Joseph Prouse

Sundance Film Festival
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At Milan’s Niguarda public hospital, the unconventional Dr. Bini leads a bold mission overseeing aspiring parents undergoing in vitro fertilization and the journeys of individuals reconciling their bodies with their gender identities.
Director Gianluca Matarrese
2025 France/Italy/Switzerland

Sundance Film Festival
Enigma
Two legends contested their identities as women in the court of public opinion: April Ashley, who was immortalized as a trailblazer by embracing her transgender history; and Amanda Lear, who has consciously denied and obfuscated her history for decades.
Director Z. Drucker
2024 U.S.

Sundance Film Festival
El Norte
After their family is murdered by the government in a massacre during the Guatemalan Civil War, Indigenous siblings Rosa and Enrique flee up “Norte” to the United States for a chance at survival. When they arrive, they find life in the U.S. is not what they had hoped for.
Director Gregory Nava
2025 U.S.

Sundance Film Festival
East of Wall
After the death of her husband, Tabatha — a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer — wrestles with financial insecurity and unresolved grief while providing refuge for a group of wayward teenagers on her broken-down ranch in the Badlands.
Director(s) Kate Beecroft
2024 U. S.

Sundance Film Festival
Coexistence, My Ass!
Comedian Noam Shuster Eliassi creates a personal and political one-woman show about the struggle for equality in Israel/Palestine
Director(s) Amber Fares
2025 United States/France

Sundance Film Festival
Chasers
At a Los Angeles house party, an aspiring musician pursues her crush through a crowd of hopeful dreamers chasing empty promises.
Director(s) Erin Brown Thomas
Cast Ciarra Krohne, Louie Chapman
2025 United States

Sundance Film Festival
BULLDOZER
An undermedicated, chronically impassioned young woman lurches from crisis to crisis of her own making.
Director(s) Andrew Leeds
Cast Joanna Leeds, Mary Steenburgen
2024 United States

Sundance Film Festival
Atropia
When an aspiring actress in a military role-playing facility falls in love with a soldier cast as an insurgent, their unsimulated emotions threaten to derail the performance.
Director(s) Hailey Gates
Cast Alia Shawkat, Callum Turner
2025 United States

April

Nina is an obstetrician at a maternity hospital in Eastern Georgia. After a difficult delivery, an infant dies and the father demands an inquiry into her methods. The scrutiny threatens to expose Nina’s secret side job — visiting village homes of pregnant girls and women to provide unsanctioned abortions.
Director(s) Dea Kulumbegashvili

Sundance Film Festival
André is an Idiot

André, a brilliant idiot, is dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy. His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence, and insatiable curiosity, send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humor.
Director(s) Tony Benna

Sundance Film Festival
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Happy Birthday to indie film renaissance man Mark Duplass!
With 20+ Sundance projects under his belt as an actor, writer, director, and producer, we toast the Festival king!

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Attention Indigenous Filmmakers! Are you working on a narrative feature or episodic pilot? Apply now to the 2025 Native Lab Fellowship for the opportunity to develop your projects. Deadline to apply is December 23. Apply now: sndnc.org/native-lab