Matt Derengowski

A Chinese immigrant couple arrives in America in 1999 to start a new life. In Philadelphia, they open a Chinese take-out restaurant, where they encounter new challenges to their lives.

A desolate future. Desperate to save her ailing girlfriend, a young woman is forced to confront the unstable leader of a violent faction to secure their freedom.

Blink follows a first-generation Chinese American college student named Steven, who finds himself standing up for what he believes in while going through 2020 with his father. Steven illustrates the physical and mental toll that the events of 2020 had on many people within the Asian American community. These experiences are symbolized through Steven's "blinks" as he recounts the year's significant events, including rising Anti-Asian hate, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the COVID-19 pandemic.

"Validation" covers the experience of a Filipino American high school student applying to film school in the face of their immigrant parent's conflicting desires.