Jon Portman

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    How We Launched Our Film Online: The Thomas Beale Cipher

    On January 24th, 2011, Jason Sondhi and I released our festival-winning short film, The Thomas Beale Cipher, out onto the great wild web. Like many filmmakers, I wrestled with the decisions of when and how to put my film online.

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    Documentary Ben Berman

    Heads

    Jack Cox is a prolific NYC based sculptor. But he's experiencing problems.

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    Dark Comedy Andrew Stephen Lee

    Manila is Full of Men Named Boy

    As Michael Jackson’s televised funeral plays throughout The Philippines despite terrorist attacks in the south, an estranged son purchases a child who can drink and smoke to impress his father.

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    Horror Minsun Park & Teddy Tenenbaum

    Koreatown Ghost Story

    A woman entertains a macabre marriage offer that would let her pursue her dreams, for better or for much much worse.

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    Dark Comedy Andrew Fitzgerald

    I Know You From Somewhere

    A young woman incurs the wrath of the internet after inadvertently becoming a viral sensation.

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    Sci‑Fi Joe Sill

    The Cloud Racer

    Set in the near future, a young man and his blue-collar mechanic father compete in a qualifier for an advanced racecraft competition, through a treacherous course against elite racers that runs through the now "Ghost City" of Los Angeles.

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    Documentary Skye Fitzgerald

    Lifeboat

    One of the nominees for Oscar, volunteers from a German nonprofit risk the waves of the Mediterranean to pluck refugees from sinking rafts in the middle of the night.

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    Comedy Giancarlo Fiorentini & Jonathan Grimm

    36 Questions

    Two strangers participate in an experiment designed to make them fall in love by asking each another 36 increasingly personal questions.

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    Drama Caitlyn Greene

    August

    Deep in Louisiana's swampland, a woman wakes from a fever dream where it has been August for 16 years.

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    Sci‑Fi David Weinstein

    Envoy

    A young boy discovers a deadly alien creature and winds up entangled in a top secret government operation.

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