• pennyblade by j.l. worrad
• lady hotspur by tessa gratton
• sofi and the bone song by adrienne tooley (+)
• she who became the sun by shelley parker chan
• the scapegracers by h.a. clarke (+)
• the third daughter by adrienne tooley (+)
• the daughters of izdihar by hadeer elsbai
• the malevolent seven by sebastien de castell
• blackheart knights by laure eve
• the warden by daniel m. ford
• the unbroken by c.l. clark
• dark earth by rebecca stott
• witch king by martha wells
• scorpica by g.r. macallister
• the mirror empire by kameron hurley
• now she is witch by kirsty logan
• silverglass by j.f. rivkin
• the woman who loved the moon and other stories by elizabeth a. lynn

• fire logic by laurie j. marks
• a restless truth by freya marske
• when angels left the old country by sacha lamb (+)
• the traitor baru cormorant by seth dickinson
• an archive of brightness by kelsey socha
• the bladed faith by david dalglish
• the winged histories by sofia samatar
• dragonoak by sam farren
• the forever sea by joshua phillip johnson
• into the broken lands by tanya huff
• the jasmine throne by tasha suri
• daughter of redwinter by ed mcdonald
• the last magician by lisa maxwell (+)
• the fire opal mechanism by fran wilde

• the black coast by mike brooks
• high times in the low parliament by kelly robson
• foundryside by robert jackson bennett
• the enterprise of death by jesse bullington
• mamo by sas milledge (+)
• from dust, a flame by rebecca podos (+)
• uncommon charm by emily bergslien & kat weaver
• wild and wicked things by francesca may
• the unspoken name by a.k. larkwood
• brother red by adrian selby
• the final strife by saara el-arifi
• way of the argosi by sebastien de castell (+)
• the bone shard daughter by andrea stewart
• ghost wood song by erica waters (+)
• into the crooked place by alexandra christo (+)
• ashes of the sun by django wexler
• the midnight girls by alicia jasinska (+)
• the midnight lie by marie rutkoski (+)
• the never tilting world by rin chupeco (+)
• water horse by melissa scott

• a master of djinn by p. djeli clark
• the good luck girls by charlotte nicole davis (+)
• among thieves by m.j. kuhn
• black water sister by zen cho
• the velocity of revolution by marshall ryan maresca
• sweet & bitter magic by adrienne tooley (+)
• the dark tide by alicia jasinska (+)
• the library of the unwritten by a.j. hackwith
• a dark and hollow star by ashley shuttleworth (+)
• the chosen and the beautiful by nghi vo
• the councillor by e.j. beaton
• these feathered flames by alexandra overy (+)
• the factory witches of lowell by c.s. malerich
• fireheart tiger by aliette de bodard

• city of lies by sam hawke
• bestiary by k-ming chang
• the raven and the reindeer by t. kingfisher
• the winter duke by claire eliza bartlett (+)
• master of poisons by andrea hairston
• the empress of salt and fortune by nghi vo
• night flowers shirking from the light of the sun by li xing
• down comes the night by allison saft (+)
• wench by maxine kaplan (+)
• girls made of snow and glass by melissa bashardoust (+)
• girls of paper and fire by natasha ngan (+)
• the impossible contract by k.a. doore
• burning roses by s.l. huang
• the house of shattered wings by aliette de bodard
• not for use in navigation by iona datt sharma
• weak heart by ban gilmartin
• girl, serpent, thorn by melissa bashardoust (+)
• the devil's blade by mark alder

• we set the dark on fire by tehlor kay mejia (+)
• the true queen by zen cho
• moontangled by stephanie burgis
• a portable shelter by kirsty logan
• sing the four quarters by tanya huff
• all the bad apples by moira fowley doyle (+)
• the drowning eyes by emily foster
• the priory of the orange tree by samantha shannon
• miranda in milan by katharine duckett
• the afterward by e.k. johnston (+)
• thorn by anna burke
• penhallow amid passing things by iona datt sharma
• in the vanishers' palace by aliette de bodard
• summer of salt by katrina leno (+)
• the gracekeepers by kirsty logan
• out of the blue by sophie cameron (+)
• black wolves by kate elliott
• the circle by sara b. elfgren & mats strandberg (+)
• unspoken by sarah rees brennan (+)
• thistlefoot by gennarose nethercott
• passing strange by ellen klages

