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      <image:caption>Runtime: 18 min In 1976, two rising film producers celebrate the success of their Cold War spy thriller but panic when their elusive screenwriter disappears. They soon discover the script reveals Top Secret information, putting their careers and lives in danger. Cast: Jefferson Randall, Nick Pearl, JP Weinstein, Alexander Platt, Anna Vlads Director: Tom Brown</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>NY PREMIERE Runtime: 27 min When a thwarted romantic has a near-death experience, she encounters her soulmate in the afterlife.  Cast: Annie Watkins, Alex Nicholson, Vasthy Mompoint, Stephanie Hogan Director: Jay Stern</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>WORLD PREMIERE Runtime: 9 min A zombie outbreak is ruining Jane's first day at her new job, but she does something desperate and crazy that changes everything in funny and unexpected ways.  Cast: Kelley Pereira, Brian Huskey Director: Bo Webb</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 19 min A police officer responds to a noise complaint at a Yale secret society reunion and is allowed inside to investigate. But the alumni are hiding something—namely, the dead body in the back room. As the officer digs deeper, it becomes clear that Brett’s murder isn’t so simple… especially since Brett was a f*ck. Cast: Britne Oldford, Charlie McElveen, Taylor Anthony Miller, Danni Vitorino, Keith Rubin, James M Reilly Director: Keith Rubin, Lauren Sowa</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>NEW YORK PREMIERE Runtime: 13 min An out-of-work dramatic actor (who can even cry on command) is unsure of what to do when offered a bizarre acting opportunity. Cast: Caleb Hearon, Monica Loomba, Taylor Ortega, Lucas Zelnick Director: Sari Eichenbaltt</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 16 min A late cumming-of-age story about a Type-A Latina who lives with her overbearing Catholic family and tries to orgasm for the first time before her fast approaching 40th birthday. Cast: Aimee Garcia, Alfred Molina Lamorne Morris, Olga Merediz Director: Aimee Garcia</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 6 min Marina, a young woman enlists the help of a stranger to get rid of either her baby tooth, or her boat, whichever he prefers. Cast: Dakota Bouher Director: Olivia Accardo</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 13 min A pedantic mother-to-be hires a stranger to role-play as her unborn daughter. Cast: Haley Alea Erickson, Lee Eddy Director: Haley Alea Erickson, Taylor Washington</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 10 min A female driven, genre bending, dark comedy about a day in the life of a "Go Kart Go" delivery driver in Los Angeles. Cast: Eliza Taylor, Levi Meaden, Melissa Berglund Director: Bob Morley</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 10 min  Two mentally ill girls regret joining a cult...but is it too late? Cast: Sydney Heller and Olivia DeLaurentis Director: Blake Jarvis</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 17 min Best friends Sam &amp; Becky accidentally survive a sudden apocalyptic pandemic. With maybe 1 hard skill between the 2 of them, they decide it's up to them to save and repopulate the earth. Step one? Take out each other’s IUDs. Cast: Becky Chicoine, Sam Reece Director: Kristen Buckels Cantrell</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>NORTH AMERICA PREMIERE Runtime: 6 min We follow two preschool teachers as they navigate a day in the life of Los Angeles preschool. Cast: Judy Greer and Marla Sokoloff Director: Marla Sokoloff</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE Runtime: 14 min A vintage shop owner contends with a customer looking for what he’ll wear when he kills himself.  Cast: Rory Culkin, Lorraine Farris, Fred Armisen Director: Nira Burstein</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>WORLD PREMIERE Runtime: 11 min Two down-on-their-luck actresses try to make a pilot. Cast: Connie Shi, Joy Donze Director: Connie Shi</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>NORTH AMERICA PREMIERE Runtime: 13 min ▪︎ Ireland A 40-something-year-old small time weed dealer and mother of two, struggles to admit she has depression.  Cast: Sharon Mannion, Genevieve Hulme Beaman, Séamus O'Rourke, Gerry O'Brien, Danny Kehoe, Geraldine Mcalinden, Deirdre Monaghan, Anne Gill Director: Sharon Mannion</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 5 min ▪︎ Australia Two parents face an impossible choice when their family camping trip turns deadly. Cast: Stephen Curry, Sibylla Budd, Maria Angelico, Tony Briggs, Chris Labbett, Imogen Labbett Director: Nick Russell</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>U.S. PREMIERE Runtime: 14 min ▪︎ Iran An isolated old man lives alone in a remote house after the death of his wife. When his family discovers his passing, they must design a death announcement but no photographs of him can be found. They decide to take a natural-looking photo of his corpse and Photoshop his eyes open. Cast: Majid Jafari, Faranak Kalantar, Ehsan Mansouri, Mohammad Reza Shaban Poor, Meysam Hasanloo, Marjan Tabasi, Zohreh Ali Akbari, Maryam Ali Mohammadi, Nima Dabir Zadeh Director: Amir Ali Moftakhari</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 9 min ▪︎ Iran It tells the story of a young man committed to social and civic values, confronted by his fiancée who sees those ideals as obstacles to their shared life. Sweetness reflects a minimalist and sincere approach to storytelling, exploring relationships, ethics, and personal choices in contemporary society. Cast: Ahmadreza Khaksari, Saeed Mousavi, Fateme Tavakoli Director: Dariush Ahmadi</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 19 min ▪︎ Canada Tanner Slade, an obnoxious step-obsessed bro, is kidnapped on his way to a solo tropical getaway and wakes up wearing a shock collar. A voice tells him he’s allowed only 50 steps per day—or else. As he struggles to survive under the rule, Tanner must adapt, ration every movement, and confront his own flaws, ultimately choosing between meaningless numbers and becoming a better human being. Cast: Evan Williams, Vincent Cueva Director: Dan Bricker, Eytan Millstone</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>NEW YORK PREMIERE Runtime: 8 min Being evil isn't all it's cracked up to be Cast: Jeremy Guskin, Mimi Von Schack, Suzanne Curtis Director: Darren Coyle</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>North America PREMIERE Runtime: 12 min After a sudden kidnapping, Stephen lures a mysterious masked man to his childhood home.  