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The Accelerator Finalist - 2025

The Accelerator is a project hub dedicated to 1st and 2nd feature films at any stage of development. 12 creative teams are selected to take part in a month-long mentoring process, which includes a Hub Day at the NALIP Media Summit on June 26 - 27th. During the Hub Day, participants have one-to-one meetings with market guests, and the projects are assessed by a Jury.

Thank you to the companies and coaches that met with the fellows!

Kindred Spirit Unapologetic 
Preciosa Media  Maquina Vega 
Plan B Jaguar Bite 
MEDIAPRO  Mucho Mas Media 
Lemon Studios  Sony
Lightbox Film Independent 
Broken English  DR Film Commission 
Daniel Dreyfus PR FILM COMMISION

 

IN AN ORDERLY FASHION  

Rafa, a devoted physical therapist, dreams of traveling the world in retirement, but on the first day of freedom, he's rewarded with a terminal illness. His peaceful Miami suburban life spirals into chaos when he asks his beloved wife the unthinkable: to put him out of his misery, so long as he doesn’t know when it's coming.

Team:

Adrian Cardenas, Writer/Director
Maria Altmirano, Producer

BOAT PEOPLE  

Inspired by true events, a Haitian refugee fights to survive the inhumane conditions at Guantánamo Bay.

Team:

Al’Ikens Plancher, Writer/Director
Robert A. Maylor, Producer
Jennifer Greco, Producer
Maria Camila Alonso, Producer

WISHES SINK IN MAN-MADE LAKES

Mayari and Angel are trans teen runaways secretly living in the attic of a cheap seat movie theater. Over the course of an endless summer the two try anything and everything to start hormone replacement therapy.

Team:

Faye Ruiz, Writer/Director
Madeleine Askwith, Producer
Kate Gondwe, Producer

GEN DOOM

As irreversible climate change looms closer, a growing sense of doom paralyzes youth worldwide. But a group of young organizers defies the despair by combating inaction and ending the era of fossil fuels.

Team:

Juliana Toloza Serna, Director/Producer

MY TEEN MOM IS TRIPPIN'

After a failed suicide attempt, a self-loathing jingle writer wakes up in 1992—run over by her own teen mother—and must prevent her own birth to give her mother a better life, only to discover that maybe she wasn't the mistake after all.

Team:

Gabriela Revilla Lugo, Writer/Director
Carolina Groppa, Producer

TEOREMA

A brilliant mathematician travels deep into the Colombian jungle to help her unraveling friend complete a groundbreaking theorem, only to discover she’s been using a powerful AI capable of hacking her mind and rewriting reality itself.

Team:

Esteban Orozco, Writer/Director/Co-Producer
Lorena Villanueva, Co-Producer

THE MIDDLE

After an accidental killing during a reckless night, Joanna Baca, a desert-town teenager, is forced to confront a devastating choice: protect her family by covering up the crime or face the truth and risk everything she’s ever known.

Team:

Sylvia Ray, Writer/Director
Andrea Porras Madero, Producer
Stephen Fitzgibbon, Producer

LA CASA DE LUZ

In modern-day Puerto Rico, Lucy must navigate her grandmother’s sudden lucidity and looming death, leading to a journey that reveals old wounds and brings her, her mother, and their strained relationship to a powerful reckoning.

Team:

Alexis C. Garcia, Co-Writer/Director
Selina Morales, Co-Writer/Producer
Germán Legarreta, Producer

KUEBI AND THE JIPOBU PLANT

KUEBI (17 years old) doesn’t know who she really is, because her mother has hidden her real identity from her by providing every day a cup of Jipobu tea, a very powerful and magical plant. When her mother dies, Kuebi stops drinking the tea and discovers that she is a magical creature who is in great danger because her organs can are used to create powerful black magic potions. Kuebi must choose between keep on hiding behind the Jipobu plant’s terrible witchcraft spell or facing life as she really is.

Team:

Lorena Escaliente, Writer
Carlos Carrera, Director
Carlos Batiz Ohara, Producer
Arturo González Alonso, Director

NORMA

As extremism grips the nation, a Catholic nun becomes an unlikely force of resistance at the heart of America’s immigration crisis.

Team:

Christina Ramirez, Director/Co-Producer
Chris Herde, Co-Producer

RANDY MANDY & THE CURSE OF THE PLAZA SAINT DEATH

SAINT DEATH (Working Title) is a narrative feature that follows the transformative journey of Arely, a transgender immigrant in Queens, New York, who rises to become the spiritual leader of a Santa Muerte community. Told through a lyrical, non-linear triptych, the film interweaves three defining moments in Arely’s life: her youth in rural Mexico, her early years navigating survival in New York, and her emergence in middle age as a matriarch within a resilient queer immigrant collective. Blending magical realism with raw emotional truth, SAINT DEATH evokes a distinctly Latin American sensibility—where the spiritual and the everyday coexist in intimate tension. This is a story of identity, faith, and resistance, portraying how one woman reclaims power through ritual, community, and personal mythmaking.

Team:

Chica Barbosa, Writer/Co-Director
Thiago Zanato, Co-Director