Written and Directed by Kristian Mercado Starring: Mela Murder, Summer Rose Castillo, Caridad de La Luz Cinematography by Alejandro Mejia Edited by REUTER & Kristan Sprague Production Designer: Adeline Pollioni Produced by Andrew Nisinson Executive Producers: Andrew Nisinson, Kristian Mercado, Meilin Gray, Asori Soto, Reuter Producers: Jennifer Zarzuela, Meilin Gray, Debora Perez 1st Assistant Director: Nicole Townsend Casting by: Kate Antognini

Composers: Joshua Madoff David Murillo Nelly Kate

Sound Design Reuter Josh Ascalon

Rerecording Mixer Josh Ascalon

Songs by “En La Mia” Keysokeys Special Thanks to Shoury Santana “Bangah (Pico y Palo)” By IFE “Presludio II Feat. Lex” By IFE

Production Manager: Ana Ugrekhelidze Script Supervisor: Nicole Townsend 1st AD: Jules Cortez 2nd AD: Calvin Perez Hair and Makeup: Tia Rivers Art Director: Sophia Scalzo

Steadicam: Blake Steigerwald 1st AC: Thomas Rospabé 2nd AC: Alex D. Leon

Sound: Tarcisio Longobardi Sound Mix: Cory Choy

Gaffer: Al Rivera Key Grip: Braulio Moz Best Boy Electric: Francisco Amaya Grip: Francinso Florencio

Assistant Editor: Danny Weeks

Production Coordinator: Max Pavlichenko Production Assistants: Jake Ringold, Angelica Cornier, JasmineSkyy Forcer, Aubrey Resto

Cast: Mela: Mela Murder Amy: Summer Rose Castillo Ineabelle: Caridad de La Luz Chico DA-1: Michael Sanchez Baby: Adriel Lantigua Ms Garcia: Sharlene Cruz DJ: Lorenzo Gonzalez Maximo: Maximo Xtravaganza Oliveira Manson: Joseph Charles Viola Hoxton: Bobby Evers Leah: Ashley Nadine Lopez Audition Dancers: Bridget Spencer, Nena Martinez, Caitlyn Byrne, Sangeetha Santhebennur, Angelica Chagoya, Lisa Marie Club Dancers: Sarah Duster, Le Vaun, Jon Rodriguez, BEAU Yaniel Arrendell, School Children: Carlos Mendez, Ashley Fontanez

