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Duck Skin
Feature Film — Coming-of-Age Family Drama
During a family reunion in West Virginia, a young introverted girl forms an obsession with her cousin’s new girlfriend, tests the boundaries of her newfound desires, and forges a bond with her secretive uncle amidst rising dysfunction.
COMPS: Gasman (Lynne Ramsay), Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold)
2027 Sundance Development Track Second Rounder
Winner of The Black List X Writers Guild Initiative Collyer Fellowship
Quarter-finalist Outstanding Screenplays Feature Competition
Blue Line Highways
Feature Film — Road Trip Drama
Margaret, a devout young woman in a religious Idaho community, is hit by a car and pronounced dead for 46 seconds…but she doesn’t see God. Her crisis of faith prompts a cross-country road trip with a stranger to find meaning in a travel book that saved her life.
COMPS: Paris Texas (Wim Wenders), Girl Interrupted (James Mangold), Old Joy (Kelly Reichardt)
Fish Bowl
Feature Film — Off-beat Coming-of-Age
When a withdrawn teenage kleptomaniac is accused of art theft and sent to a residential treatment center in Florida for struggling youth, she forms an unexpected friendship with a troubled 12-year-old germaphobe and plans an escape with him to fulfill their fantasies of going to the beach.
COMPS: Short Term 12 (Destin Daniel Cretton), Florida Project (Sean Baker)
The Catechism
Half-Hour — Comedy
Freshly expelled from public school, agnostic preteen Darcy struggles to fit in at a repressed Catholic middle school. But, when she captures a scandalous photo of the heartthrob school priest, Darcy is suddenly catapulted to the top of the food chain.
COMPS: Pen15, Derry Girls