For Your Consideration
As Awards Season continues, we want to congratulate these Film Fatales members on their success thus far and uplift their active awards campaigns. We are all rooting for you!
Awards and nominations can have lasting career impacts, as they are used as a benchmark to determine financing and distribution decisions, deepening preexisting imbalances. Awards campaigns can raise the visibility of films for a mainstream audience, introducing new cultural perspectives, and ultimately shaping the world in which we live.
And yet, the past 95 years, only three women have won an Oscar for Best Director, and only seven have been nominated. In fact, since the inception of the Oscars, 84% of nominees have been men, and only 2% have been women of color. During the 2025 Oscars season, only 27% of the total nominees were women. Awards provide crucial visibility for minority voices.
This year, we invite you to watch at least three Academy Award-qualifying films.
You also might enjoy the For Your Consideration or Consider This webinars we hosted with previous award winners sharing the nuts and bolts of what goes into a successful campaign.
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All God’s Children
Directed by Ondi Timoner
Concerned about escalating tensions between Jewish and Black Brooklynites, the spiritual leaders of Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope and Antioch Baptist Church in Bed-Stuy embark on a radical experiment. Tackling their complex histories head on, these two New York City devotional institutions find communal traction, fighting side by side for justice and compassion.
All That’s Left of You
Directed by Cherien Dabis
After a Palestinian teen gets swept into a protest in the Occupied West Bank, his mother recounts the multigenerational family story of hope, courage and relentless struggle that led to this fateful moment.
Apocalypse in the Tropics
Directed by Petra Costa
Petra Costa now explores how Christian fundamentalism has seized political discourse in one of the world’s most populous nations. With stunning access to Lula, Bolsonaro and others, Costa distills the tumultuous recent chaos of Brazil’s politics into a clear-eyed and deeply troublesome vision of both brazen and unseen forces at work on a vulnerable population.
Art For Everybody
Directed by Miranda Yousef
Thomas Kinkade’s pastoral landscapes made him the most collected painter of all time—and the most despised. Following his shocking death, his family discovers a vault of never-before-seen paintings that upend his entire image, revealing a multifaceted artist whose life and work embodies the divide between the two Americas.
Before The Moon Falls
Directed by Kimberlee Bassford
After a diagnosis of mental illness, acclaimed Samoan writer Sia Figiel embarks on a path toward healing, but it comes at an unspeakable cost.
Before You
Directed by Lauren Melinda
In Before You, a woman revisits the fractured memories of her first pregnancy, navigating the emotional echoes of a loss that still lives inside her.
Beyond the Gaze
Directed by Jill Campbell
In the 1960s, Jule Campbell turned a struggling magazine experiment into the most anticipated annual publication in media: the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue. Mixing art, ambition, and controversy, this documentary reveals how she empowered supermodels and reshaped feminism’s evolving relationship with beauty.
Bob Trevino Likes It
Directed by Tracie Laymon
When lonely 20-something Lily Trevino accidentally befriends a stranger online who shares the same name as her own self-centered father, encouragement and support from this new Bob Trevino could change her life.
Boyfighter
Directed by Julia Weisberg Cortes
As a father prepares to confront the greatest tragedy of his life, memories of his past as a bare-knuckle street fighter resurface, forcing him to reckon with how this shaped the destiny of his young son. Woven between past and present, Boyfighter reveals a legacy of violence and a fragile search for hope.
Brownsville Bred
Directed by Elaine del Valle
In 1980s Brownsville, Brooklyn, Elaine is on the cusp of becoming a teenager. She wrestles with her mother’s resilience, the father she resents, and the chaos outside her window—while discovering her Puerto Rican roots and the courage to forge her own path.
BTS Army: Forever We Are Young
Directed by Patty Ahn and Grace Lee
Across continents, passionate BTS fans known as ARMY unite through dance, music, and shared purpose. This global community transcends age and culture, showing how fandom can spark meaningful change and connection worldwide.
Citizen Nation
Directed by Singeli Agnew
Diverse teens from across America come together to compete in a prestigious civics competition, bringing their unique perspectives and backgrounds to the intellectual arena.
Coexistence, My Ass!