Inside, they confront the old house and the memories of his father’s accidental death.  Cast: Stephen Colfer, Gavin Drea, Fionnuala Murphy, Nessa Matthews, Aidan Thornton, Amy Dunne Director: Stephen Colfer</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>WORLD PREMIERE Runtime: 17 min Justin and Grace are two lonely people looking for love, or are they already madly in love, or are they about to break up? It seems like Justin and Grace live three diﬀerent lives, but together they tell a story of the cyclical nature of dating in the modern world. Cast: Remy Laifer, Eleanor Lougee-Heimer Director: Max Freiman</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 13 min A perfectionist tries to engineer the perfect breakup, but when her carefully laid plans spin wildly out of control, she's forced to confront the beautifully messy reality of love and connection. Cast: Sasheer Zamata, Tommy Dewey, Samantha Turret Director: Tamara Shogaolu</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>U.S PREMIERE Runtime: 12 min Mrs Dawn Willetts waits in the Paradise Meadows shopping centre car park, hoping to be rescued. She doesn’t know their names, but yes, she says that they are definitely coming for her this time.  Cast: Alice Bishop, Lauren Bailey, Nicole Chapman, Finn Jaques, Stephen Oakes Director: Alice Bishop, Craig Reasons</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 8 min A sleep-deprived man caught in a series of surreal dreams and nightmares must confront his fears and childhood memories to wake up on time — or risk missing a life-changing interview. Cast: Karim Phelps, Allen Quindiagan, Roman Baker, Jeremiah Watkins Director: Anthony Chirco</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Shorts Programs - "Night Cap" Shorts - Night Session</image:title>
      <image:caption>Runtime: 10 min When a burglar unexpectedly runs into a homeowner during a theft, a simple robbery morphs into a makeshift therapy session with the burglar helping the homeowner process his impending divorce - all while the homeowner continues to help the burglar rob his apartment. Cast: Richard Kind, Joe Miles, David Ebert, Christiana Lopez Director: Ballard C. Boyd</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 7 min A femme fatale hires a down-on-his-luck detective to prevent her husband's murder. He agrees to take on the case, however, in doing so, he is forced to wrestle for his very soul. Cast: Will Forte, Natalie Palamides Director: Nate Myers</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>NEW YORK PREMIERE Runtime: 6 min When a young girl says goodbye to her "dad" in the cinema lobby, she leaves him with more than just a warm feeling. Cast: Damon Herriman Director: Nash Edgerton</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 15 min A depressed magician is blessed by God with the power to perform impossible tricks. But when his gift ruins his life, it takes a manic clown to remind him of what his conjurations really are - miracles.  Cast: Becca Blackwell, Ben Groh, Ana Stan, Janice Amaya Director: Walker Higgins</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/shorts-programs/punch-the-clock</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-25</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 6 min The office attempts to carry out an important meeting, but are continually interrupted by Kyle's father (Richard Kind). Cast: Kareem Rahma, Ellie Sachs, Julia Shiplett, Martin Urbano, Zach Schiffman, Scott Cohen, Richard Kind  Director: Max Cohn and Ellie Sachs</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 13 min By day, Sarah is a top scientist at a NYC sperm bank; by night, she’s chasing stand-up comedy—avoiding jokes about her day job. When a heckler pushes her to spill during her biggest set, the resulting viral video lands her in HR and costs her everything. Fired and exposed, Sarah learns that sometimes risking it all is the only way to find your voice. Based on a true story. Cast: Sarah Adelman, Judy Gold, Emil Wakim, Savannah DesOrmeaux, Dan Toomey Director: Emily Everhard</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 13 min A comedy about following a dream into a waking nightmare.  Cast: Molly Densmore, Alice Schaerer, Thom Miller, Ricky Pak, Aizzah Fatima, Matthew Winning Director: Kara Herold</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>NORTH AMERICA PREMIERE Runtime: 15 min 63-year-old Filipino-Australian actor Alex Montes is given 48 hours to prepare for the biggest opportunity of his life. But his scattered enthusiasm takes over and the rest of his life falls apart. Cast: Alfred Nicdao, Molly Daniels, Don Bridges Director: Charlotte Nicdao</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Runtime: 13 min Greetings follows Trish, a shy office worker who discovers that whatever she writes in coworkers’ birthday cards comes true. When her own birthday is forgotten, she uses this power to get revenge on her toxic workplace—only to be overtaken by her long-held resentments. Cast: Tabitha Vidaurri, Tiffany Elle, Julia Kelly, Ally Condrath, Caitlin Bitzegaio, Michael Hartney Director: Stephanie Bencin</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/shorts-programs/no-guts-no-glory</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-26</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Shorts Programs - "No Guts, No Glory" Shorts - Gaslighting Dad</image:title>
      <image:caption>WORLD PREMIERE Runtime: 7 min After Travis botches a social interaction with his girlfriend Gabby's father, the pair resort to gaslighting to prevent lifelong ridicule. Cast: Jack Dominick, Alex Getlin, Jesse Swimm  Director: Rocky Paterra</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Shorts Programs - "No Guts, No Glory" Shorts - Being Bublé</image:title>
      <image:caption>NEW YORK PREMIERE Runtime: 20 min A deeply unqualified man is inexplicably hired as a Michael Bublé impersonator for a rich stranger’s party. Despite no resemblance, no singing ability, and just one week to prepare, he gives it everything he’s got. A hilarious, oddly inspiring doc about effort over ability and the joy of letting folks believe. Cast: Dan Perlman, Anthony DeVito, Charlotte Kassimir, Erin Matthews Director: Dan Perlman</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Shorts Programs - "No Guts, No Glory" Shorts - Maggie’s Not Okay</image:title>
