2024 Feature Selections by Genre
Drama
Across Enemy Lines – Julia Bergeron
Drama Feature
Contact: julia.bergeron@gmail.com
When a resilient WWII army nurse and her team are shot down over Nazi-occupied Albania in winter 1943, they make a harrowing escape over the treacherous Accursed Mountains and across hundreds of miles of enemy territory, relying on grit and the help of an Albanian opposition leader with his own agenda.
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Dream Cast
Theresa:
Thomasin McKenzie
Margaret Qualley
Florence Pugh
Claudia Jessie
Camden:
Rachel Zegler
Ariana Greenblat
Jenny Ortega
Bee:
Elle Fanning
Joey King
Cailee Spaeny
North:
Dominic Sessa
George MacKay
Joseph Quinn
Flyboy:
Nicholas Galitzine
Tom Blyth
Ewan Mitchell
Savior:
Kelvin Harrison Jr.
Algee Smith
Asante Blackk
Jharrel Jerome
Jet:
Raymond Ablack
Fabien Frankel
Staz Nair
Addie and Esther – Annie Wood
Drama Feature
Contact: TheWomensList@gmail.com
Addison, a sensitive teen artist, deals with the suicide of her mother by drawing and by searching for answers from a cantankerous eighty-five-year-old JuBu (Jewish/Buddhist) yoga teacher she meets at the park.
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Dream Cast
Addison: Odeya Rush
Esther: Tovah Feldshuh
Dare – Shea Butler
Drama Feature
Contact: TheWomensList@gmail.com
In an on-going game of “Dare,” a Beverly Hills rich kid finds himself on the mean streets of LA with no ID, no money, and no memory. His lifeline – a homeless teenage girl masquerading as a boy for her own safety, her eight-year-old brother, and a transvestite former Marine Medic, now a hooker. “Dare” is a first love, coming of age story about accepting responsibility and the meaning of family, friendship, love, and tolerance.
The Mercury 13 – Maria Burton
Drama Feature
Contact: Mercury13film@gmail.com
The Mercury 13 scripted feature tells the story of little-known heroes of the early days of the Space Race: the women who were tested to be astronauts at the same time as the Mercury 7 male astronauts, as well as the visionary scientist who championed them – people with the Right Stuff at the wrong time.
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Dream Cast
Jackie Cochran: Cate Blanchett
Jerry Cobb: Saoirse Ronan
Natalia Rising – Donna Bonilla Wheeler
Drama Feature
Contact: GNDPROD12@gmail.com
When a teen prodigy composer is squelched by her overprotective dad, she creates a new style of music with a vivacious singer and her psychic dog, in a win/lose battle for her autonomy.
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Dream Cast
Natalia: Latina/Indigenous up and comer TBD
Annie:
Faith Hill
Sara Bareilles
Cynthia Erivo
Rebel Wilson
Laura Passina
Fiona AppleNorman:
John Carroll Lynch
John Hawkes
Over The Hill – Laura Kemp
Drama Feature
Contact: laura_m_kemp@hotmail.com
When two women ride into the Montana wilderness to scatter a loved one's ashes, they must face their damaging past and death itself to earn a new shot at living.
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Dream Cast
Mojo:
Jamie Lee Curtis
Frances McDormandRosie:
Michelle Pfeiffer
Geena DavisToby:
Ben Foster
Aaron Paul
The Seahorse – Susan Brightbill
Feature
Contact: susanbrightbill04@gmail.com
A successful businesswoman’s well-ordered life is thrown into disarray when she’s forced to care for her estranged father, a notoriously difficult, acclaimed author in the early stages of dementia.
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Dream Cast
Campbell:
Rachel McAdams
Jennifer Aniston
Blake Lively
Carrie Coon
Carrie Mulligan
Kate Hudson
Anna Kendrick
Keri Russell
Kristin Wiig
Amanda Peet
Mandy MooreWells:
Kevin Kline
Jeff Bridges
John Goodman
Mandy Patinkin
Michael Douglas
Harrison Ford
Bryan Cranston
Michael Keaton
Seasons of the Dragon – Brusta Brown and John Mitchell Todd
Drama Feature
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Festivus4therestofus@protonmail.com
Four Chinese sisters survive the attack of the invading Japanese army during the Nanking Massacre of 1937. With nothing but their scars and their vengeance, the sisters find refuge behind the walls of a Buddhist Temple where a Shaolin Master trains them to avenge the death of their family; but when one embarks on a journey of revenge, you must dig two graves... They will dig far more than two.
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Dream Cast
Sook Yin: Michelle Yeoh
Master Si-Sheng: Jackie Chan
John Rabe: Nicholas Hoult
Jiao-Long: Ke Huy Quan
Summer of Diva Loca – Monika Moreno-Lapp
Drama Feature
Contact: TheWomensList@gmail.com
When Avalon’s mom leaves her at the projects for the summer, Avalon (15) is determined to find a way out. In navigating this new world, Avalon didn’t count on meeting Gilberto (17) — a first love with complications.
