Pitch Day (Thurs. Nov 12)

Moderator: Liz Nord (NYU Production Lab)

Industry Panelists: Amanda Lebow (Creative Artists Agency), Robert Chang (American Documentary | POV), and Dominic Davis (Sundance Institute).

Blindball, Director: Carla Borrás and Jessica Massa

From a rundown field in the Bronx to the World Cup in London, BLINDBALL follows the U.S. Blind Baseball Team’s quest for gold through a season of triumphs, setbacks, and the transformation that comes from daring to see differently.

Kamnop, A Treasure is Waiting For You, Directors: Kanitha Heng Snow & Guillermos Roques / Producer: Christian Johann Popp

KAMNOP follows a daughter and mother from Colorado to Cambodia in search of a long-lost treasure, buried during the first days of the Khmer Rouge genocide. It’s a quest to unearth what families bury and what they carry forward.

Moderator: Liz Nord (NYU Production Lab)

Industry Panelists: Amanda Lebow (Creative Artists Agency), Robert Chang (American Documentary | POV), and Dominic Davis (Sundance Institute).

Queens Ballroom, Directors: Siyi Chen & Hansen Chenhui Lin / Producers: Siyi Chen & Hansen Lin

In a New York ballroom, Asian American immigrants are transported through dance, revisiting worlds they left behind and lives created anew.

Winter Worm, Summer Grass, Directors: Srishti Lakhera and Amith Surendran / Producer: Srishti Lakhera

Three friends survived a glacial flood that swept away their Himalayan villages. Each summer they return to forage the prized caterpillar-fungus to fund becoming Indigenous rap artists. Their only road forward leads back through mountains that took everything from them.

Moderator: Alece Oxendine (Film Strategist)

Industry Panelists: Elaisha Stokes (Chicken & Egg Films), Dani Carlaw (Screen Scotland) and Nana Adwoa Frimpong (Breakwater Studios).

Big in Gazi Baba, Director: Pauline Blanchet / Producer: Kreshnik Jonuzi and Avdi Thachi

Raised as the son her family never had, Sadije (13) dominates as the only female wrestler in her North Macedonian club. But over four transformative years, can she reclaim her stolen girlhood and build a life on her own terms?

Father Hood F*cking Cares, Director: Joel Fendelman / Producer: James Sanchez, Luke Robins, and Alex Dale

A character study and moral inquiry of Father Jeff Hood, this a story of a man who routinely enters one of America’s most secretive institutions–the execution chamber–and witnesses repeated violence.

Moderator: Alece Oxendine (Film Strategist)

Industry Panelists: Elaisha Stokes (Chicken & Egg Films), Dani Carlaw (Screen Scotland) and Nana Adwoa Frimpong (Breakwater Studios).

HEAT, Director: Aicha Cheriff / Producer: Lola Kenet and Camilla Marchese González

HEAT is a lyrical portrait of the extraordinary and ordinary moments of three women who live in the LES projects in NYC. When the push towards privatization of public housing intensifies, each woman grapples with the meaning of home.

Newville, Director: Pisie Hochheim & Tony Oswald / Producer: Jonna McKone 

Ten siblings, ages 64 to 83, return to their deteriorating childhood home in rural Newville, New York, for the first time together in 35 years to decide whether to keep or sell it.