5 Finalists. 1 Live Pitch. $1.2M on the Line.

Join AT&T and Tribeca Festival on June 4th in downtown New York for the ninth annual AT&T Untold Stories Pitch Event. Five filmmaking teams will pitch their feature projects live to an esteemed Greenlight Committee - featuring Phoebe Robinson, Kellyn Smith-Kenny, Lilian T. Mehrel, Isabel Sandoval, and Moisés Zamora - for the world's largest film production prize.

One project will walk away with $1.2M in funding, comprehensive Tribeca Studios mentorship from pre-production through distribution, and a 2027 Tribeca Festival premiere. Each of the runners-up will secure a $15K grant to continue their film’s development.

The 2026 AT&T Untold Stories finalists include:

Little Buddy

Directed by: Nicole Emanuele

Co-Written by: Nicole Emanuele, Beth Hoyt

Produced by: Erica Fishman

After a last attempt in a long fertility journey fails, Maggie and Jason head to the family cottage to reconnect and move on. Instead, Maggie finds herself mothering a cute delivery robot she impulsively stole from the local country store.

Minnesota Goodbye

Directed by: Sid Gopinath

Co-Written by: Sid Gopinath, Aditya Joshi

Produced by: Alifya Ali

Four generations of an Indian immigrant family navigate love, loss, and belonging while building a home for themselves at a lakeside cabin in Northern Minnesota. An intimate family epic told in reverse chronological order.

The Playground

Written & Directed by: Rachel Harrison-Gordon

Produced by: Kate Hopkins

A burned-out mother and former one-hit-wonder enters a surreal international lullaby competition hoping to reclaim the creative life she abandoned, but when her neurodivergent son begins struggling within the systems meant to support him, she learns to honor his experience of the world, and rediscovers her own voice in the process.

Shanghai No. 1 Seafood Palace

Directed by: Jean Lee

Written by: Erica Liu

Produced by: Xin Li

Eleanor is invited to join a group of friends from Singapore, now in their late sixties, as they gather at a Chinese restaurant for a series of annual reunion dinners. When they begin dying one by one, Eleanor grows suspicious, as strange incidents and unsettling revelations make her question what’s truly happening at the table.

There's No Place

Written & Directed by: Jesus Beltran

Produced by: Alan Luna

When Juan - a self-taught tech worker on the verge of landing a full-time offer - gets a call that his older brother Junior is released from prison, he drives 400 miles to haul him home down the Northern California coast. What starts as an obligation becomes something neither of them expected: a darkly comic and bittersweet collision between two men shaped by a world built for neither of them.