Directed by Amber Fares
Noam Shuster Eliassi grew up the literal poster child for the Israeli-Palestinian peace process before making a hard pivot to stand-up comedy and political satire. But as the region sinks deeper into devastating violence, she must meet the moment by challenging her audiences with hard truths that are no laughing matter.
Cutting Through Rocks
Directed by Mohammadreza Eyni and Sara Khaki
Patriarchy reigns in the rural Iranian village where 37 year-old Sara Shahverdi—divorced, childless, and an avid motorcyclist—became the first woman elected to city council. Wife and husband team Khaki and Eyni followed Shahverdi’s journey over eight years, tracking her inspiring, upstream efforts to subvert economic systems and transform local attitudes that destine girls to matrimony and dependence.
Danielle Scott: Ancestral Call
Directed by Sonia Kennebeck and Tetiana Anderson
Danielle Scott, a legally blind Afro-Cuban, Polish-Jewish, and Filipina mixed-media artist at the cusp of international fame, risks her wellbeing by exposing herself to the intergenerational trauma of the Atlantic Slave Trade.
Democracy Noir
Directed by Connie Field
As Viktor Orbán dismantles Hungary’s democratic institutions, three women—a journalist, a politician, and a nurse—work tirelessly to fight for their country’s soul— a chilling mirror image of the current crisis of democracy in the United States.
Don’t Be Late, Myra
Directed by Afia Serena Nathaniel
A missed school bus leaves ten-year-old Myra stranded in Lahore, where her journey home spirals into a tense fight for survival against the men who stalk her every step.
East of Wall
Directed by Kate Beecroft
After the death of her husband, Tabatha- a young, tattooed, rebellious horse trainer- wrestles with financial insecurity and unresolved grief while providing refuge for a group of wayward teenagers on her broken-down ranch in the Badlands.
Eastern Western
Directed by Biliana Grozdanova and Marina Grozdanova
Deep in the mountains of the American Frontier, Igor, an immigrant and recent widower, struggles to raise his two-year-old son Ivo in the harshness of winter. When Duncan, an American horse rancher and friendly acquaintance, decides to move his horse-breeding business and family to California, Igor and Ivo join the wagon train headed West. After a series of encounters, Duncan is left with a decision.
Enigma
Directed by Zackary Drucker
Two legends contested their identities as women in the court of public opinion: April Ashley, who was immortalized as a trailblazer by embracing her transgender history; and Amanda Lear, who has consciously denied and obfuscated her past for decades. Their divergent paths reveal disparate but intertwined legacies.
Exodus
Directed by Nimco Sheikhaden
Exodus is an intimate portrait of two women as they return home after decades of incarceration, navigating the uncharted terrain of freedom and facing both its promise and its barriers in their efforts to build a dignified life.
Eyes on the Prize III
Directed by Asako Gladsjo, Geeta Gandbhir, Smriti Mundra, and more
A propulsive narrative chronicling the fight for racial justice in America, from Obama’s election to Black Lives Matter, highlighting the heroic individuals who sparked change.
Flight 182
Directed by Rippin Sindher
Before 9/11, Air India Flight 182 was the deadliest terrorist attack in the world. Flight 182 is a family drama about a devoted husband who must choose between visiting his dying mother one last time or heeding warnings from a separatist group seeking revenge against the government.
Grand Theft Hamlet
Directed by Pinny Grylls
Grand Theft Hamlet is a feature documentary about two out of work actors attempting the impossible task of mounting a full production of Hamlet inside the ultra violent world of Grand Theft Auto Shot entirely in game.
Heightened Scrutiny
Directed by Sam Feder
Heightened Scrutiny follows fearless civil rights lawyer, Chase Strangio, battles at the Supreme Court for transgender adolescents’ access to life-saving healthcare, confronting not only the legal system but also a media landscape that distorts public perception and threatens the fight for trans rights.
I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor Story
Directed by Alicia K Harris
I Will Survive: The Gloria Gaynor Story is a Lifetime biopic that follows the life of singer Gloria Gaynor from her early career to her rise to fame. The film highlights her challenges, including health issues, a failed marriage, and the pressures of her career.
Janis Ian: Breaking Silence
Directed by Varda Bar-Kar
Jani Ian: Breaking Silence chronicles the singer’s epic life journey beginning with her Jewish childhood on a chicken farm in New Jersey; her youthful struggle with notoriety following her hit “Society’s Child”; her ascent to fame with the single “At Seventeen”; and her release of the disruptive album Breaking Silence which she leveraged to come out about her loving relationship with her wife Pat Snyder.
