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What Haunts us
A widower named Sezemský, who was once a famous psychic, is brought out of retirement to solve the mysterious illness that’s befallen his goddaughter. He joins forces with her friend Petr to solve a decades old case of a murdered woman, whose body they discover.
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The Rebel Girls
Inspired by a true story of 15 young black girls who were “arrested” and imprisoned in a Civil War-era stockade in the summer of 1963 without charging them with a crime or notifying their parents of their whereabouts. A story of hope, courage, and Black Girl Magic. A moving tribute to the power of magical thinking, friendship, and fortitude in the fight for freedom and equality, told through sisterhood, humor, and love told through the eyes of fifteen girls who were on the frontline of history-making.
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So Dark The Sky
A scientist guards Earth's last seed vault after climate disasters destroyed plant life. When she receives a mysterious laptop with clues about a vanished activist, she must protect the vault while uncovering the truth.
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Lena lives a simple life in the Swiss Alps when she inherits a third of a British-Swiss mining empire. She and her friends join forces to revolutionize the corporation by closing a harmful coal mine in South Africa and granting employees shares of the family business. But their ambitious plan provokes Lena's sister and niece who will stop at nothing to preserve their privilege and the status quo.
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Settle
Young Alex decides to help her terminally ill father, a recently retired detective, solve the case of a missing woman with the hope that finding her will stop his obsession and allow them to spend some time together before he dies..
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Hitman
In this quietly gripping character study, a seasoned New York hitman arrives in a sleepy small town, only to be confronted by an artifact from his past. As his carefully controlled world unravels, he's forced to reckon with who he is and what he’s done. Hitman is a sharp, soulful take on identity, memory, and the cost of violence.
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HONORABLE MENTIONS
Cured
Directed by Verve Reposar
This dark comedic drama follows Toni, a young woman who was turned into a zombie during a global outbreak. She’s now in therapy with a suspicious therapist after being given a miracle drug, but we slowly learn that it hasn’t worked entirely and she still craves blood and maybe even brains.
Written & Directed by: Verve
Producer: Verve, Shawnee Smith
Cast: Verve, Shawnee Smith, Abigail Adams
Average Joe Goes Vegan
Directed by Verve Reposar
A food, travel, & lifestyle series that takes viewers on a journey to discover the best in plant-based food — from the point of view of your Average Joe meateater. This pilot examines all things mushroom in a fun and engaging format that will get your mouth watering.
Writer/Director/Producer: Ashley Scott Davison
Cast: Charlie Agar
2025 SCRIPT WINNERS
CASCADE
Directed by Verve Reposar
When the global communication grid is crippled by cascading satellite failure, a headstrong single mother must work with her know-it-all ex to find their son and survive the coming disaster.
Writer/Director/Producer: Ashley Scott Davison
Cast: Charlie Agar
ADMISSIONS
Written by Sonali Mehta
Admissions is a murder mystery about the slaying of a student at an isolated Northeast girls’ boarding school. The discovery of her body on the grounds of the neighboring all boys’ Military school puts a cadre of the school’s most mischievous boys right at the top of everyone’s suspect list. But in this twist-filled whodunit, no one is what they seem.
Writer/Director/Producer: Ashley Scott Davison
Cast: Charlie Agar
FORMERLY FAT HOUSEWIFE
Written by Carolyn Getches & Hilary C. Gish
After founding Weight Watchers International in the 1960s, a cash-strapped housewife gains fame and wealth, but ends up losing much more than pounds.
Writer/Director/Producer: Ashley Scott Davison
Cast: Charlie Agar
STARS AND STRIPES
Written by Andra Vebell
When a female clerk working for the Stars and Stripes newspaper in Algiers discovers that the paper is putting out propaganda stories, she strives to reveal the truth about a bloody war America is losing.
Writer/Director/Producer: Ashley Scott Davison
Cast: Charlie Agar
THE FORTUNE TELLER'S DAUGHTHER
Written by Krista Donargo & Raye Levine
A New York City based psychologist returns to her hometown of New Orleans, where she inherits a vacant psychic shop. Drawn into the abyss of magic and the occult, she finds herself at the center of an illegal, underground operation.
Writer/Director/Producer: Ashley Scott Davison
Cast: Charlie Agar
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The Painted Muse
Written by Farah Merani
Brilliant art restorer Samara Jaffer joins forces with an enigmatic wealthy collector on a dangerous mission to recover scattered Mughal miniatures before they fall into the wrong hands. As she navigates the morally complex world of high-stakes art theft and cultural reclamation, she must confront uncomfortable truths about power, legacy, and identity while unraveling a mysterious connection to her own past.
The Second Coming
Written by Michael William Hogan
100,000 years after humanity is wiped out by global conflicts, extraterrestrial-carried disease and natural disasters, four women and four men from differing racial-ethnic backgrounds are brought to life by an unseen entity and given a mission to repopulate a new, perfect Earth.
Bridget And The Boy-Bot
Written by Raven Petretti-Stamper
39-year old Bridget, notorious for her terrible taste in men, receives an obsessively devoted android boyfriend as a birthday gift from her well-meaning family, forcing her to decide whether true love can spark between a wild heart and a “nice” machine.
Choices
Written by Oisín Gilbert
CHOICES is a satirical, sci-fi, dark comedy, highlighting the human desire to crave success, find our perfect job, and the extreme ends in which we'll go to achieve it. Especially when an alien race hands it to humanity on a silver platter.
Secretary Of Arts
Written by Julie Sharbutt
When the new American President picks a small town political wonk and former election rival as the newly created Secretary of Arts & Culture, she’ll have to swim fast to prove to the sharks on all sides that she is suited for the job.
Plutona
Written by Bragi F Schut
A group of teenagers discover the body of the world's greatest superhero, Plutona, in the woods. But nothing is what it seems as a group of obsessed high school students jockey to glean her powers.
Raw Material
Written by Daria Price
A Depression-era series chronicling the passionate love affair between young writers amid the WPA's Federal Writers' Project—a New Deal work-relief program that employed legendary authors like Ralph Ellison—as they navigate their relationships and creative ambitions against the backdrop of a divided America recovering from economic collapse and heading towards World War II.