      <image:caption>Runtime: 12 min Maggie, a chronic people pleaser, is always getting pushed around. But when she tries to return a lost cat to his owner, Maggie is finally pushed too far and decides to push back… in a most unexpected way. Cast: Mouzam Makkar, Behzad Dabu, Clare Cooney, Paloma Nozicka Director: Vance Smith</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Shorts Programs - "No Guts, No Glory" Shorts - Welcome to America Brian Wong</image:title>
      <image:caption>NEW YORK PREMIERE Runtime: 12 min For thirty years, the Virginia Steins have dominated their annual family softball game against the Maryland Steins—until game thirty-one nearly breaks the streak. After ten-year-old Henry’s costly error hands Virginia the win, his father Mike subjects him to intense training to make him a better ballplayer. When that fails, Mike takes a drastic step: adopting another son.  Cast: Steve Zissis, Joe Lo Truglio, Sam Semenza Director: Kevin Nibley</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Shorts Programs - "No Guts, No Glory" Shorts - Bitch I’m Early</image:title>
      <image:caption>Runtime: 6 min In a cutthroat corporate world where being first is everything, two women from different generations battle for a promotion. Their rivalry spirals from petty jabs into an all-out race to the office, with B!tch I’m Early hilariously skewering corporate culture in just six sharp minutes. Cast: Jesenia, Michelle Batista Director: Jesse Cowell</image:caption>
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    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-02-20</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/sentimental-value</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-25</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/godspell-you-had-to-be-there</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-04</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Feature Films - You Had to Be There: How the Toronto Godspell Ignited the Comedy Revolution, Spread Love &amp;amp; Overalls, and Created a Community That Changed the World (in a Canadian Kind of Way)</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/invasion-of-qatar</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-08</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/leave-them-wanting-less</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-25</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/townie</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-25</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/andre-is-an-idiot</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-25</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/meet-the-barbarians</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-27</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/magic-hour</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-02-20</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>NEW YORK CITY PREMIERE 1 hr 36 mins ▪︎ English Harriet, a once-promising filmmaker, is stuck in the suburbs of New Jersey. Alienated from her cheating husband and spurned by her teenage daughter, she secretly enrolls in film school.  She leads a double life and loves the grueling yet exhilarating world of student filmmaking. But, when she gets fired off her own film and found out by her daughter, Harriet must decide if her life’s ambition is pure folly or a dream worth saving.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/dont-know-how-to-be</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-25</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>WORLD PREMIERE 1 hour 24 minutes ■ Spanish with English subtitles Majo and Cris, a millennial couple in their thirties, spend her birthday at his parents’ home. Majo hopes he’ll finally propose, but when she realizes Cris doesn’t believe in marriage, tensions rise. But at the end, he caves in.   So what was meant to be an intimate afternoon, spirals into an improvised “engagement party”. As baby boomers and millennials clash over values, love, and expectations, facades crack, roles shift, and the party turns into an identity crisis with drinks. In the end, each guest is left to confront a quietly devastating truth: they no longer know how to be.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/love-new-york</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-17</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Missed connections and failed attempts at intimacy. The redemptive healing potential of introspection, patience and empathy. The ensemble film follows a dozen dysfunctional couples through a 24-hr perspective-shifting journey through NYC.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/on-a-string</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-02-08</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/all-in-favor</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-25</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/forelock</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-26</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/fior-di-latte</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-27</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/this-will-never-work</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-25</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/before-we-get-started</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-25</lastmod>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b2b3eb8be18d10b758a6bd/a1a27503-c770-4e85-b2bc-f87f51cc5bfd/before+we+get+started_poster.jpg</image:loc>
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      <image:caption>EAST COAST PREMIERE 1 hour 13 minutes ■ English Known as one of the hardest jobs in comedy, the audience warm-up. They have to be just as funny as your favorite late night host, but they’re also legally obligated to point out the fire exits, and no one has come to see them. In this feature documentary we dive into the trenches of this little known job with long-time warm-up comedian Ryan Riess who meets some familiar faces along the way that cut their teeth in the role before breaking out in front of the camera, and a few who just never made it out.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/bunny</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-25</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/feature-films/tag/Feature+Film</loc>
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    <priority>0.5</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/tvepisodics</loc>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.75</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-24</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/tvepisodics/episodics-trio-program</loc>
