For Your Consideration 2025

Awards and nominations can be one of the deciding factors that influence a filmmaker’s career, and yet too many creative voices have been left out of the awards conversation for too long. 

Championing underrepresented filmmakers highlights their achievements, broadens representation, and asserts that our talent is essential to film. It also underscores the demand for inclusivity, pressuring institutions to reflect diverse voices and stories. By celebrating our contributions despite structural biases, we help shift industry standards and empower future generations to envision a more equitable cinematic landscape.

Please join us in amplifying underrepresented voices by shining a light on eligible films directed by Film Fatales members including:

Albany Road directed by Christine Swanson
On her way to the most important meeting of her career, severe weather forces a New York executive to share a rental car with her ex-fiancé’s mother, only to discover that the mother is hiding a major secret.

And So It Begins directed by Ramona Diaz
Official Academy Awards submission from The Philippines
Amid Filipino elections, a grassroots movement emerges to protect truth and democracy from growing threats. People unite in joyful acts of resistance, kindling hope while autocracy expands.

Arze directed by Mira Shaib
Official Academy Award submission from Lebanon
Arzé, a single mother, takes her teenage son on a journey across sectarian Beirut in search of their stolen scooter, their only source of livelihood.

Girls Will Be Girls directed by Shuchi Talati
Gotham Award nominee for Breakthrough Director
In a strict boarding school nestled in the Himalayas, 16-year-old Mira discovers desire and romance. But her sexual, rebellious awakening is disrupted by her mother who never got to come-of-age herself.

Good Daughter directed by Rachel Annette Helson
A small-time con artist rips off elderly dementia patients by pretending to be their daughter – until the con catches up with her. 

Meeting You, Meeting Me directed by Lina Suh
Two women from different walks of life both need a friend in this moment, when they cross paths by chance and form an unlikely friendship.

No One Asked You directed by Ruth Leitman
This film follows Lizz Winstead (The Daily Show co-creator) and her reproductive rights organization Abortion Access Front across the battleground states of America.  They will stop at nothing to protect bodily autonomy, fighting misogyny with comedy to kick the government out of your pants.

No Right Way directed by Chelsea Bo
An award-winning heart-felt dramedy following a brazen tween thrust into the guardianship of her older half-sister whose attempts to parent only lead to exposing their paralleled childhood wounds.

Picture Day directed by Kelly Pike
When a tomboy growing up on military bases struggles to fit in at a new school, one small act of rebellion sparks a family crisis and forces her to face harsh realities about gender, power, and what it really means to find your place in the world.

The Cowboy and the Queen directed by Andrea Nevins
When an old-time California rodeo cowboy discovers a way to train horses non-violently, he’s rejected by traditionalists, nearly losing his livelihood, until he meets an unlikely fairy godmother, Queen Elizabeth, and their 30-year friendship galvanizes a pacifist movement not only for horses, but for humans, world-wide.

The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed directed by Joanna Arnow
Filmmaker Joanna Arnow’s hilarious comedy, which world-premiered in Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and is executive produced by Sean Baker, follows a 30-something New York woman (Arnow) as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.

The Other, Gold directed by Sharaé Nikai & David Lassiter
Grief, ”pandemmy” isolation and random Little Tokyo pigeons inspire a TV writer to rekindle her former BFF-ship. 

Union directed by Brett Story & Stephen Maing
Up against one of the most powerful companies on the planet, a group of Amazon workers embark on an unprecedented campaign to unionize their warehouse in Staten Island, New York.

Young. Wild. Free. directed by Thembi Banks
Being a teenager is rough, and Brandon is no different. Between struggling in school, caring for his two younger siblings, and having just been let go from his job, Brandon often uses his art as an escape from the confines of his subdued day-to-day life. Enter Cassidy, a bedazzled bad girl dripping in confidence, freedom, and danger. Lured in by her whimsy, Brandon teams up with Cassidy, seamlessly slipping into the role of Clyde to her Bonnie as they make their way down an increasingly perilous path.