Left-Handed Girl
Directed by Shih-Ching Tsou
When a single mother and her two daughters relocate to Taipei to open a night market stall, they encounter new challenges and generations of secrets that threaten to upend their family unity.
Lilly
Directed by Rachel Feldman
Having grown up in poverty, Lilly endures a work environment plagued by pervasive harassment for the sake of the best paycheck in her county. As retirement approaches, Lilly discovers that she has been paid half of what men are earning. Outraged, Lilly fights this injustice to the Supreme Court, the corridors of Congress, and The White House, while powerful forces try to shut her down.
Malka
Directed by Stacey Maltin
Malka, a Holocaust survivor, starts to see visions of her life at the camps during a present-day family seder. As time falls in on itself, Malka must find the hope in the present that she did in the past in order to survive.
Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore
Directed by Shoshannah Stern
In 1987, Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award and was thrust into the spotlight at 21 years old. Reflecting on her life in her primary language of American Sign Language, Marlee explores the complexities of what it means to be a trailblazer.
Men of War
Directed by Jen Gatien and Billy Corben
In May 2020, a ragtag group of American-led insurrectionists attempted to infiltrate Venezuela and overthrow the regime of Nicolas Maduro. “Operation Gideon” was a spectacular failure. Men of War brings audiences inside this misbegotten mission, the latest in a string of covert U.S. interventions in Latin America. Only this time, with a Trump era flavor.
Mistress Dispeller
Directed by Elizabeth Lo
Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband’s affair. With strikingly intimate access, Mistress Dispeller follows this unfolding family drama from all corners of a love triangle.
Murder Has Two Faces
Directed by Lisa Cortés
In the shadow of a highly publicized tragedy, an eerily similar crime is overlooked. Could these cases even be connected? GMA’s Robin Roberts shines new light on the victims and cases largely ignored.
Natchez
Directed by Suzannah Herbert
Natchez captures an unsettling clash between history and memory in a small Mississippi town; a layered mosaic of people contending with the weight of the past in a place where it is always present. Equal parts amusing and disturbing, we journey through an antebellum tourist destination at a crossroads as it grapples with a deeply troubled history that is so thoroughly ingrained in its present, we’re left to wonder if it’s actually past at all.
Neo Dome
Directed by Bonnie Discepolo
In a post economic collapse America, a woman travels alone towards the promise of a Utopian dome on the horizon. When she negotiates a ride with strangers, we learn to trust no one on the road to the Neo Dome.
On A Sunday At Eleven
Directed by Alicia K Harris
Seven-year-old Angel goes to a make-up store teeming with products that promote Eurocentric beauty and then attends ballet class where she stands out as the only Black girl. Feeling excluded, she escapes into a dream world in which the Black women in her life dance around her, an unapologetic celebration of Black hair and the ancestral bond embedded in Black women transcending the physical world.
Outerlands
Directed by Elena Oxman
Cass juggles jobs as a nanny, restaurant server, and party drug dealer to make ends meet and pay for their tiny San Francisco apartment. After a one night stand with Kalli, a co-worker they have a crush on, Cass agrees to watch her 11-year-old daughter, Ari, while she goes out of town. But as days pass without word from Kalli, Cass and Ari form a bond that spirals Cass back to their own difficult childhood and the pain they’ve been running from.
Rental Family
Directed by Hikari
An American actor in Tokyo struggling to find purpose lands an unusual gig: working for a Japanese “rental family” agency, playing stand-in roles for strangers. He rediscovers purpose, belonging, and the beauty of human connection.
River of Grass
Directed by Sasha Wortzel
An ode to the Florida Everglades, told through the prescient writings of Marjory Stoneman Douglas, and those who today call the region home.
Row of Life
Directed by Soraya Simi
Row of Life follows one woman’s irrepressible ambition to defy all odds, leading her to the Marines, multiple Paralympics, and fourteen world records. Angela Madsen inspired millions and chose to embark on the most ambitious journey of all: to become the first paraplegic and oldest woman to row the impossibly vast Pacific Ocean alone.