    <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
    <priority>0.5</priority>
    <lastmod>2026-01-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>TV/Episodics - TV Episodic Trio Program - Livvie Grace's Bad Bitch Bucket List</image:title>
      <image:caption>World Premiere 22 minutes ▪︎ English A woman stuck in the monotony of adulthood finds her teenage bucket list and, guided by a manifestation of her rebellious younger self, embarks on a wild journey to complete it—risking everything she knows along the way.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>World Premiere 22 minutes ▪︎ English A docuseries hosted by two filmmaker siblings exploring all the ways people cope with grief and death across cultures and communities, hoping it helps them finally process their own grief and confront their immense fear of death. Even if it makes them super uncomfortable.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>New York Premiere 20 minutes ▪︎ English Sam and Paige are best friends who are obsessed with procedurals but bored with their lives, until they decide to stop watching crimes on tv, and start solving them in real life.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>TV/Episodics - Matched - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/tvepisodics/noble-homes</loc>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/tvepisodics/gumshoes</loc>
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      <image:title>TV/Episodics - Gumshoes - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/tvepisodics/how-we-grieve</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>TV/Episodics - How We Grieve - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/tvepisodics/livvie-graces-bad-bitch-bucket-list</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-25</lastmod>
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      <image:title>TV/Episodics - Livvie Grace's Bad Bitch Bucket List - Make it stand out</image:title>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/mocks-and-docs</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-21</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/mocks-and-docs/mixed-documentary-program</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-10</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Docs and Mocks - Mixed Documentary Program - Oh Yeah!</image:title>
      <image:caption>Documentary Short The story of the iconic electronic music group Yello and the phenomenon of their 1980's hit song, exploring the song’s cultural impact and its enduring place in the American psyche.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Docs and Mocks - Mixed Documentary Program - Deadline Days</image:title>
      <image:caption>Shorty Short A last-minute scramble to make a short film forces a filmmaker to confront their creative block—and their bad habits.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/mocks-and-docs/leave-them-wanting-less</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-10</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/mocks-and-docs/andre-is-an-idiot</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-08</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Docs and Mocks - Andre Is An Idiot</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/mocks-and-docs/invasion-of-qatar</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-08</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Docs and Mocks - Invasion of Qatar</image:title>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/mocks-and-docs/townie</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-08</lastmod>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/mocks-and-docs/before-we-get-started</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-01-27</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Docs and Mocks - Before We Get Started - Feature Documentary Film</image:title>
      <image:caption>EAST COAST PREMIERE 1 hour 13 minutes ■ English Known as one of the hardest jobs in comedy, the audience warm-up. They have to be just as funny as your favorite late night host, but they’re also legally obligated to point out the fire exits, and no one has come to see them. In this feature documentary we dive into the trenches of this little known job with long-time warm-up comedian Ryan Riess who meets some familiar faces along the way that cut their teeth in the role before breaking out in front of the camera, and a few who just never made it out.</image:caption>
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    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/mocks-and-docs/oh-yeah</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-21</lastmod>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/almost-midnight</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-15</lastmod>
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  <url>
    <loc>https://www.comedyfilmfestivals.com/almost-midnight/mixed-shorts-2</loc>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-15</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Almost Midnight - Almost Midnight Saturday ■ Mixed Shorts Program - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:loc>https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/67b2b3eb8be18d10b758a6bd/9d79c7b2-9459-4757-8139-1106e3bb0268/we+know+it+was+you+poster.jpg</image:loc>
      <image:title>Almost Midnight - Almost Midnight Saturday ■ Mixed Shorts Program - We Know It Was You</image:title>
      <image:caption>Short Film A satirical murder-mystery comedy about a millennial who gets wrongly accused of killing a man she’s never even met. When she’s bailed out by the victim’s melodramatic widow, she’s forced into a ridiculous investigation full of incompetent cops, over-the-top suspects, and chaotic twists.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Almost Midnight - Almost Midnight Saturday ■ Mixed Shorts Program - Oh Yeah!</image:title>
      <image:caption>Documentary Short Film The story of the iconic electronic music group Yello and the phenomenon of their 1980's hit song, exploring the song’s cultural impact and its enduring place in the American psyche.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Almost Midnight - Almost Midnight Saturday ■ Mixed Shorts Program - Hot Tip</image:title>
