Experience the beginnings of your next favorite series with these three enticing pilots! You’ll find stories featuring chefs with grand designs, humanoid robots born from grief, and childhood dolls mysteriously coming to life. Plus, you’ll have the bragging rights of saying you saw them here first.

Chef is a perfectionist, Italian cook who works for an unlikely institution and takes pride in the satisfaction of his clients. When a new client rejects his europeanized version of a native dish she ordered, he hurries to make her an authentic Taiwanese meal before it's too late.

Off The Menu

When Carly, a homeschooled fourteen-year-old, is forced to face public high school, she turns to her beloved dolls, Lily and Mermia. Sprung from Carly's own vivid imagination and taking the form of lifesize "friends," they guide Carly through the ups and downs of growing up, fitting in, and figuring herself (and her sexuality) out.

Carly Dolls

Posing as a typical teenager, a humanoid robot must navigate the uncertainty of adolescence in order to conceal a haunting secret.

Humanized

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The National Film Festival for Talented Youth - 16th Anniversary Edition

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