Patricia Lee

Hannah’s Family — Narrative Short

Hannah’s Family is a series of vignettes about the plurality of the Asian American experience within the bounds of one family. Although they live under one roof, each family member goes out to experience the world in ways completely unique to themselves.

Jessica Zitter & Cheo Tyehimba Taylor

The Chaplain of Oakland — Documentary Feature

Frustrated by watching Black patients needlessly suffer in hospitals due to end-of-life healthcare inequities, a crusading hospital chaplain works to transform an unfair healthcare system, one patient at a time.

Inês Pedrosa e Melo

The dark knot at the center (working title) — Documentary Short

In this unusual road movie set against American landscapes, an anonymous collective of women narrates their personal experiences with traveling long distances to access abortion care. Their voices reshape the road and the vast scenery around it, shedding light on realities of womanhood, sexuality and health care access in contemporary America.

Debra Schaffner

Curse of the Mutant Heirloom — Documentary Feature

What happens when WWII trauma and a genetic mutation collide in the suburbs of New Jersey? That’s what filmmaker Debra Schaffner is trying to figure out as she attempts to connect with her estranged mother who is battling ovarian cancer.

LaTajh Weaver & Hillary Pierce

Queerling Series — Narrative Episodic

After taking a cushy tech job to make ends meet, 25-year-old, Queer, Oakland native struggles to stay morally grounded while benefitting from the same luxuries that are destroying her community.

Chris Cole

Rolling Stone — Narrative Feature

A disaffected music journalist assumes the identity of a rising rap star.

Aurora Brachman

Still Waters — Documentary Short

A daughter asks her mother a question about her mother’s childhood. Her answer begs them to wade through its rippling effects throughout their lives.

Charlotte Gutierrez

John Juan — Narrative Feature
At 15, nerdy bookworm John Lopez is “too Mexican,” for his old private school and “too white” at his new public high school. When John meets Sandra, a militant LatinX activist, he struggles to impress her, and so reinvents himself as “Juan, Super woke Latino.”

Jon Ayon

Mestizx: Aquí y Allá — Documentary Feature

Searching for ways to protect his daughter from the intergenerational trauma of immigration, a first-generation Latinx father travels along the U.S./Mexico border to record Indigenous and immigrant perspectives and chart a world where borders are inconsequential.

Kevin Wong & KarYin Tham

Home Is A Hotel—Documentary Feature

A composite portrait of housing inequality and community resilience, Home Is A Hotel exposes the human cost of housing insecurity through the eyes of 5 diverse San Francisco residents living in SROs.

Adrian Burrell

Cousins — Narrative Feature

Follow the lives of three kids coming of age in the ghettos of Oakland, CA as they are sent on a wild adventure after one of their cousins escapes house arrest (think “Boyz N Da Hood” mixed with “Stand By Me”).

Sanford Jenkins

Joy and Pain — Narrative Feature

An exploration of two families, through a young couple burying a parent and bearing their first child.

Morgan Mathews

Untitled Feature — Narrative Feature

When his estranged father moves back to town with a new family during summer break, a teenage boy is forced to reconcile with his complicated reality.

Lucas Guilkey

Untitled Prison Hunger Strike Film — Documentary Feature

A documentary film about the rise and fall of long-term solitary confinement in California prisons.

Natalya Samee

Doha Girls — Narrative Episodic

Three teen girls navigate the revelations and confusions of high school life amidst the ultra-conservativeness of the oil-rich monarchy of Qatar.

Shao Min Chew Chia

The Plutonians — Narrative Feature

When the official definition of the word “planet” puts Pluto under threat of expulsion, ninth planet expert Alvin Gibbs swoops into a sleepy international astronomy conference to save it. Bullying his peers with increasingly desperate ploys, Alvin fails to win this debate but rediscovers why Pluto matters to him in the first place.

Tsanavi Spoonhunter

Holder of the Sky — Documentary Feature

Holder of the Sky is a story of colonization’s continuum in modern-day America, documenting one tribe’s pursuit to reclaim historic treaty territory in Wisconsin, in the face of longstanding racism and lingering land lust.

Wei Keong Tan

Skin Coat — Narrative Animated Feature

A son forces his male lover to wear a woman’s skin coat in order to enter his home village to see his aging parents. After the death of his father, the short visit turns painfully unbearable for the trio who have to make sacrifices to protect the ones they love.