About The Program
AT&T Untold Stories is an impactful collaboration between AT&T and Tribeca Festival, dedicated to connecting creators to greater opportunity. As the largest film production prize in the world, this $1.2M award goes beyond funding, offering comprehensive mentorship and a *guaranteed premiere at the following year's Tribeca Festival.
2026 submissions are now closed and undergoing review . In June, 5 finalist teams will convene in NYC to pitch their scripted feature projects to an esteemed industry committee. While the winner is awarded $1.2M, the four remaining finalists are due to receive $15,000 grants to support their film's development.
*Subject to timely delivery of the film.
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TAKE ME HOME
Anna cares for her aging parents in a fragile balance of meeting one another’s needs. When a Florida heat wave shatters their family and Anna’s routine, her future is uncertain until she creates a world where she can thrive.
Written & Directed by Liz Sargent
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HONEYJOON
A surprisingly sexy, darkly funny, life-affirming movie. Lela and her sensual daughter June take a trip to the romantic Azores after their major loss — with opposite ideas about why they’re there, how to grieve, and June’s tiny bikini. Between honeymooners, Woman Life Freedom, and their hot philosophical-surfer tour guide João, they find each other… coming back to life.
Written & Directed by Lilian T. Mehrel
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COLOR BOOK
Following the passing of his wife, a devoted father learns to raise his son with Down syndrome as a single parent. Through their journey to a professional baseball game, he fights to keep his promise to his child while healing from the loss of his significant other.
Written & Directed by David Fortune
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SMOKING TIGERS
Set in Los Angeles in the early 2000s, Smoking Tigers is a portrait of a lonely 16-year-old Korean American girl named Hayoung who is taken under the wings of three wealthy students she meets at an elite academic boot-camp. As she falls deeper into their world, Hayoung works harder to hide her problematic family and lower-income background from her new friends, only to discover the bittersweet pains of adulthood that will forever shape her life.
Written & Directed by So Young Shelly Yo
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LAND OF GOLD
First-generation Punjabi truck driver Kiran is about to become a father, but his irresponsibility is alienating everyone close to him. When he hears pounding on a shipping container at work and discovers an undocumented girl named Elena inside, everything changes as he sets out on a cross-country road-trip in search of her family. Over the arduous journey, the pair evade the police while feuding and bonding over music, paint swatches, and what it means to be seen as “other” in white America.
Written & Directed by Nardeep Khurmi
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MARVELOUS AND THE BLACK HOLE
Teenage delinquent Sammy Ko teams up with a surly children's party magician on a bizarre adventure to navigate her tumultuous home life and inner demons. A coming-of-age comedy that touches on unlikely friendships, grief, and finding hope in the darkest moments.
Written & Directed by Kate Tsang
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LUCKY GRANDMA
Set in New York City’s Chinatown, the film follows an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese grandma who goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck… and in the middle of a gang war.
Directed and Co-written by Sasie Sealy
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NIGERIAN PRINCE
A troubled American teenager, sent away to his mother's native Nigeria, finds himself entangled in a dangerous web of scams and corruption with a con-artist cousin as his guide.
Written and Directed by Faraday Okoro
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