Professional Materials
Selected Screen and Performance Projects from Give & Take Universe.
FILM
The Mystery of Makeshift Hollow
Feature Film · U.S. · Feminist Thriller
Film Crash First Prize — 2026
In 1972 Illinois, a prison guard accused of murder must uncover the real killer—and the underground abortion network the crime threatens to expose.
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The Good Dog
Feature Film · U.S./Germany · Thriller
When a German shepherd carrying a severed arm attaches himself to a former Army private investigator in Springfield, Illinois, she is drawn into a military-connected smuggling operation running between Germany and the United States—and into the mystery of the woman who trained the dog before her.
31 Days
Feature Film · U.S. · Legal Drama
A 72-year-old woman jailed after telling a judge she cannot be impartial while women remain unequal under the Constitution ignites a national protest.
All This Is True, Sore Though It Grieves Me
Feature Film · U.S. · Drama
A Black young man and the white godmother who loves him drive toward the jail sentence waiting for him, forced to face the truth that love can endure what it cannot fix.
The Man Who Caught Fire
Feature Film · Spain · Speculative Drama
After a near-death event transforms his sex chromosomes, a young Barcelona chemist becomes pregnant—and finds corporations, scientists, and political movements competing for control of his body and child.
Over the Sea’s Wide Back
Feature Film · Spain · Drama / Social Thriller
Trafficked to Spain alongside her sister, a West African woman finds herself enslaved on a wealthy estate. When her sister dies, she must find her own path to freedom—learning the language from a child in her care and turning an annual workers’ festival into an opportunity for escape.
Winter in Frankfurt
Feature Film · Germany · Drama
A woman returns to Frankfurt and confronts the family history, sexual abuse, and inherited silence that shaped her life—forcing a reckoning that reaches beyond her own family.
The Going Forth
Feature Film · India · Contemporary Feminist Drama
In Bodh Gaya, India, a self-governing community of Buddhist women challenges centuries of male religious authority when a respected woman teacher is denied recognition. Rather than seek permission from the patriarchal establishment, the women choose to recognize themselves—and establish an independent center of Buddhist teaching and practice.
TV SERIES
The Tribe Against the Gods
8-Episode Series · South Korea · Feminist Fantasy
Women withdraw from patriarchal society to build a new order in an abandoned Seoul tower—and discover that their withdrawal is literally stripping the old gods of their power.
The Line of Fire
Limited Series | Political Thriller | 6 Episodes | Spain
Assigned to infiltrate Barcelona’s growing network of women who have withdrawn from patriarchal institutions, a decorated police officer begins to recognize herself in the women she is meant to expose—and must choose between the heroic tradition she inherited and a freedom that requires her to abandon it.
THEATER/PERFORMANCE
Hymn to Demeter
Narrative Flamenco · International
A contemporary flamenco retelling of the ancient Hymn to Demeter, in which a mother’s withdrawal becomes the force that compels the gods themselves to change the world.