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LFI WORKS IN PROGRESS
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In its third year, LFI Works in Progress sponsored by Amazon MGM Studios, supports independent U.S-based filmmakers in the completion of a feature film (fiction or documentary). The program grants finishing funds towards the final stages of post-production. The fund supports films with high production value, a distinctive directorial voice, culturally significant and commercially viable. The fund allocates $50,000 between three projects selected through an open call. A jury of industry professionals divides the funds among the projects, based on their post production needs.
LFI Works In Progress 2026 application is now open!
2025 Works In Progress Recipients
Cancúncito
Written and directed by Carlos Alejandro Marulanda and Isael Gutierrez
Using gambling as an escape from her social isolation, Valeria, a disabled woman with limited use of her hands, recruits a poor AfroMexican industrial worker to help her play the casinos and attempts to seduce him. When her ultra religious mother threatens to destroy their burgeoning love affair, Valeria must move beyond the limits of her disabilities.
2024 Works In Progress Recipients
Brownsville Bred
Written and directed by Elaine Del Valle
Exodus Stories
Produced and directed by Ilse Fernandez
Immigration is not a crime; seeking asylum is a right. The quest for a safer, better life through immigration is a generations-long story shaping the United States into the diverse nation it is today. It is also a complex, polarizing issue, acknowledged by all sides as broken. Exodus Stories aims to provide an unfiltered, authentic account of the Central American-Southwest Border migration experience. It explores the resilience of three Central American immigrants -Deisy, Dennis, and Cindy-, part of the 2018-2019 mass migrant caravans seeking refuge in the United States.
2023 Works In Progress Recipients
Sisters
Produced and performed by Marta Cross, Valeria Maldonado and Virginia Novello
Using gambling as an escape from her social isolation, Valeria, a disabled woman with limited use of her hands, recruits a poor AfroMexican industrial worker to help her play the casinos and attempts to seduce him. When her ultra religious mother threatens to destroy their burgeoning love affair, Valeria must move beyond the limits of her disabilities.
Papá Melissa
Directed by Sophia Stieglitz and produced by Constanza Castro and Doménica Castro
