EXPERIENCE LEVEL UP

Each stage of growth brings challenges, puzzles, tasks, and monsters. Each inch forward is fought for with ingenuity, learned skill, and pure heart. It gets difficult, but at the end of the day, there are a few newly acquired lessons and hard-earned tools in our kit that bring us a bit further. Followed by Q&A with directors.
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DAYDREAM

U.S. 2007 | 6 MIN | Color Video | English
Some daydreams serve as distractions, others remind us what we’re losing sight of.

MOON LADY

U.S. 2008 | 15 MIN | Color Video | English
A boy struggles to understand his mentally ill mother and raises himself in the process.

COOKIES FOR SALE

U.S. 2007 | 4 MIN | Color Video |
Determined to sell her last box of cookies, a girl scout comes to blows with her grumpy and unwelcoming neighbor.

CINEMA PARADISE

SOUTH KOREA 2008 | 4 MIN | Color Video | Korean w/ E.S.
Three men and a boy are in line for the bathroom. The boy, unable to wait any longer, runs to find another bathroom, but instead comes across a portable television and becomes engrossed.

SILENCE

U.S. 2007 | 6 MIN | Color Video | English Mandarin w/ E.S.
A young Chinese American fails to overcome the language barrier between himself and his parents and discovers there’s more than words separating them.

CANADA

U.S. 2007 | 16 MIN | Color Video | English
Wherever your family is headed, the angst of being a teenager is sure to follow.

MUZAK.

U.S. 2007 | 9 MIN | Color Video | English
Did you ever just want to follow your bliss? Sundeep knows how you feel. He has far greater things on his mind than college. He wants to be a techno DJ.

PUT HIM IN THE GROUND

U.S. 2008 | 15 MIN | Color Video | English
After Marcus’s mother leaves him to care for his brother, he works as a janitor while trying to make it as a rapper. But when tragedy strikes, Marcus reevaluates his dream and his life.

THE YEARS FLOW LIKE WATER

U.S. 2007 | 15 MIN | Color Video | English Mandarin w/ E.S.
Haunted by the past, a man returns to Chinatown and revists his childhood ghosts.