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SANTOS The Book of Alina is a modern supernatural drama about inheritance identity and power. It follows a young woman pulled between family faith and the unseen world that has been waiting for her to wake up. When Alina Montes unexpectedly inherits her family's Botanica she steps into a legacy she never asked for and cannot escape. The Botanica is more than a spiritual shop. It breathes. It hums. It remembers. It is a place where prayers and secrets mix where energy shifts the air and where the line between the living and the dead is always thin. Her mother a polished politician and devoted believer sees the Botanica as a danger to her reputation and career. To her faith is something to control not something to live. Alina's cousin sees the Botanica differently. Beautiful ambitious and ruthless she believes it belongs to her. She is willing to turn family into an enemy to get it. Alina finds herself standing between two women who both want to decide who she is. But the Botanica has its own plans. Her closest friends are the only people she can trust. Mateo can see and hear spirits that move through the city voices that echo from the past into the present. Tesen can sense things before they happen reading energy and danger in the space around her like instinct. Together they uncover that the Botanica is not just Alina's inheritance. It is a gate to something ancient powerful and alive. As Alina starts to unlock her connection to this power she learns the truth about her bloodline. She is a Santera part of a tradition her mother worked her entire life to bury. The realization forces Alina to choose between the world she grew up in and the one that calls to her through the walls of the Botanica. Then Michael enters her life. A journalist with a camera a story and his own secrets. He is drawn to Alina but his curiosity runs deeper than attraction. He is looking for something hidden in her world and his obsession might destroy them both. The first fourteen episodes follow Alina's awakening as she begins to see what others cannot. The more she learns about the Botanica the more she realizes her family has been protecting something far greater than money or legacy. Each episode peels back another layer of who she is revealing a woman caught between love and danger tradition and rebellion faith and freedom. SANTOS The Book of Alina is emotional bold and visually charged. It blends the raw honesty of Euphoria the intensity and danger of Queen of the South and the dark wonder of Pans Labyrinth. It is a story about power survival and the cost of remembering who you are. In this world candles burn like warnings saints and spirits walk side by side and the past never stays buried. The Botanica becomes Alina's battlefield and her sanctuary. It is where she faces the truth about her family her own reflection and the power she carries in her blood. But this is just the beginning. The first fourteen episodes tell the story of her awakening. Beyond them lies a fifty episode saga that explores how far Alina will go to protect what is hers how deep the roots of her power run and what happens when a generation that was told to forget finally decides to remember. SANTOS The Book of Alina is a story of legacy and rebirth. A world where magic hides in plain sight where faith can be dangerous and where one woman's awakening can change everything. *This entry is participating in the ReelShort Reel Vertical Impact contest

Branded a ruthless capitalist in her past life, she was locked in a frozen tower and left to die, saved only by her timid assistant. Reborn one month before the apocalypse, she liquidates fortunes, buries her betrayers in debt, and builds a mountain cold-storage fortress. When the world freezes, she thrives in luxury while enemies beg in the snow, now "laid off" by the end of the world. And her once-quiet assistant? He becomes her deadliest weapon.

Lua is a dreamy girl who dreams of becoming a singer. But her father rejects her because of her appearance, while her sister Esmeralda pretends to be kind, hiding a silent cruelty. Lua only refuge is her friend, the mysterious mermaid Diana, whom only she can see. When a new nanny arrives, seemingly perfect, Lua life turns into a nightmare of humiliation and pain. Amid fantasies, songs, and tears, only one question remains: what is Lua secret?*This entry is participating in the ReelShort Reel Vertical Impact contest

A young documentary crew tries to debunk self-proclaimed mystics at a spiritual retreat, if they can only avoid getting sucked into the madness during drum circles, colon cleanses, cult battles, and a squirrel funeral, they just might uncover the biggest scam of all - reality itself.*This entry is participating in the ReelShort Reel Vertical Impact contest

Thrown out by her stepmother and left to fend for herself, Sharon Stinger never expected salvation to come in the form of Jenton's most influential man, Henry Forbes. She enters a flash marriage with Henry, and what starts as a mere exchange of benefits soon turns into an unexpected battle for survival in high society. Looked down upon by the elite, Sharon proves her worth with intelligence and determination, climbing to the top of the design world. Meanwhile, the powerful Henry finds himself falling helplessly for her.

Alexander Whitmore is a struggling street vendor—until he saves Freya Sinclair, the queenpin of Black Sparrow. One impulsive kiss later, they're flash-married. But when Caleb Carter threatens their newfound happiness, Alexander's "poor" parents drop a bombshell: they're the secret founders of Whitmore Capital, a global empire. Now, with his underworld wife by his side and a billion-dollar dynasty behind him, this accidental heir must rise to claim his destiny and protect the woman he loves.

After an unexpected encounter, she gave birth to a son. Six years later, the man from that one-night stand learns the truth and begins searching for the child. In the process, she accidentally crosses paths with him, leading to a series of humorous and contentious interactions. In the end, the son reunites with his paternal family, and they all begin a life filled with happiness and togetherness.

Five years ago, Damian Cross woke up in a shallow grave. His wife sold him out. His parents were dead. His sister was gone. He was the only one who walked away. Now he's back. One man. Three syndicates. One mission: tear them all down. He starts from the bottom and rises fast. Too fast. Because the higher he climbs, the closer he gets to the truth. The people who destroyed his family? Just pawns. The real monster has been watching him the whole time. This isn't revenge anymore. This is war.

Workplace queen Kate Lane and "mysterious hire" Evan Weston start as weekend lovers with one rule: business only, no feelings. But as they join forces to survive corporate warfare, their no-strings arrangement becomes dangerously real. When Evan's hidden identity as the company heir surfaces—along with a formidable rival for Kate's heart—trust shatters. Yet in the ruins, they discover the one truth neither expected: some battles are worth losing, if it means winning each other.

After a fatal accident, modern-day veterinarian Harper Davis wakes up as Maeve, a disgraced disciple of the Stormcloud Sect, her Core shattered and her Spirit Power gone. In the Matriarchal World where females reign supreme, she is ridiculed, betrayed, and left for dead. But she has one advantage no one expects: the Underdog System. With its help, Maeve binds four powerful and stunning Beast Mates, a wolf, a wyrm, an elk, and a phoenix, and begins her rise from the ashes.

Seven days before the catastrophic flood, Serena Hale is reborn. Using her severance pay, she buys a discarded steel tank, gives up a respectable life, and frantically hoards supplies—turning the tank into Noah's Ark and humiliating her sneering ex-coworker Celine Shaw. When disaster strikes, she coldly watches Celine and the others fall, driving off looters and her vicious former landlord Victor Kane again and again. Surviving brutal cold through sheer ruthlessness, she uncovers the coordinates to Dawnhaven Base, sails there, hides her supplies, blends in as a refugee—and rises to claim her place in the new world.