      <image:caption>Short Film New York Premiere  A buddy comedy about an uptight consultant whose life implodes when a well-meaning but unhinged delivery driver latches onto him after a bad stock tip. The reluctant friendship forms when they're stuck with each other.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Almost Midnight - Almost Midnight Saturday ■ Mixed Shorts Program - BRETT WAS A F*CK</image:title>
      <image:caption>Short Film A police officer responds to a noise complaint at a Yale secret society reunion and is allowed inside to investigate. But the alumni are hiding something—namely, the dead body in the back room. As the officer digs deeper, it becomes clear that Brett’s murder isn’t so simple… especially since Brett was a f*ck.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Short Film A zombie outbreak is ruining Jane's first day at her new job, but she does something desperate and crazy that changes everything in funny and unexpected ways.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Almost Midnight - Almost Midnight Friday Feature Mockumentary ■ Invasion of Qatar - Make it stand out</image:title>
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      <image:title>Almost Midnight - Almost Midnight Friday Feature Mockumentary ■ Invasion of Qatar - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ass Magic World Premiere  17 minutes ▪︎ English Ass Magic is a short documentary following the creative process of Jack Grady, one of Tik Tok's most popular magicians and America's Got Talent's fastest loser.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Almost Midnight - Almost Midnight Friday Feature Mockumentary ■ Invasion of Qatar - Shorty Short screening before this Feature Film:</image:title>
      <image:caption>Deadline Days 3 minutes 53 seconds ▪︎ English A last-minute scramble to make a short film forces a filmmaker to confront their creative block—and their bad habits.</image:caption>
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    <lastmod>2026-02-18</lastmod>
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      <image:title>Panels and Special Events - Industry Panel ▪︎ Sketch to Screen: From Late Show with David Letterman to Saturday Night Live - Norm Laviolette - Moderator</image:title>
      <image:caption>Norm Laviolette is founder of Improv Asylum, Laugh Boston, Asylum NYC, and Lil Chuck Theatre, and serves as CEO of the New York Comedy Film Festival. A longtime performer and producer, Norm brings firsthand experience in what it takes to create truly funny work while building sustainable businesses that support comedians, writers, and emerging voices. As a moderator, he offers a rare perspective that bridges creative risk, real-world execution, and the future of comedy as both an art form and an industry.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ceara is an Emmy Award-winning television writer who is in her fourth year at SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE. Ceara co-wrote and produced the upcoming Happy Madison film ROOMMATES starring Sarah Sherman, Natasha Lyonne, Nick Kroll, and Sadie Sandler, which will premiere on Netflix in 2026.  Ceara co-hosts the 2025 Webby-nominated comedy podcast PETTY CRIMES, named one of the “Best Podcasts of the Year” by Time Magazine. The podcast is a true crime comedy podcast that only investigates small interpersonal issues submitted by the listeners.   She was a NEW FACE at the Just For Laughs Festival Montreal in 2022, and she is an alum of the Improv Asylum mainstage. Ceara hosts her monthly show IMPROV WITH MY FRIENDS FROM WORK with SNL cast and writers at the Upright Citizens Brigade in New York. They do improv and read sketches that (rightly) never made it past the table read.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The Stangels got their start in television in 1995 writing jokes for Norm MacDonald on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update. In 1997 they got their dream job, being hired as Staff Writers for Late Show with David Letterman. They became Head Writers in 2000 and Executive Producers in 2001. They served as the longest tenured Head Writers in Late Night/Late Show with David Letterman history. Recently they have sold live action and animated TV comedies as well as the daytime variety show "Harry" starring Harry Connick Jr. Eric and Justin, while having no athletic ability have also signed one day contracts with 13 minor league baseball teams and a hockey team. The Stangels have won 4 Primetime Emmy Awards (Very impressive) but have lost 44 Emmys (Equally impressive).</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>If this bio sounds familiar then your brain is working… The Stangels got their start in television in 1995 writing jokes for Norm MacDonald on Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update. In 1997 they got their dream job, being hired as Staff Writers for Late Show with David Letterman. They became Head Writers in 2000 and Executive Producers in 2001. They served as the longest tenured Head Writers in Late Night/Late Show with David Letterman history. Recently they have sold live action and animated TV comedies as well as the daytime variety show "Harry" starring Harry Connick Jr. Eric and Justin, while having no athletic ability have also signed one day contracts with 13 minor league baseball teams and a hockey team. The Stangels have won 4 Primetime Emmy Awards (Very impressive) but have lost 44 Emmys (Equally impressive).</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Panels and Special Events - Industry Panel ▪︎ Festival Circuit Survival Guide: Getting Your Film Seen with NYFA Festival Director Crickett Rumley - Crickett Rumley - Moderator</image:title>
      <image:caption>The founder and senior director of the Film Festival Department at the New York Film Academy (NYFA) in Los Angeles, Crickett Rumley has guided filmmakers to official selections at festivals ranging from Sundance to Bronzelens and to wins and nominations at the Student Academy Awards, the BAFTA Student Film Awards, the DGA Student Film Awards, and the College Television Awards. She is on the board of the Film Festival Alliance, serves as the Panels Director for the Tallgrass Film Festival, and has taught workshops and served on juries for festivals around the U.S.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Panels and Special Events - Industry Panel ▪︎ Festival Circuit Survival Guide: Getting Your Film Seen with NYFA Festival Director Crickett Rumley - Ben Thompson ▪︎ Panelist</image:title>
