The 2026 Project Spotlight
We invite producers and directors to explore this curated selection of exceptional scripts and films. Our mission is to facilitate direct, seamless correspondence between you and the visionary auteurs behind these works. To support the future of indie cinema, we provide this connection service at zero cost to you. Dive into these 2026 highlights and discover the creative partner for your next masterpiece.
Cuba es Mi Patria: The Homeland I Keep Inside
As a result of tensions between the United States and Cuba, Cuban Americans have experienced exceptional identity and relational challenges that have persisted throughout their lives. Cuban Americans have remained cut off from their homeland, yet they continue to keep it psychologically present. Based on Dr. Rose M. Perez’s research employing the ambiguous loss framework, the film educates viewers on the historical and political backdrop leading to the post-1959 exodus that continues to the present day through the personal stories of Cuban Americans depicting how they cope with the loss of homeland and family separation. Through the interviewees’ voices, this documentary tells the adjustment stories and coping strategies Cuban emigres employ. This film will become an effective tool for caregivers, educators, and researchers to understand, on an emotive level, the depth and longevity of this traumatizing loss. By demonstrating the effect of Cuban Americans’ lifelong struggle with separation, the stories told in this film increase awareness about the “Ambiguous Loss of homeland” and suggest practical strategies for coping with this chronic, traumatic type of loss.
Rose M. Perez, PhD, MBA, Executive Producer, Director, Writer
Dr. Rose M. Pérez has recruited and interviewed all film participants for this, her first film. The structure for this film was developed based on her work with approximately 100 Cuban Americans over the past ten years. Dr. Pérez has published academic articles in social work and psychology journals based on her research on the adaptation of immigrants and refugees to US society. At Fordham University, she has taught social work courses, including research, human behavior, spirituality, and empowerment practice with immigrants and refugees. Her research and teaching are informed by her interdisciplinary education and experience in the social sciences and business administration. She holds two master’s degrees and a doctorate from the University of Chicago and an MBA from the University of Michigan. She has clinical experience working with acculturating adults, children, and couples around issues of subjective well-being, psychological distress, and familial violence. Her work on this film is informed by her own emigration from Cuba when she was eight years old.
I wrote, directed, and produced a film based on my research interviews with over 80 Cuban emigres. The power of film allows for the emotive aspects of my research to be felt in a more meaningful way than the written word.
Hollywood Actor Jobs Infomercial
Infomercial video teases the Workshop which shows student actors how one can become employed as full-time Hollywood talent.
“There’s enough work in this Town for everybody . . . you just have to know how to apply” Phillip E. Walker – MFA
Mr. Walker calls himself a “reluctant filmmaker” due to the fact that he did many tasks on the more than ten (10) short films which he has directed or produced because he was unable to secure capable artists who were willing to apply their craft to tell stories in which he is interested. Extremely well trained and experienced through directing more than 100 theatre productions, Walker’s earned Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting, coupled with experience performing in more than 2000 different California productions during the past decade, makes him fully capable of acting in his films. Furthermore, Phil has mastered the marketing of short films in the independent festival circuit, information he shares in his http://FilmSubmitSuccess.com Workshop. Hoping to only perform and market plus finance any of his future productions, Phillip E. Walker is always looking for accomplished artists who are willing to apply their trade in helping PhilE tell his own stories.
Producing films because of their subject matter, Phillip E. Walker’s “Hollywood Actor Jobs” introduces the up coming “Actors Get More Auditions” online class.
VAIVEN
Presented in 2024 at the iconic Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum in Mexico City, VAIVÉN explores the delicate interaction between light, shadow, architecture, serendipity and emotion. The exhibition stands out for its innovative use of photographic prints on transparent fabrics, which sway with the wind, transforming with light and the viewer’s presence. Their shifting contours create new meanings, blurring the boundaries between image, space, and perception
Through this intimate body of work, the artist invites viewers into a contemplative experience where memory and awareness intertwine. The exhibition’s title, meaning “sway,” symbolizes the creative process—one that oscillates between certainty and instinct. By layering images and transparencies, she opens a space for coincidence, connection, and the dissolution of limits, offering a shared moment of reflection and transformation.
