Kayla Tong

Cinematographer, Director

When Mimi dies in the middle of a hysteroscopy, she is greeted by a queer archangel, who reveals that her soulmate is the doctor who accidentally killed her. As she realizes she hasn't done much in life, she fights for a second chance.

Queerfully Departed

Who were our mothers before they became our mothers? A tribute to immigrant parents and children of diaspora, this personal hybrid documentary explores the relationship between a Korean-American filmmaker and her mother-asking universal questions of freedom, memory, and responsibility in the process.

Herselves

An aspiring singer/songwriter, Hei, has to decide whether to donate part of his liver to his estranged dad as requested by the dad's gay partner, "Uncle".

Hei, I'm Home

Farrah, new to LA, goes on the mobile styling app Get Glam, to find new clients. When she arrives at an appointment, she finds a house of girls pre-gaming for a party and maybe a new crew of friends.

Baldwin Beauty

Vietnamese, Korean, and Filipino American stories take shape on the streets of San Diego, a refugee and border city built on military narratives.

The Paradise We Are Looking For

The Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard follows Julie - a young and ambitious second generation Vietnamese American funeral director working in City Heights, known as the refugee neighborhood of San Diego, California.

The Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard

God literally forbids she turn off a vibrator gone rogue, so an Orthodox Jew sets out on a quest to find someone who can.

The Shabbos Goy

A young American real estate agent of Middle Eastern descent is framed by his co-workers in the wake of the September 11 attacks and sent to prison at Guantanamo Bay. Thirteen years later, he returns to Los Angeles under a false identity to exact revenge.

Samir

A young woman who works as a karaoke hostess in Koreatown reconnects with her estranged brother in the final days of their father's life.

Ms. Purple

After the disappearance of her younger sister and niece in a small California town, a woman takes matters into her own hands and finds herself thrust into the dark underworld of the American sex trafficking industry.

The Invisible Ones

Neil lives in a society where the allied world corporation has adapted the intake of pills called Repicle, to increase work productivity. Neil is forced to live without these pills one day, after he loses them. He goes through the day trying to hide his 'sickness' until he confronts the culprit, Kiara, his girlfriend.

World as We Know It

A woman goes on a date with a guy 'outside her type'. But she's not racist.

Rachel from New York

Nan struggles to connect in America because of what he left in China.

Wordless

A young Chinese woman, filled with her husband's idyllic tales of life in California, joins a group attempting to cross the Mexican/US border in order to be with him.

Where Dreams Rest

East of La Brea tracks the untold stories of LA through the lives of two very different Muslim women from working class backgrounds: Aisha, a Black Muslim, and her Bangladeshi-American roommate, Farha.

East of La Brea

Newly immigrated Chinese mother and daughter who are going through the threshold of cultural assimilation live under the situation of water shortage in a shabby household in Los Angeles.

Wash

Based on: "The Speech to the Third Army" by George S.

War Cry

The Return

Hong Kong born Alison's life and identity turn awry when her family visits her in L.A.

Home Is Where the Sunsets

When a Filipina helper finds herself pregnant in Hong Kong, she asks the little girl she cares for to keep it a secret.