Pitch Day 2 (Nov 15)

Moderator: Sian-Pierre Regis (Raising Adults)

Industry Panelists: Marcos Acevedo (AJH Films), Monika Navarro (Firelight Media), Shoshi Korman (Cinephil), Freja Johanne Norgaard Sorensen (DR Sales)

Untitled Yemen Project, Director: Mariam Al-Dhubhani

In Yemen, four brothers come of age under the shadow of war. Untitled Yemen Project is a lyrical portrait of trauma, memory, and quiet resilience.

Nine, Directors: Rachael DeCruz, Jeremy Levine / Producer: Rajal Pitroda   

Nine is a timeless story of a man and his father figure, who found each other in the harshest of environments. Illuminating how love can serve as an act of resistance, Nine is a poetic exploration of family, community, and masculinity.

The School of Hope, Director: Amy Martinez / Producers: Chelsea Hernandez, Amy Martinez

At the U.S.-Mexico border, where cartel violence and U.S. policy collide, a one-room school in a migrant shelter becomes a lifeline for three asylum-seeking children and the school founders who fight to keep it open.

Moderator: Sian-Pierre Regis (Raising Adults)

Industry Panelists: Marcos Acevedo (AJH Films), Monika Navarro (Firelight Media), Shoshi Korman (Cinephil), Freja Johanne Norgaard Sorensen (DR Sales)

Sing at My Wake, Director: Jonathan Pickett / Producers: Jonathan Pickett, Josh Polon

At the world’s first human composting facility, a passionate millennial team works to expand access to sustainable deathcare in an industry that’s slow to reform and rife with environmental harm. Sing At My Wake follows their efforts while chronicling the emotional journey of a family embracing this novel end-of-life option.

Son of Lazio, Director: Frank Martin / Producers: Sophie Outhwaite, Jamie Clark

An observational coming-of-age documentary about football, masculinity, and European national populism.

A Song Without Home, Director: Rati Tsiteladze / Producer: Olga Slusareva

A visually immersive journey of a young trans woman seeking freedom in Europe and her mother facing estrangement in Georgia, two lives bound by love, longing, and the search for self-liberation across divided worlds.

Moderator: Sian-Pierre Regis (Raising Adults)

Industry Panelists: Marcos Acevedo (AJH Films), Freja Johanne Norgaard Sorensen (DR Sales), Sanjay Sharma (Marginal), and Megan Gelstein (Catapult Film Fund)

Sons of The River, Director: Katyayani Kumar / Producer: Eric Cook

In India’s Bhakra Canal, suicides surge and divers, not the state, retrieve the dead. At the center is one diver, torn between survival and service, who unravels as he exposes a hidden world of power, exploitation, and moral reckoning.

Barrio Television, Director: Christina DiPasquale / Producers: Dawne Langford, Kristofer Ríos

Barrio Television reveals how Puerto Rican activists seized New York–area PBS station WNET/Channel 13 in 1972 to launch “Realidades,” the first local and national bilingual Latino public-affairs series—igniting an enduring struggle for authenticity and power in American media.

Upstream, Directors: Natalie Berger, Moira Fett / Producers: Martha Gregory, Sean Weiner

At the edge of youth and adulthood, young men converge at a remote salmon conservation site along Alaska’s Taku River. Cut off from the outside world, they must rely on each other—and the lessons of the salmon—to confront turbulent pasts and come-of-age.

Moderator: Sian-Pierre Regis (Raising Adults)

Industry Panelists: Marcos Acevedo (AJH Films), Freja Johanne Norgaard Sorensen (DR Sales), Sanjay Sharma (Marginal), and Megan Gelstein (Catapult Film Fund)

Vicissitudes of Light, Director: Marcel Beltrán / Producer: Paula Gastaud

A fifteen-year journey of friendship and investigation, during which the initial mystery transforms into the recovery of a legacy that was destined to disappear.

Widows of Living Husbands, Director: Diego Kelmann, Jussara Costa / Producer: Clelia Bessa

In Brazil’s rural Jequitinhonha Valley, parents struggle to remain present in their families’ lives, even as they’re forced to spend long months working far from home. This historical cycle of migration leaves deep marks across the entire community.

You Should Never Blink, Director: Leah Thompson, Jillian Schultz / Producers: Jillian Schultz, Leah Thompson

Corita Kent, the “pop art nun,” dazzled 1960s America with her joyful art and radical teachings, becoming a counterculture icon who challenged the art world and the Catholic church. You Should Never Blink excavates the legacy of her unconventional life.

See the other 12 projects featured in Pitch Day 1 on Nov. 13.