever after,” or so
she thought.

GRACE O’MAILEY-PIRATE QUEEN OF IRELAND Carla Robyn Clark

Based on the life of Grace O'Malley (1530 - 1603), this television series follows Grace from age 10 into early adulthood and shows the beginning of how she became the rebel folk hero known as 'The Pirate Queen of Ireland'.

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2022 OFFICIAL SELECTIONS
WRITTEN WORD

PILOT/TV:

DOWN WITH IT Melanie Sovran Wolfe

ILLARI OF THE ANDES Giulie Speziani

LOUDER THAN LIFE Wendy Bain

GRACE O’MALLEY-PIRATE QUEEN OF IRELAND Carla Robyn Clark

A THOUSAND COLORS Jada Ivey

DEMOLITION Brooke Markham

LEGEND AND THE VITAMITES Lisa Pha G

SHORT FILM SCRIPTS:

TIME PIECE Renee De Palma and Mary Mackey

MISS PERFECTION Layla Merritt

KAREN: WHITE, WOKE AND LOOKING FOR GOOD CUSTOMER SERVICE Shannon Penrod

FLUID Ryan Huang

SMOKE SIGNALS Tiffany Abreu

SYNOPSIS:

GIRLS&BOIS April Eliza Tisby

CASSIOPEIA Renée De Palma

THE HARD WAY Gabriele Grassl

FULL FEATURE SCREENPLAYS:

WALKIN' ON TO FREEDOM’S LAND Julie Daniels

SLEEPER CELL Ray Jones

JUNKIE FEET Cynthia Garcia Williams and Jill Narcisco
A SCOTTISH GEM Yvonne Condrau

THE BURDEN OF LIGHT Helen Alexis Yonov

LADY DANGER Renée De Palma and Mary Mackey

THE GOOD WOMAN Kathryn Boettcher and Logan Boettcher

ON THE CORNER OF EDEN AND GRACE Marsha Rosenzweig Pincus

THE UNDERWORLD QUEEN Ariella Blum-Lemberg

FALLING FOR YOU Evie Abat

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