SPECIAL THANKS: SAG-AFTRA

• LGBT+ books read: 48
• wlw books read: 22
• trans/nb books: 17

1. After Midnight: A History of Independent India by Meghaa Gupta
2. The Old Place by Bobby Finger
3. Ocean’s Echo by Everina Maxwell
4. The Memory Librarian by Janelle Monae
5. Women and Girls With Autism Spectrum Disorder by Sarah Hendrickx
6. A Restless Truth by Freya Marske
7. Unmasking Autism by Devon Price
8. Divergent Mind by Jenara Nerenberg
9. Even Though I Knew the End by C.L. Polk
10. Strictly No Heroics by B. L. Radley
11. Love after the End edited by Joshua Whitehead
12. Juniper Harvey and the Vanishing Kingdom by Nina Varela
13. All Systems Red by Martha Wells
14. The Witch and the Vampire by Francesca Flores
15. Artificial Condition by Martha Wells
16. Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells
17. Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
18. Network Effect by Martha Wells
19. The Order of the Pure Moon Reflected in Water by Zen Cho
20. The Lies of the Ajungo by Moses Ose Utomi
21. Flux by Jinwoo Chong
22. Burning Roses by S. L. Huang
23. In the Lives of Puppets by T. J. Klune
24. Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells
25. No One Will Come Back For Us by Premee Mohamed
26. The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
27. What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
28. The Black Tides of Heaven by Neon Yang
29. The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
30. The Witch King by Martha Wells
31. A Day of Fallen Night by Samantha Shannon
32. We Could Be So Good by Cat Sebastian
33. Last Dance on the Starlight Pier by Sarah Bird
34. Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
35. Galveston’s Maceo Family Empire by T. Nicole Boatman et al
36. Blood Sweat & Chrome: The Wild and True Story of Mad Max Fury Road by Kyle Buchanan
37. A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
38. A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
39. Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
40. Galveston’s Red Light District: A History of the Line by Kimber Fountain
41. Astrid Parker Doesn’t Fail by Ashley Herring Blake
42. In the Vanisher’s Palace by Aliette de Bodard
43. The Red Scholar’s Wake by Aliette de Bodard
44. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
45. Linghun by Ai Jiang
46. Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
47. A Snake Falls to Earth by Darcie Little Badger
48. The Salvation Gambit by Emily Skrutskie
49. Spear by Nicola Griffith
50. The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
51. Last to Leave the Room by Caitlin Starking
52. Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki
53. The Jasmine Throne by Tasha Suri
54. The Oleander Sword by Tasha Suri
55. The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu
56. Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders
57. A Power Unbound by Freya Marske
58. The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
59. Sing for the Coming of the Longest Night by Iona Datt Sharma & Katherine Fabian
60. System Collapse by Martha Wells
61. Silver Nitrate Silvia Moreno-Garcia
62. Whalefall by Daniel Kraus
63. We Set the Dark on Fire by Tehlor Kay Mejia
64. Out There Screaming edited by Jordan Peele

1. Swimming Through Mountains by Calla James
2. Body Grammar by Jules Ohman
3. And Then She Fell by Alicia Elliott
4. The Night Eaters vol. 1: She Eats the Night by Marjorie Liu and Sana Takeda
5. Bad Girls by Camila Sosa Villada
6. Eyes Bottle Dark with a Mouthful of Flowers by Jake Skeets
7. House of Slaughter vol. 1: The Butcher’s Mark by James Tynion IV et al 
8. House of Slaughter vol. 2: Scarlet by James Tynion et al
9. Ballad by Maggie Stiefvater*
10. They Hate Each Other by Amanda Woody
11. The Sea Knows My Name by Laura Brooke Robson
12. The Witch’s Heart by Genevieve Gornichec
13. Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear by Mosab Abu Toha
14. Lucha of the Night Forest by Tehlor Kay Mejia
15. All You Can Ever Know by Nicole Chung
16. The Zones of Paradise by Lynn Powell
17. My Flawless Life by Yvonne Woon
18. The Twenty-Ninth Year by Hala Alyan
19. Endpapers by Jennifer Savran Kelly
20. The Tiny Journalist by Naomi Shihab Nye
21. The Spirit Glass by Roshani Chokshi
22. Idlewild by James Frankie Thomas
23. Above Ground by Clint Smith
24. Eight Nights of Flirting by Hannah Reynolds
25. Prophet by Sin Blaché and Helen MacDonald
26. Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
27. Ten Myths About Israel by Ilan Pappé
28. As If a Song Could Save You by Betsy Sholl
29. Biting the Hand: Growing Up Asian in Black and White America by Julia Lee
30. Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner
31. You Can Be the Last Leaf by Maya Abu Al-Hayyat
32. The Call-Out by Cat Fitzpatrick
33. The Art of Scandal by Regina Black
34. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes by Suzanne Collins

• Blood to Poison by Mary Watson
• The Mossheart's Promise by Rebecca Mix
• Freedom is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
• The Body's Question by Tracy K. Smith
• Rosewater by Liv Little
• Night of the Living Rez by Morgan Talty
• The Pomegranate Gate by Ariel Kaplan
• How We Do It: Black Writers on Craft, Skill, and Practice edited by Jericho Brown
• Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.