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Vote below for this week's Project of the Week. The winning filmmaker will receive a digital distribution consultation from SnagFilms and will become a candidate for Project of the Month. That winner will be awarded with a creative consultation from the fine folks at the Tribeca Film Institute! The four projects up for the prize:  "Aurélia," "A Place to Stand," "Wonder Drug" and "Through a Lens Darkly." Voting will end on Monday August 6, at 11Am Eastern. Which project do you most want to see?...

Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "A Place to Stand" Tweetable Logline: A Place to Stand is the story of Jimmy Santiago Baca's transformation from illiterate convict to world renowned poet in the 1970s. Elevator Pitch: Jimmy Santiago Baca was a petty thief and a drug dealer when he was sentenced to five years in Arizona State Prison, one of the deadliest prisons in America. Baca began his incarceration violent, angry and illiterate, yet taught himself how to read and write, discovering a passion for poetry that ultimately saved his life. A Place to Stand is inspired by Baca’s memoir of the same name, which has been called “elegant and gripping” (The...