In a near-future society where a high-stakes virtual exam dictates one’s future, a disadvantaged student must decide whether to risk everything by cheating or accept a system designed for her to fail. This film was made as part of the American Film Institute’s 2025 Directing Workshop for Women Program.
In a near-future society where a high-stakes virtual exam dictates one’s future, a disadvantaged student must decide whether to risk everything by cheating or accept a system designed for her to fail. This film was made as part of the American Film Institute’s 2025 Directing Workshop for Women Program.
A highly-gifted student sees an opportunity to escape her roots by helping wealthy classmates cheat on key exams, but at great risk to her future.
In a climate change-ravaged world, a utopian society optimizes life, including parenthood assessments. A successful couple faces scrutiny by an evaluator over seven days to determine their fitness for childbearing.
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Six high school seniors decide to break into the Princeton Testing Center so they can steal the answers to their upcoming SAT tests and all get perfect scores.
Caleb, a coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds that he will have to participate in a strange and fascinating experiment in which he must interact with the world's first true artificial intelligence, housed in the body of a beautiful robot girl.
In a forgotten pocket of Southern Ohio where American manufacturing and opportunity are drying up, a determined young woman finds a ticket out when she is accepted to college. Alongside her older brother, Ruth Avery joins a dangerous scrap metal crew in order to pay her way. Together, they spend one brutal winter working the scrap yards during the day and stealing valuable metal from the once thriving factories by night. With her goal in sight, Ruth finds that the ultimate cost of an education for a girl like her may be more than she bargained for, and she soon finds herself torn between a promising future and the family she would leave behind.
Whitney Wolfe uses extraordinary grit and ingenuity to break into the male-dominated tech industry.