      <image:caption>VP, Shorts Programming, Tribeca Festival A graduate from Aberystwyth University, Ben left Wales and London to settle in New York. Soon after arriving, he joined the Tribeca Film Festival where he is currently the VP of Shorts Programming. From the start of his career as a filmmaker, Ben has always had a keen interest in short form storytelling. While at Tribeca he discovered a passion for programming and presenting short films to new and engaged audiences. He is fascinated by the influence film has on our world and culture and travels to search out new stories from around the globe. He has watched over 13,000 short films for Tribeca alone.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Panels and Special Events - Industry Panel ▪︎ Festival Circuit Survival Guide: Getting Your Film Seen with NYFA Festival Director Crickett Rumley - Mystelle Brabbée ▪︎ Panelist</image:title>
      <image:caption>Executive Director, Nantucket Film Festival Mystelle Brabbée is the Executive Director of the Nantucket Film Festival, where she has spent more than two decades shaping one of the country’s most respected celebrations of screenwriting and storytelling. Before stepping into the Executive Director role in 2012, she curated the festival for sixteen years—ten as Artistic Director—overseeing film lineups of up to 75 features, documentaries, and shorts annually. She has also helmed many of NFF’s signature live programs, including the Screenwriters Tribute, the All-Star Comedy Roundtable, Staged Readings, Late Night Storytelling, and the Teen View Filmmaking Program. Beyond Nantucket, Brabbée has served as Senior Programmer for DOC NYC and as Director of Acquisitions for the London-based film rights company article27. She directed and produced Highway Courtesans, a documentary filmed in India that screened at more than thirty festivals worldwide. Brabbée has taught at NYU Tisch School of the Arts and lives in the Hudson Valley.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Programmer &amp; Director of Publications, Hamptons International Film Festival Kristin McCracken is an experienced film festival professional known for her acumen in the digital and social space. Formerly VP of Digital Media at Tribeca (where she won two Webby Awards), she is currently a Programmer and the Director of Publications for the Hamptons International Film Festival, and the Program Manager for Science on Screen®, a grant program of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation administered by the Coolidge Corner Theatre.  Kristin works seasonally with other film festivals, including the Provincetown International Film Festival and the Key West Film Festival. Past clients include Montclair Film, German Films, the Maui Film Festival, the Naples International Film Festival, and DOC NYC. She served on the Executive Board of the Film Festival Alliance from 2013-2017.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Filmmaker and Programmer, Tallgrass Film Festival Alex Megaro is a filmmaker who produced/edited WTO/99, winner of the IDA Award for Best Editing, and Driftwood, winner of the Slamdance Grand Jury Prize for Narrative Feature. He directed the multi-award winning documentary short Krush the Wrestler, produced/edited two seasons of the VICE documentary series Source Material, and produced the Sheffield Doc Fest and AFI Docs official selection 8:08 How We Respond. Alex also works as a film programmer and curator.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Panels and Special Events - Industry Panel ▪︎ Comedy Documentary Filmmaker’s Sneak Peek: Mitch Hedberg Project - Moderator ▪︎ Paul Mecurio</image:title>
      <image:caption>Paul is an Emmy &amp; Peabody Award winning comedian for his work on "The Daily Show w/Jon Stewart," “The Late Show w/Stephen Colbert,” making recurring appearances on “The Late Show,” other national shows and his own comedy specials. He is also an accomplished actor, hosts the critically acclaimed podcast “Inside Out w/Paul Mecurio,” an award-winning writer and appears regularly as a commentator on news and sports outlets including, CNN, MSNBC, “CBS Sunday Morning,” Fox News, HLN and ESPN.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jeff is an Emmy award-winning filmmaker. A graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Jeff began his career with internships at Late Night with Conan O’Brien, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and Saturday Night Live.  Jeff developed, produced, filmed, and edited the four-part Netflix Original Documentary Series This Is A Robbery (2021) at Barnicle Brothers and directed the feature doc Zack Hample vs. The World (2022).  Jeff won a Primetime Emmy award for his contributions to the CBS Special Billy Joel: The 100th – Live At Madison Square Garden (2024).  Most recently he’s been part of the creative teams on the Emmy award-winning Netflix sports series The Comeback: 2004 Boston Red Sox (2024), the Marc Maron documentary Are We Good? (2025) which premiered at SXSW, and the HBO Original two-part documentary Billy Joel: And So It Goes (2025), which opened the 2025 Tribeca Film Festival.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Michael is a filmmaker, show runner, and Emmy award-nominated writer.  He directed the comedy documentaries The Comedians Of Comedy (2005) for Netflix and Super High Me (2007) and episodes of Sex&amp;Drugs&amp;Rock&amp;Roll for FX, Brooklyn Nine-Nine for FOX, Broad City for Comedy Central, Children’s Hospital for Adult Swim.  He was on the writing staff of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, wrote the feature film Melvin Goes To Dinner (2003) (which was directed by Bob Odenkirk) and served as EP, head writer, and director of Comedy Central’s South Side.  He has also produced and directed comedy specials for Zach Galifianakis and Joe Rogan as well as music videos for Fiona Apple and Kanye West.  Michael filmed with Mitch Hedberg for an unaired pilot presentation for Comedy Central just three months before Mitch’s death.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Jule is a documentarian and author who chronicles the world of stand-up comedy. She produced and hosted 2020 SiriusXM special Hope On Top: A Mitch Hedberg Oral History, directed the 2021 feature Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11, and is creator, producer, and story editor of 2025’s Are We Good?, a SXSW and Tribeca documentary on Marc Maron. As a professional journalist for more than two decades, Seabaugh covered the art form for publications including The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, The Hollywood Reporter, Variety, The A.V. Club, and numerous alt-weeklies. Her expertise on modern roasting culminated in the 2018 book Ringside at Roast Battle, while 2022’s 50 Years of the Comedy Store vinyl boxed set features her liner notes. The comedian memoir The Hardest Part of Schizophrenia Is Spelling Schizophrenia, with Byron Bowers, releases from Grand Central Publishing in summer 2026.