She graduated from the School of Photography and Image of Valencia (Spain) in 1992 and began her professional career as a photographer at Castellón Diario newspaper. In 2000, she founded the photography school Fábrica de Imágenes and the cinematography school Solaris in Morelia, Michoacán, Mexico. Since 2003, she has worked as a still photographer and behind-the-scenes documentarian, and since 2005, as a director of photography and documentary filmmaker. She is a member of Apertura DOP, the Association of Film Cinematographers in Mexico.
She has always combined professional and personal work, with a particular interest in micro-stories of human beings who, through their daily lives, become protagonists of unique and compelling narratives. Additionally, she explores the landscape as a subjective construction of human perception—a space that does not exist without our gaze and that shapes the way we feel and construct our identity.
FEATURE-LENGTH FICTION FILMS
2020. ALMAS ROTAS (Broken Souls)
98 min
Directed by: Juan Pablo Arroyo Abraham.
2016. DÍA SEIS (Day Six)
110 min
Directed by: Juan Pablo Arroyo Abraham.
2013. JANUARY
90 min
Directed by: Adrián González Camargo.
FEATURE-LENGTH AND MID-LENGTH DOCUMENTARIES
2024. WATER POLO MICH
Work in progress
Directed by: Anna Soler Cepriá.
2019. ARCHIVO CORDERO (Cordero Archive)
54 min
Directed by: Gabriela Zamorano.
2007. LOS DÍAS SIN JOYCE, UN DIRARIO IMAGINARIO (The days without Joyce, an imaginary diary) 63 min
Directed by: Agustín Oso Tapia, Anna Soler Cepriá.
FICTION SHORT FILMS
2024. BERDADERO
Work in progress
Directed by: Carolina Valencia.
2015. TIRITAS DE PAPEL (Paper Bandages)
15 min.
Directed by: Yadira Arellano Mendoza.
2015. SOBRE RUEDAS (On Wheels)
12 min
Directed by: Agustín Oso Tapia.
2008. Gatillero (Gunman)
8 min.
Directed by: Jesús Alarcón-Castellanos.
2003. PROHIBIDO PROHIBIR (Forbiden to forbid)
13 min
Directed by: Agustín Oso Tapia.
DOCUMENTARY SHORT FILMS
2024. VAIVÉN
15 min
Directed by: Anna Soler Cepriá.
2024. COCO Y MAGO
Work in Progress
Directed by: Alejandra Mata, Anna Soler Cepriá.
2020. I LES DONES FEIEN EINES? (And did women make tools?)
3:40 min
Directed by: Anna Soler Cepriá.
2014. MEMORIA QUE SE BORRA (A Faiding Memory))
9:00 min
Directed by: Anna Soler Cepriá
MUSIC VIDEOS
2023. COLOR PARAÍSO by singer Xía
4:30 min
Directed by: Leonor Quiroga.
2016. ¿DÓNDE ESTÁS? (Where are you) by Caballero Reynaldo for the CADUD project by Javier Corcobado
7 min
Directed by: Agustín Oso Tapia.
2014. LA NANA DE LOS NERVIOS by Mono Desnudo
3 min
Directed by: Anna Soler Cepriá.
2013. TENGO UN MARTILLO ESTROPEADO (I Have a Broken Hammer) by Mono Desnudo
3:40 min
Directed by: Anna Soler Cepriá.
2012. QUE TODOS SALGAN ASÍ (May Everyone Turn Out Like This) by Mono Desnudo
3:30 min
Directed by: Anna Soler Cepriá.
2008. IT HURTS by The Jains
3:50 min
Directed by: Adam Selo.