Sally
Directed by Cristina Constantini
Sally Ride became the first American woman to blast off into space, but beneath her unflappable composure, she carried a secret. Revealing the romance and sacrifices of their 27 years together, Sally’s life partner tells the full story of this complicated and iconic astronaut for the first time.
Seeds
Directed by Brittany Shyne
Using black-and-white imagery, Seeds is a portrait of Black generational farmers in the American South, revealing the significance of owning land and the fragility of a legacy that deserves to endure.
Shari & Lamb Chop
Directed by Lisa D’Apolito
A comprehensive bio-doc on Shari Lewis, who went from a young Jewish girl from the Bronx to the country’s most famous ventriloquist as she blazed a trail for American children’s television long before Mr. Rogers appeared on our screens.
Slumlord Millionaire
Directed by Ellen Martinez and Steph Ching
In New York City’s most quickly gentrifying neighborhoods, a group of fearless residents, activists, and nonprofit attorneys fight corrupt landlords and developers for the basic human right to a home.
Songs From the Hole
Directed by Contessa Gayle
Through clear-eyed narration and lyrical journal entries, incarcerated musician James “JJ’88” Jacobs reveals his innermost struggles as a person who has both committed and experienced violent harm. While serving a double-life prison sentence, he searches for healing and peace as he comes of age in this documentary-musical odyssey composed behind bars.
Speak.
Directed by Jen Tiexiera
Speak. follows five bold young voices on a high-stakes quest to win the Super Bowl of public speaking. Against a backdrop of turmoil, these teens rise with fire, wit, and unshakable humanity—delivering a masterclass in courage, conviction, and the kind of hope that refuses to be silenced.
Tessitura
Directed by Brit Fryer and Lydia Cornett
Blending historical overview with character portraits, Tessitura explores the entangled ways that voice, character, and gender are continuously reformulated in opera by those who contend with these connections daily.
The Cockroach
Directed by Mary Pat Bentel
After a body-altering accident, a woman must find a way forward in her new reality.
The Dating Game
Directed by Violet du Feng
In a country where eligible men outnumber women by 30 million, three perpetual bachelors join an intensive seven-day dating camp led by one of China’s most sought-after dating coaches in a last-ditch effort to find a girl, and love.
The Inquisitor
Directed by Angela Tucker
In 1972, Barbara Jordan became the first Southern Black woman to join Congress. The Inquisitor chronicles Representative Jordan’s meteoric rise offering a blueprint for uniting a divided America through a turbulent political era.
The Librarians
Directed by Kim A Snyder
As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy.
The Perfect Neighbor
Directed by Geeta Gandbhir
Using bodycam footage from dozens of police visits, The Perfect Neighbor bears witness to a tight-knit community navigating one neighbor’s relentless harassment. But her hostility takes a sinister turn when it escalates into a fatal crime.
The Sing Sing Chronicles
Directed by Dawn Porter
The story of a journalist and a man convicted of murder who begin as strangers but become like brothers. Their connection, forged in the cell blocks of Sing Sing Correctional Facility, ignites a search for justice in four homicide cases.
The Voice of Hind Rajab
Directed by Kaouther Ben Hania
Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under IDF fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.
The War Between
Directed by Deborah Correa
This intimate epic is a personal story of a soldier who has lost his memory and must piece together the shards of a broken identity and survive being stranded in the unforgiving desert. Set during the first year of the Civil War, he encounters an enemy soldier and a Chiricahua Apache and they form an unlikely trio who are on their own personal journeys of survival and self-discovery.
There Was, There Was Not
Directed by Emily Mkrtichian
The first line of every Armenian fairy tale, There Was, There Was Not tells the collective myth of a homeland lost forever — and four women’s resistance to that loss.
We Strangers
Directed by Anu Valia
When Ray Martin takes a job cleaning the houses of several rich families across town, she shares one small lie that ends up spinning out of control.
Who in the Hell is Regina Jones?
Directed by Billy Miossi and Soraya Sélène
Before Rolling Stone, there was Soul Newspaper. Behind Soul, there was Regina Jones. Against all odds, Regina blazed her own path, and at 80 has found herself again.
Witness
Directed by Radha Mehta
A revered small-town imam faces a crisis of faith when he must choose between upholding the values of his mosque or protecting the safety and spiritual belonging of a male congregant.