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rob is a veteran content executive with 25 years of experience shaping premium film and tv. He co-founded Indus Valley Media, a new indie studio that finances, develops, and produces scripted &amp; nonfiction projects for global audiences. Previously, Rob was VP, Head of Nonfiction, Business &amp; Legal Affairs at Netflix, where he was one of a few execs dedicated to launching the Netflix Original Documentary &amp; Stand Up Comedy initiatives. During his nearly 10 years at Netflix, Rob handled dozens of Oscar, Emmy, and Grammy-winning productions, and Rob executive produced over a dozen Netflix Original Comedy Specials with comics ranging from Chris Tucker, to Ali Wong to John Mulaney. Prior to Netflix, he handled business affairs at Comedy Central for 9 years supporting many notable projects, including Mitch Hedberg's Do You Believe in Gosh? on Comedy Central Records.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Panels and Special Events - Industry Panel ▪︎ The Sound of Story: Where Film &amp;amp; Music Meet - Jess Domain - Moderator</image:title>
      <image:caption>Jess is a multidisciplinary artist and the Chief Creative Officer/Co-Founder of the New York Comedy Film Festival. A recipient of the ASCAPlus Songwriter Award, her original music has appeared in over 100 films and tv shows. She toured with Aretha Franklin for three years, has shared stages with artists including Mitch Ryder and Don Was, and has collaborated with DJs, film and television composers, ad agencies, and Grammy-winning producers. Jess also wrote and produced the Off-Broadway play The Culture of Now and works at the intersection of music and storytelling across film, tv, and live performance.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Doug is a music supervisor and consultant for film, TV and brands. Doug has music supervised over 100 feature films, as well as dozens of TV series for Apple TV+, Amazon Prime, Bravo, Showtime, VH1, MTV, Lifetime, A&amp;E, WE tv, Viceland, TLC, History and Discovery. He has also worked on advertisements and promotions for brands such as AMC TV, Olay, L'Oreal, Nautica, Grey Goose, Estee Lauder, Monday.com, Kohl's, Chase, and Citibank. Doug co-created and co-produced the popular music compilation series “Christmas Remixed”, featuring modern remixes of vintage holiday recordings by Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Nat King Cole and others. In addition, Doug has been a guest speaker at numerous conferences and institutions such as NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Columbia University Journalism School, and Brooklyn College Feirstein Graduate School of Cinema.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>In 2017, Susan was the historic winner of the first ever Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Supervision for the HBO series Big Little Lies, season finale episode, “You Get What You Need” and Emmy nominations for True Detective: Night Country and Pecados de mi Padre. She’s received multiple Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for work on Out of My Mind, Wild Life, King Richard, Promising Young Woman, The Farwell, I, Tonya, Big Little Lies, American Hustle, Wild, and Silver Linings Playbook. She also has three Grammy nominations under her belt for Best Compilation Soundtrack for Cruella, American Hustle and Little Miss Sunshine. With a career spanning over twenty years, Susan has built a distinguished resume, including many other notable credits such as Split, Joy, Thank You For Your Service, Inside Job, Foxcatcher, The Visit, The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst, Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Before Night Falls, GasLand, Catfish, Kansas City, Basquiat, 54, Happiness, Unbreakable, The Village, Short Cuts, Capote, Lady in the Water and many more. She started her career in music at Island Records as the assistant to founder Chris Blackwell and eventually transitioned into artist management. Later she met director Robert Altman, which started her down the path of Music Supervision.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Panels and Special Events - Industry Panel ▪︎ The Sound of Story: Where Film &amp;amp; Music Meet - Eric Elizalde-Knapp - Panelist</image:title>
      <image:caption>Eric Elizalde-Knapp works in Music Publishing Partnerships and Business Development for YouTube Music. He focuses on engaging the publishing and songwriting communities, cultivating partnerships with music publishers and rights holders, and enhancing the YouTube product for music partners through new technologies and product offerings. Eric also works on direct songwriter and producer initiatives at YouTube, leading dozens of workshops with hundreds of writers globally to empower attendees to maximize their platform engagement. Eric joined YouTube following Google/YouTube's acquisition of the music-tech startup RightsFlow in 2011. In his free time, he co-founded the nonprofit animal rescue organization Animal Lighthouse Rescue and serves on its board of directors.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Ron Goldberg, Vice President of Manhattan Production Music has been actively involved in all aspects of producing, marketing and licensing production music, indie artist music and cover songs for over 30 years.  Ron has deep knowledge and years of experience regarding hiring artists and composers as well all the legal ramifications, sales and marketing that are involved with  production &amp; indie music rights and clearances. Some recent placements in film and TV have been songs he's licensed for the upcoming season of hit Prime series Reacher, Dancing With the Stars, the hit CBS show Tracker, the indie film Soul on Fire starring William H Macy,  the recent Hulu doc on Barbara Walters and much more.