Matt Laud

After a fellow officer takes his life, a New York City policeman is forced to reckon with his own suicidal ideation.

Neila Johanssen opens her home to a vlogger to record her life with a NATHAN, a new consumer humanoid robot she has gotten to help around the house. But while the cameras roll, Neila struggles to keep the true nature of her relationship with the robot a secret.

What seems to be a burgeoning romance between two Indigenous people takes an unexpected turn in this bold and thrilling blend of the satirical and the sinister by writer-director ishkwaazhe Shane McSauby.

As dawn breaks over Taipei, a whole world comes to life around the Luzhou temple night market, only to be dismantled by sunrise. In COME HUNGRY, Oscar-winner Carol Dysinger creates a city symphony out of the rhythms, sounds, colors, and flavors of this ephemeral community that revolves around Taiwanese food, traditions, and identity.

A Tinder date becomes a guessing game when Bethany decides to meet up with Terrence for the first time. What she doesn't suspect is that he is the local party animal known as "Beer Santa." What she suspects even less is that he may be trying to kill her.

Mike and Donna tell the story of the fateful day their love began.

A young Chinese woman studying abroad in the United States gets a phone call from her parents informing of her grandfather’s death. The young woman tries to spend the rest of her day normally. She makes plans with friends to go out and visit the city after school to brush away the shock. When the cab arrives and she heads to the city with her friends, she decides against it at the last minute. The young woman asks the cab driver to stop as she wants to buy a paper money package. Soon enough, an unlikely friendship arises between the cab driver and the young woman as they reminisce about Beijing, fold, and burn the paper money to commemorate their dead.

An estranged couple are about to share a Christmas dinner. The table is set: candles, wine, a turkey and an extremely sharp knife.

Two men on a camping trip bond when they suddenly discover they share the same dark secret. Official Selection Narrative Short - Austin Film Festival 2016