Jiahao Zhang

A middle-class family's fate becomes intertwined with their only son's enigmatic new friend in post one-child policy China, putting unspoken secrets, unmet expectations, and untended emotions under the microscope.

Qiao, an 18-year-old boy, loses his voice while delivering a eulogy for his late father. He runs away from the funeral and hides from his family. Between past, present and future, the young man recalls his relationship with his brutal and secretive father, who left him a passion for boxing. Ten years later, now an engineer, Qiao develops an AI boxer to help people learn boxing. Training with the AI day by day, Qiao begins to see a ghost.​​

An observational portrait of the California Chinese community through the eyes of a Chinese restaurant in Monterey Park and an LA-based recent graduate trying to navigate the difficulties of the Covid-19 pandemic.

When self-quarantine and social distancing become the norm in post-pandemic time, people interact in a sensory virtual reality called SUNDAY. When the government terminates SUNDAY's server for public health concern, a SUNDAY couple's relationship is at the verge of breaking down.

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Julian is a short film about a girl named Anna who is struggling with moving on from an abusive relationship. She enters in a therapy program where she does therapeutic exercises to confront the past and move forward.

At night, in the quiet desert, the blind girl Rena and the guide dog received unfamiliar calls from the future. The guide dog guided Rena to see the future urban landscape she had imagined.

"Summer Reverie" is about Simon's frustrating experience trying to reestablish a relationship with his first love. When he is forced to confront a harsh reality far short of his idealistic expectations, Simon's reason starts to fall apart.

How We Lost It is an experimental short depicting a young maiko in preparation for the defloration ritual, a now outlawed ‘ceremony.’