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Dave O'Donnell is a Grammy-winning Producer, Mixer, and Engineer whose work spans decades and genres, with credits including James Taylor, Keith Richards, John Mayer, Eric Clapton, Sheryl Crow, Keb’ Mo’, Lyle Lovett, Milton Nascimento, The Rolling Stones, and Ray Charles. He began his career at the legendary Power Station (now Power Station at BerkleeNYC), developing a deep musical foundation across a wide range of styles. That versatility—and his consistent dedication to the craft—has led to long-standing creative relationships with many of the artists he works with. Dave co-produced, recorded, and mixed James Taylor’s American Standard, which won the 2021 GRAMMY Award for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album. He also produced, recorded, and mixed Taylor’s Before This World, which debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Top 200 Chart, earned two GRAMMY nominations, and won the TEC Award for Outstanding Record Production/Album. Additional recent credits include engineering and mixing Keith Richards’ Crosseyed Heart, Sheryl Crow’s Threads, and Bettye LaVette’s 2023 release LaVette!. His career honors also include a Best Jazz Vocal Album GRAMMY Award, three GRAMMY nominations for Best Engineered Album, a GRAMMY Album of the Year nomination, five TEC Awards, and two Emmy nominations.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Stephen Battaglio writes about television and the media business for the Los Angeles Times out of New York. His coverage of the television industry has appeared in TV Guide, the New York Daily News, the New York Times, Fortune, the Hollywood Reporter, Inside.com and Adweek. He is also the author of three books about television, including a biography of pioneer talk show host and producer David Susskind.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Rori is a 7-time Artios Award nominated Casting Director for her work on projects that include FX’s The Americans, Tamara Jenkins’ Private Life, and Steven Spielberg’s The Post. Her film credits with longtime friend and collaborator Jeanne McCarthy include Nicole Holofcener’s You Hurt My Feelings, The Land of Steady Habits and Please Give and the Charlie Kaufman films I’m Thinking of Ending Things and Synecdoche, New York. Additional films alongside Jeanne McCarthy: Eileen, I Care a Lot, Rough Night, The Half of It, Begin Again, and Foxcatcher. Additional television credits: Power: Origins, The Hunting Party, The Last Frontier, Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Run the World, Living With Yourself, Strangers, and Baz Luhrmann’s The Get Down, among others. Select film credits: A Complete Unknown (NY Casting), Happiness for Beginners, Retribution, Turn Me On, The Young Wife, Come Play, Every Day, and the upcoming films You Deserve Each Other, Don’t Say Good Luck, and The Body is Water. Rori was born &amp; raised in New Jersey, attended Cornell University, and resides in New York City. She is a proud member of Casting Society &amp; Theatrical Teamsters Local 817.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Kate is a NY-based Casting Director. Recent film credits include:  Oh, Hi! (with Molly Gordon and Logan Lerman, SUNDANCE 2025), Chili Finger (with Judy Greer, John Goodman, Sean Astin and Bryan Cranston), Into the Sky (w/Sam Richardson, Sofia Black-D’Elia, and David Cross),  Idiotka (SXSW 2025), Fucktoys (SXSW 2025), Omni Loop (SXSW 2024, Artios Nomination), Bob Trevino Likes It  (SXSW 2024 Narrative and Audience Award winner), Cold Wallet  (SXSW 2024), On the End (with Tim Blake Nelson), Barron’s Cove (with Garrett Hedlund), Cora Bora (with Meg Stalter, SXSW 2023), Molli and Max in the Future (SXSW 2023), The Good Half (with Nick Jonas, Tribeca 2023), The Secret Art of Human Flight (Tribeca 2023), Somewhere Quiet  (Tribeca 2023), The Front Room (A24), Drugstore June  (with Esther Povitsky), Materna (Tribeca 2020), Nine Days (Sundance 2020), and Shiva Baby (SXSW 2020, John Cassavetes Winner, Artios Winner)</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>During Amy's 25+ years in the industry, she has cast more than 1500 commercials and has been the casting director, and in many cases a producer, for more than 100 film and television productions. Feature film credits include Nancy Meyers’ Something’s Gotta Give, Godfrey Reggio’s Visitors and Joe Maggio’s Milk &amp; Honey, short films she has cast and/or produced include Student Academy Award winner and Sundance Honoree Zen and the Art of Landscaping and television credits include The Daily Show with Jon Steward and Trevor Noah, HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver and Comedy Central’s Night of Too Many Stars. She’s also a passionate, highly sought after educator who regularly teaches sold out Masterclasses for prestigious organizations including the SAG-AFTRA Foundation and Conservatory and NYWIFT, as well as her own Signature On-Camera Intensive Series, which she offers a couple of times a year by invitation.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>An independent New York casting director who has worked for the past 25 years casting television and film. Some recent film credits include - The Mastermind, Poetic License, Showing Up (2024 winner of the Independent Spirit award for Casting), Certain Women, The Big Sick, Hustlers ( Artios nomination for Comedy Feature Casting), First Cow, The King of Staten Island, The Bubble, Problemista, Please Don’t Destroy and Babes. Some tv credits include - Law and Order: Criminal Intent, Bored To Death, Louie (nominated for two Emmys), Inside Amy Schumer, At Home With Amy Sedaris, Crashing, What We Do In The Shadows (nominated for Emmy and won Artios for Best TV Comedy series), Betty, Flatbush Misdemeanors, Life &amp; Beth, Big Door Prize,Fantasmas and The Chair Company. A proud member of CSA, the Academy of Television Arts &amp; Sciences,the Academy of Motion Picture Arts &amp; Sciences and Local 817.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Julie Schubert is an Emmy Award–winning and Artios-nominated casting director known for her keen eye for talent and her ability to assemble authentic, compelling ensembles across film and television.  Respected for her instinct and collaborative spirit, she is widely regarded as a trusted creative partner by filmmakers, producers, and networks.  Her credits include The Diplomat, Under the Bridge, House of Cards, which earned her an Emmy for Outstanding Casting, as well as Marvel’s Daredevil, Marvel’s Jessica Jones, Mindhunter, as well as features such as the award-winning Night Comes On, Fifty Shades Darker, Fifty Shades Freed and Confessions of a Shopaholic.   Julie continues to contribute to projects that prioritize originality, diversity, and powerful human stories and her work reflects a deep commitment to discovering emerging talent while also pairing established artists with roles that challenge expectations.  Julie was born in Philadelphia, attended New York University and currently resides in New York City.</image:caption>
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