The Surveillance of Ordinary Things – Susan Brunig
Drama Feature
Contact: Sb.screenwritr@gmail.com
A middle-aged, suburban housewife in the midst of a dark, existential crisis decides to run away and end it all. But when she stumbles upon an unplugged community of creative misfits, she rediscovers the artist she once was.
Switch Track – Jenna Macari and Logan L. Russell
Drama Feature
Contact: TheWomensList@gmail.com
A lone wolf photographer adventures west on Route 66 toward the life she’s always wanted after a fatal diagnosis numbers her days. Along the way she picks up an unlikely travel buddy - a suicidal, yet otherwise healthy, young graduate.
Unimaginable – Paula Goldberg
Drama Feature
Contact: welltoldgold@gmail.com
When a woman who has lost her purpose in life is tasked with delivering a gift to her estranged father, she suddenly travels back in time to the horrors of the Nazi occupation in Poland. There, she confronts the demons holding both their lives hostage.
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Dream Cast
Elizabeth Olsen
Margaret Qualley
Anya Taylor Joy
Scarlett Johansson
Warbirds – Chris Hulen
Drama Feature
Contact: Chulen27@gmail.com
This high-flying WWII adventure follows a naive farm girl leaving the only life she's ever known to chase her dream of joining the elite Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), only to discover that dream threatened when she falls for a fellow female recruit.
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Dream Cast
Ginny:
Maya Hawke
Victoria PedrettiMaggie:
Charlotte Rothwell
Daisy RidleyGeorgia:
Joey King
Renee RappComm. Abernathy:
Jodie Foster
Olivia ColemanComm. Dodge:
Naomi Watts
Laura DernMajor Reeves: Matt Bomer
Willie: Kaitlyn Dever
Patsy: Jenna Ortega
Butch: Beanie Feldstein
Emma: Ella Hunt
Betty: Rachel Brosnhan
Mouse: Pauline Chalamet
When The Whale Comes – Pamela Winfrey
Drama Feature
Contact: pamelawinfrey100@gmail.com
When a 70-year-old hoarder becomes friends with a 14-year-old dope dealer they surmount hauntings, violence, and lies to conquer their own personal demons.
Horror
Crow House – Ellen Ireland
Horror Feature
Contact: eireland514@gmail.com
Alice is a washed-up former nun, full of regrets, who tutors a child with reading trouble. They live in a new house on an old foundation that buries a tragedy, and when evil seeps in and the child disappears, Alice learns that she’s not beyond redemption after all -- it’s waiting for her at Crow House.
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Dream Cast
Alice Campbell: Dakota Fanning
Henry Marsh: Colin Hanks
Frannie Marsh: Violet McGraw
Pagans – Catherine McGrotty
Horror Feature
Contact: catherinemcgrotty@gmail.com
Whilst planning her escape from the ‘Alcatraz’ of Magdalene Laundries, a pregnant teen uncovers an unholy secret about the order of Nuns watching over her.
Comedy
Freaky Furday – Lisa Kors
Live Action Feature
Contact: lisamkors@gmail.com
Cat-astrophe ensues when a vain, pampered Corgi and a scrappy, feral cat switch bodies right before a high-stakes dog show.
Romance & RomCom
Great With Kids – Leah Curney
RomCom Feature
Contact: leah@leahcurney.com
Meg, a single mother of two, is just trying to get through the day – until an unconventional babysitter shakes up her household and sparks possibilities for success, parenting and partnership she thought she'd given up on...
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Dream Cast
Meg:
Carrie Coon
America Ferrera
Stephanie Beatriz
Kerry WashingtonEileen:
Jean Smart
Allison Janney
Lorraine Toussaint
Emma Thompson
Mary Sibyl Hall House – Naomi Brodkin
Drama Feature
Contact: eric@gotham.com or ross@gotham.com
A stuck-in-the-past historian fights to save the house and legacy of an obscure 17th century writer by recruiting the subject’s great-great-great-great-great-great-nephew, serial online dater Gus, in this off-beat romantic comedy.
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Dream Cast
Kate: Kristen Wiig
Gus: Charlie Day
Historical & Biopic
Authoress – Carolyn Kras
Historical Feature
Contact: TheWomensList@gmail.com
Before she is a legend, Jane Austen is a struggling writer who has a complicated romance with a mysterious sea captain who inspires her final novel Persuasion.
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Dream Cast
Actors with a passion for stories about love and creativity.
The Stratford Wife – Sarah E. Sinclair
Historical Feature
Contact: TheWomensList@gmail.com
In Elizabethan England, a brilliant playwright enters into a devil's bargain with her fame-hungry husband to write plays under his name, but as the legend of William Shakespeare grows, she must fight him for creative control, even as she makes his name immortal.
Upstaged – Cynthia Riddle
Historical Biopic
Contact: cindir21@hotmail.com
A tale of friendship, jealousy, and survival as a legendary actress and her best friend battle each other for fame and love in the cutthroat world of theater.
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Dream Cast
Saoirse Ronan
Alicia Vikander
Hailee Steinfeld
Rebecca Ferguson
Lea Seydoux