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Our Crowdfunder of the Week is They Returned, the sixth feature film from musician/filmmaker Ivan Noel. Like Noel’s earlier work,…
Eden, Megan Griffiths’ stunning new film, exists within the perverted—and unsettlingly pervasive—world of human sex trafficking. A lucrative global industry,…
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Writer/director Michael Connors' Allegiance (Working Title: Recalled), based on his award-winning 2006 thesis short of the same name, follows Lieutenant…