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BraveMaker Film Festival
Inspired by the voices not always heard, our film festival features a full weekend packed with short and feature films, panel discussions, workshops, parties and community engagement. It will open your mind, touch your heart and challenge you to see the world differently through the power of brave storytelling. Our films will highlight unique and relevant stories of justice, beauty, spirituality, diversity and equality. We seek to feature and represent women filmmakers, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community.
Happening Now
BraveMaker Film Festival
Inspired by the voices not always heard, our film festival features a full weekend packed with short and feature films, panel discussions, workshops, parties and community engagement. It will open your mind, touch your heart and challenge you to see the world differently through the power of brave storytelling. Our films will highlight unique and relevant stories of justice, beauty, spirituality, diversity and equality. We seek to feature and represent women filmmakers, people of color and the LGBTQ+ community.
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Festival de Cannes
DC Independent Film Festival
FilmQuest
Meet the 2026 SXSW Filmmakers
JJ Gerber
Director
Boots Riley
Director, Producer
Josephine Decker
Director, Executive Producer
Johnny Rey Diaz
Director, Showrunner
Chandler Levack
Director, Screenwriter
Peter Warren
Director, Producer
Kevin Bacon
Actor, Director
Corbin Bernsen
Actor, Showrunner
Oliver Bernsen
Director
Rachael J. Morrison
Director
Jay Duplass
Director, Producer
BenDavid Grabinski
Director, Screenwriter
Charlie Traisman
Director, Producer
Sundance 2026 Award Winners
Josephine
2025
Nuisance Bear
2026
Shame and Money
2026
To Hold a Mountain
2026
The Incomer
2026
TheyDream
2025
American Pachuco: The Legend of Luis Valdez
2026
HOLD ONTO ME (Κράτα Με)
2023
One In A Million
2026
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2026
The Baddest Speechwriter of All
2025
Crisis Actor
2026
Jazz Infernal
2025
The Boys and the Bees
2025
The Story of Documentary Film
2026
Living with a Visionary
2026
Paper Trail
2026
The Liars
2025
In The Blink of An Eye
2021
Who Killed Alex Odeh?
2026
Take Me Home
2026
Verified Filmmakers on Cindee
Mylissa Fitzsimmons
Producer, Writer, Director
Kristin Slaysman
Actor, Screenwriter
Anna-Elizabeth Shakespeare
Writer/Director
H. Nelson Tracey
Writer & Director
Kelsey Taylor
Director, Writer
Ava Acres
Actress & Filmmaker
Chelsea Bo
Director / Producer
Adam Lee
Producer, Cinematographer
Sean Drummond
Founder / Producer
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Meet the 2026 Sundance Filmmakers
Rachael J. Morrison
Director
Josef Kubota Wladyka
Director, Screenwriter
Elizabeth Wolff
Director, Producer
Mohammed Ali Naqvi
Director, Producer
Arielle Knight
Director, Producer
Ben Proudfoot
Director, Producer
Stephen Curry
Director, Producer
Riz Ahmed
Creator, Executive Producer
Liz Sargent
Director, Screenwriter
Kogonada
Director, Screenwriter
Casper Kelly
Director, Screenwriter
Livia Albeck-Ripka
Director, Producer
Padraic McKinley
Director, Editor
Trending Filmmakers
Mylissa Fitzsimmons
Producer, Writer, Director
Dustie Carter
Director
Stephen Curry
Director, Producer
Olivia Wilde
Actor, Director
Riz Ahmed
Creator, Executive Producer
Matthew Puccini
Director, Screenwriter
Antoine Fuqua
Director, Producer
Chelsea Bo
Director / Producer
Ben Proudfoot
Director, Producer
Barbara Kopple
Producer, Director
Film Fatales Members @ Sundance 2026
Poh Si Teng
Producer, Executive Producer
Barbara Kopple
Producer, Director
Anna Baumgarten
Director, Screenwriter
Janay Boulos
Director, Screenwriter
Josephine Decker
Director, Executive Producer
Alysa Nahmias
Producer, Director
Petra Biondina Volpe
Director, Screenwriter
Beth de Araújo
Director, Screenwriter
Cristina Costantini
Director, Producer
Gabriela Osio Vanden
Director, Cinematographer
Vera Miao
Director, Screenwriter
NB Mager
Director, Screenwriter
Natalie Erika James
Director, Screenwriter
Liz Sargent
Director, Screenwriter
Alexandria Stapleton
Director, Producer
Cathy Yan
Director, Screenwriter
Abby Ellis
Producer, Editor
Elaine del Valle
Screenwriter, Writer