US in Progress Wrocław 2026 Lineup Revealed!

The 16th edition of the US in Progress co-production forum will take place from 17 to 19 November 2026 as part of the 17th TAURON American Film Festival in Wrocław.

The event aims to foster professional networking between independent filmmakers from the United States and film professionals from Poland and Europe. Invite-only work-in-progress screenings will feature excerpts from eight projects selected by an international committee from a large and diverse pool of independent American feature films in the final stages of editing.

Congratulations to the 2026 US in Progress participants:

• Buyback, directed by Jared Goodman, produced by Run It Hot in association with Jeanne Films, Rockhill Studios and Hardball Entertainment

• Kate Might Die, directed by Mercedes Bryce Morgan, produced by Whitewater Films, Invention Studios and Balcony 9

• Outside of Cleveland, directed by Colin West, produced by 1515 Films, Brain Scratch Productions and Sub_Sequential Pictures

• Scary New Year, directed by Rachel Kempf and Nick Toti, produced by Ruby Mannequin Films

• Situation #64, directed by Oliver Edwin, produced by The Space Program and The Dazey Phase

• Swim Fishy, directed by Kristen Buckles Cantrell, produced by 2801 Productions

• The Lonely Woman, directed by Boy Harsher, produced by Base 12 and Spacemaker

• Your Dad, directed by Benjamin Chung-Ying Eckersley, produced by Scallion Studio

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Participants will network with selected Polish producers who are members of the Polish Producers Alliance: Eliza Bahr (Art Rozani), Anna Zdrojewska (RE Studio), Dorota Schleiss (ASF Studio), Oliwia Tracz (Film Pi) and Dawid Gral (Film Pi). They will also attend panels on US and European co-productions. The program also includes a location scouting tour of Lower Silesia, featuring filming locations from Paweł Pawlikowski's Fatherland, and a talk by Mariusz Włodarski of Lava Films on his experience with international co-productions such as Magnus von Horn's Oscar-nominated The Girl with the Needle and Emilie Blichfeldt's The Ugly Stepsister.

The 2026 edition of US in Progress is organized with the support of the Polish Film Institute, the Adam Mickiewicz Institute, the Lower Silesia Wrocław Film Commission – DCF and the Lower Silesian Voivodeship.

For more information or to contact US in Progress, email usinprogress@nowehoryzonty.pl