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Courtney Cochran
Film Title: Never Homeless Before 1492
Logline: The Wall of Forgotten Natives addresses the multifaceted conversations and issues that our unsheltered relatives face, and why Indigenous people are homeless on their own homeland.
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Joua Lee Grande
Film Title: Spirited
Logline: A Hmong American filmmaker searches to reconnect with her community’s shamanic traditions while working to build connections across racial, cultural and generational lines.
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Pallav Kumar
Film Title: Second Opinion
Logline: When a life-threatening misdiagnosis sends filmmaker Pallav Kumar to the hospital, their experience as a subject of prejudice sparks a journey to connect with other victims of medical racism--and to unveil the white supremacist foundations of the US healthcare system.
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Destiny Roberts
Title: Steadfast
Logline: Minnesota's own Terrance “Big T” Walker was a good kid that made some bad decisions growing up that ultimately led him to his Destiny… A professional boxer from Saint Paul with so much to fight for and fight through as a black man. This documentary follows his journey alongside getting to know his personal story as he gets ready for his very first professional hometown Match.
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Francisco Sanchez
Film title: Beneath the Foundation
Logline: Beginning young as grassroots organizers immigrants from opposite sides of the world turn their love for each other and their community into a thriving cultural arts center in the heart of St. Paul's East Side after overcoming adversity in building a family, taking back space for cultural practice and purchasing a building.
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Yasmin Yassin
Film Title: Dhaanto
Logline: This is a story about a hidden culture-bearer living in the community. Mahmoud is a dance troupe coach who holds the knowledge of traditional Somali dances and is passing it along to waves of young Somali Americans