
Jacob Akira Okada
Directing
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A newlywed couple turns to a scientist for help having a baby and find themselves at the center of a genetic puzzle with far reaching implications and an ethically ambiguous solution.
ANYA

MAN VS PHONE is an award winning feature film about a frustrated, isolated, and unemployed artist/activist/office assistant who becomes increasingly reliant on his cell phone. However, when it uses smart locks and blackmail to trap him inside his small garage apartment, he must figure out how to escape by outsmarting his smart phone... WINNER, Best Writer, Feature Film at the 2024 North Idaho Film Festival (noidff.com). Now streaming on YouTube and Vimeo: youtube.com/@alexanderbergermovies and vimeo.com/alexanderbergermovies
MAN VS PHONE

A girl investigates the disappearance of a school teacher. What she finds changes her life forever.
Athol Park
"CURTIS (2004, Sundance, documentary, 35 min) is a loving portrait of Curtis Wheeler (1950-2003), a dancer and artist fighting to keep his independence and dignity as the end of hi struggle with HIV-AIDS takes him in and out of hospice case." (First Encounter Productions)
Curtis
Painting the Way to the Moon is a 54 minute HD feature documentary about Princeton mathematician Ed Belbruno. In the 1980's, Ed worked at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab by day and made space-inspired paintings by night. In his free time, Ed became obsessed with figuring out a new way of space travel, and over five years he toiled to find a solution. But it wasn't until he turned to his oil paints and canvas that he made his breakthrough.
Painting the Way to the Moon
A screwball comedy about two lesbians and the unlikely character that threatens to come between them.