2007. MUEVE EL CEREBRO (Move Your Brain) by La Karraska
4:35 min
Directed by: Agustín Oso Tapia.
OTHERS
2022. I AM A FOREST
Experimental
9 min
Directed by: Elida Maiques, Anna Soler Cepriá.
2014. UN QUEBRANTO (A Break)
Video poetry
13 min
Directed by: Itzia Pintado.
AWARDS
I AM A FOREST (Soy Bosque) – Experimental Short Film
2023. Honorable Mention at the Poor Cinema Festival.
BROKEN SOULS – Feature Fiction Film
2022. Best Cinematography. Indy Film Library Awards.
2021. Best Cinematography. Pantalla de Cristal Festival.
2021. Best Cinematography. Cannes International Independent Film Festival.
2021. Best Cinematography. CWIFF (Cinema of the World International Film Festival).
2021. Best Cinematography. FICT (Tequila International Film Festival).
2020. Best Cinematography. TUFILM (Tulum International Film Festival).
DAY SIX – Feature Fiction Film
2019. Best Cinematography Nomination. West Europe International Film Festival, Brussels.
2018. Best Cinematography. Queens World Film Festival, USA.
2018. Best Cinematography Nomination. Nice International Film Festival, France.
2017. Best Cinematography. FICT (Tequila International Film Festival).
2016. Best Cinematography Nomination. Västerås, Sweden International Film Festival.
ON WHEELS – Fiction Short Film
2016. Best Cinematography. FERATUM, Tlalpujahua Fantastic and Horror Film Festival.
THE DAYS WITHOUT JOYCE – Feature Documentary
2007. Best Documentary. Baja California Film Festival.
2007. Honorable Mention. Morelia International Film Festival.
2005-2006. Recipient of the State Co-Investment Grant.
Sandra Pereznieto’s photographic work integrates seamlessly into the spaces of the Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum, creating a composition of fleeting, unrepeatable moments shaped by chance, transparency, and the observer’s subjectivity.
DESCRIPTION:
A personal documentary perspective by Anna Soler Cepriá on Sandra Pereznieto’s photographic installation at the Diego Rivera Anahuacalli Museum.
For over a decade, Sandra has been crafting a deeply personal vision of the world, using photography as a mirror of her most intimate and introspective moments. At the same time, she has built a distinguished career as an architectural photographer, a path that led her to document the Anahuacalli Museum, whose expansion was designed by Taller de Arquitectura Mauricio Rocha.
Captivated by this space, she chose it as the ideal setting to exhibit her most personal photographic perspective. Her aim was to create a symbiosis between her images and the museum’s light, shadows, textures, sounds, and silences. Using a transparent medium for display, she allows the architecture itself to become part of the artwork, leaving room for chance to imprint its own magic on the experience.
Sandra invited Anna to document V A I V É N, merging their perspectives to craft an audiovisual piece that translates the sensory experience of navigating the corridors of the Anahuacalli Museum. Together, they invite the audience to journey through the emotions evoked by each image and the dynamic interplay between them.
The Sanguine
A crestfallen master and outcast servant rob the grave of a long dead warlord to find he’s returned to defend it.
Patrick McNerney and Daniel Jones have been collaborating partners in music, film, and other creative projects for many years, culminating in this debut film release under their own banner.
After collaborating on numerous music, television, and film projects, Daniel and I set out to create a short film entirely of our own—one driven by atmosphere, momentum, and story, with no wasted moments.
The Sanguine is a dark medieval fantasy-horror that uses allegory to explore fear, division, and the consequences of a society turning on itself. While rooted in genre and period, the themes are intentionally timeless.
The film was produced independently with virtually no financial resources, relying on in-house visual effects, practical production design, and an original classical score created specifically for the project. Building the film entirely in-house allowed us full creative control from concept through final cut.
We hope audiences experience the film as a journey—one that lingers beyond its final frame.