Barbara Twist

Executive Director, Film Festival Alliance

Film Festival Alliance creates a collaborative global community for mission-driven film festivals. FFA advocates for a sustainable and inclusive environment for our industry within the cinema exhibition ecosystem and creates a powerful collective voice for film festivals and the people who run them.



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Ian Havens, a college swimmer, returns home to see his injured father and finds out that his family's business/local swim club is on the verge of being sold. Ian and his irresponsible older brother, Zaak, must overcome their differences in order to save the pool. Shark Tank is a comedy about competing, growing up, and making sacrifices.

Shark Tank

As Strong As You Stay is a drama about a young woman who wakes up to find her mother has moved in with her. The problem? Her mother has been dead for three months. In this not-so-ghostly story, Jane and her mother, Carol must deal with the often humorous, and occasionally melancholic moments that come with Carol's visit.

As Strong as You Stay

A film that examines the small western Michigan villages of Saugatuck and Douglas, towns the culture wars forgot. Nestled next to each other along the Kalamazoo River with populations of just over 1,000, these rural villages have a substantial, but decidedly minority, gay population.

everydayPeople

In a foster home run by kids with no adult supervision, Lucia, a seven-year-old misfit, awaits a pick-up that never comes, discovering the true meaning of home.

Lucia

A young boy with both a rare brittle-bone disease and autism. But what makes him truly unique is his joyous, funny, life-affirming world view that transforms and unites everyone around him.

The Unbreakable Boy

Sound to Sea

A New York City embalmer discovers a renewed sense of life upon the uncovering of a mysterious doppelgänger on his mortuary table.

Man in the Morgue

The story of NFL MVP and Hall of Fame quarterback Kurt Warner, who went from stocking shelves at a supermarket to becoming an American Football star.

American Underdog

Ambition and societal pressure propel an aspiring chef to leave his soulmate in Mexico and make the treacherous journey to New York, where life will never be the same.

I Carry You with Me

Created by exciting emerging filmmakers with 20th Digital Studio, these shorts take on topical issues and blend genres like horror, comedy, sci-fi and thriller.

Bite Size Halloween

A former banker, his actress wife, and their spirited daughter book a vacation at an isolated modern home in the Welsh countryside where nothing is quite as it seems.

You Should Have Left

The Other's Touch

When Nina fails to meet her goal in the final week of weight loss camp, she makes a deal with the devil that takes her on an unexpected adventure, through which she learns to see her body anew.

Bye Bye, Body

The evolution of the movie business over the past century, from penny arcades and nickelodeons, to the grand movie palaces built by the studios, and what happened over the years as they were challenged by television and cell-phone cinema.

Going Attractions: The Definitive Story of the Movie Palace

Alice

With two part-time jobs barely providing enough to keep up with her law school debt, Jessica finds her solution on a 'sugar daddy' dating site. But what was supposed to be a stop-gap until she finds a law job becomes complicated when she falls for someone her age yet begins to develop empathy for her wealthy benefactor.

Consideration

A young woman has long struggled to conceal a past traumatic event, but must relive it when the movie she attends violently comes to life, recreating the past and teaching her an important lesson.