American Projects and Partners Participating in US in Progress announced!

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The fifteenth edition of the US in Progress co-production forum will be held from the 4th till 8th of November 2025 in Warsaw and Wroclaw, as a part of the sixteenth edition of the American Film Festival in Wrocław.

The event aims to facilitate professional networking among independent filmmakers from the United States and European and Polish film professionals. Invite-only in-progress screenings will feature excerpts from nine projects selected from a record number of submissions by the international committee from numerous and entirely diverse submissions of independent American feature-length pictures in final editing stages.

Congratulations to the 2025 US in Progress participants:

Mackenzie directed by Mylissa Fitzsimmons, produced by Mylissa Fitzsimmons and Jaffe Zinn
Mother Wolf directed by Suzi Yoonessi, produced by MediaPro and Aspire Productions
Night Nurse directed by Georgia Bernstein, produced by Missing Link Productions, Ruby Mannequin Films
Perfect directed by Millicent Hailes, produced by Freenjoy, Steak & Rose, Ten to the Six Pictures
Pocket Dream directed by Julia Baylis and Sam Guest, produced by Anarene Films, One Two Twenty, Discordia, Simone Films, and Tanbark Pictures
Ruby Road directed by Talia Lugacy, produced by Acoustic Pictures and Witchcraft Motion Picture Company
She Keeps Me Young directed by Doron Max Hagay, produced by Tiny Giant, International Pigeon Production
Take Me Home directed by Liz Sargent, produced by Cyprian Films NY and All Caps
Unknownia directed by Dash Shaw, produced by Electric Chinoland and MUBI

Filmmakers who attend the event will have a chance to network with top European festival programmers and buyers. The 2025 US in Progress Wrocław partners provide in-kind awards of post-production service packages from leading Polish sound and image studios, together totalling over $130,000:

ATM VIRTUAL, a virtual film production studio, has funded a prize valued at $25,000, consisting of one day of shooting, preceded by one day of prelighting, for the production of a selected producer’s next feature film. New Europe Film Sales will award one project with sales and promotion consulting service and script consultation on the director's next project.

Wroclaw Feature Film Studio is going to offer a grant of $20,000 for one producer to use its studio and equipment for a future production. Additionally, DCF-Lower Silesia Film Centre will invite a project for a location scouting trip in the region.

The event will also feature industry talks, presentation and networking events with Polish Producers Alliance (KIPA) member-producers.

To learn more or contact US in Progress please email: usinprogress@nowehoryzonty.pl.

US in Progress 2025 edition is organized with support from the Polish Film Institute, Adam Mickiewicz Institute, Lower Silesia Wroclaw Film Commission – DCF and Lower Silesian Voivodship and Mazovia Warsaw Film Commission.