Eight American indie films that are in post production will be heading to the beautiful city of Wrocław for this year’s US in Progress — the co-production forum (17th to 19th November) that is part of the 17th TAURON American Film Festival in Wrocław. At the top of the eyebrows raising we find The Lonely Woman by Boy Harsher (Jae Matthews & Augustus Muller) – the American electronic music group and filmmaker tandem are currently on tour and on paper the project is a strong candidate for the upcoming Sundance edition in January. We also have Bone Lake helmer Mercedes Bryce Morgan shoring up Kate Might Die with Jimmi Simpson, Awkwafina, Anthony Ramos, and Zosia Mamet. Linoleum (SXSW 2012) helmer Colin West brings Outside of Cleveland – a romantic fantasy film with Alex Wolff and Brooklynn Prince. 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. Here are the eight 2026 US in Progress participants:
Buyback – Jared Goodman
Run It Hot Presents in association with Jeanne Films, Rockhill Studios and Hardball Entertainment
Kate Might Die – Mercedes Bryce Morgan
Whitewater Films, Invention Studios and Balcony 9
Outside of Cleveland – Colin West
1515 Films, Brain Scratch Productions and Sub_Sequential Pictures
Scary New Year – Rachel Kempf / Nick Toti
Ruby Mannequin Films
Situation #64 – Oliver Edwin
The Space Program and The Dazey Phase
Swim Fishy – Kristen Buckles Cantrell
2801 Productions
The Lonely Woman – Boy Harsher
Base 12 and Spacemaker
Your Dad – Benjamin Chung-Ying Eckersley
Scallion Studio
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.
