Featured Projects

Umi -The Sea-
Genre: Drama

After a tsunami devastate Northern Japan, a spared fisherman learns how to dive to search for the remains of his missing wife but a freak diving accident forces him to reconcile  +

The Slabs
Genre: Drama

Two homeless brothers brave the summer heat in their newfound home of Slab City and confront their painful past.  +

Miss Mermaid
Genre: Drama

May travels from Taipei to New York and discovers a secret life her sister has been keeping from her and their distanced mother.  +

Misty
Genre: Drama

A middle-aged man stands in awe of his beloved Husky as she helps a community heal after a mass shooting.  +

The Assistant
Genre: Drama

A Latin-American theatre assistant (a human-like robot) dreams of becoming an actress, but when her work conditions present her with an ugly reality, she must fight to escape from  +

The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks
Genre: Documentary

The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks is a journey into the mind and work of world-renowned neurologist and author Dr. Oliver Sacks, one of the most fascinating figures and  +

All the World's a Stage: Shakespeare and the Invention of Modern Theater
Genre: Documentary

A journalist, a researcher, and actors fight censorship to tell the story of the charismatic writer Edward de Vere and his literary circle of gay and bisexual playwrights and poets  +

Man of the Year
Genre: Documentary

The country of Rwanda is celebrated as a beacon of hope in Africa, but this reputation obscures a sinister truth. Man of the Year is about the myth of Rwanda, and follows survivors  +

Le Faux Marin
Genre: Drama

A young woman and her father break down on the side of a desert road while en route to her wedding.  +

The Chemical Factory
Genre: Documentary

While reminiscing about childhood in 1980's Oregon, Andrew Leung faces cultural divide through the story of his mother's struggle in 1960's communist China.  +

AMERICAN UNION
Genre: Documentary

In post-industrial Alabama, Amazon workers and coal miners fight for good jobs against corporate greed. AMERICAN UNION is a powerful film that follows their collective  +

Nourishing Japan
Genre: Documentary

A documentary about food education in Japan; about the people who teach us that our actions - even what we eat - matter.  +

INTER-STATE
Genre: Science Fiction

A young physicist must navigate working at a teleportation tech startup, as well as survive the mysterious being from another world she has brought into our own.  +

City of Songs
Genre: Documentary

A musician’s extraordinary journey to explore and understand the unique sounds of the world, one city at a time.  +

Fragileman
Genre: Comedy

When an aspiring actor is dismissed by his favorite actor, he schemes to ruin his former idol’s career, which leads to his own inevitable downfall.  +

The Dream of the Audience: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Genre: Documentary

The film is an intimate remembrance of the groundbreaking artist, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, who through her art practice guides her audience to a state beyond sorrow.   +

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