Sheldon Chau

Filmmaker, Cinematographer

An atheist hunter Kannappa becomes a devotee of Lord Shiva and plucked out his eyes in an act of devotion.

Kannappa

When her immigrant mother's Chinese Traditional Medicine shop gets vandalized, Kai, a young botanist is thrust in between her mother's grief and her partner's mission for catharsis, and must confront the barriers to her own healing.

Roots That Reach Toward the Sky

When two boys are kidnapped in a border town in Nepal, Detective Inspector Pooja is sent from Kathmandu to solve the case. But when she arrives, the brewing political unrest and violent protests throw her off course, and she is forced to seek help from Mamata, a local Madhesi policewoman.

Pooja, Sir

A fight between an Imam and his powerful brother over their children's marriage. At stake: how a small community slowly drifts towards extremism.

Nafi's Father

After 30 years working at the city hall in his small town, a man struggles with grief and depression as the anniversary of his wife's death nears. He finds solace reconnecting with his estranged son.

Demba

After being sent to Nigeria against his will, a stubborn Nigerian-American teenager joins forces with an Internet scammer in order to return to the United States.

Nigerian Prince

A matriarch is forced to confront a malevolent djinn that once haunted her past. A djinn folktale reimagined.

Enmity Djinn

Six beloved African folktales are boldly re-imagined in this multilingual anthology series exploring themes of grief, love and mysticism.

African Folktales, Reimagined

In Manhattan's Chinatown, 66-year-old widowed Yokelan goes to dance class in search of love again.

Yokelan, 66

A woman who suddenly finds herself trapped by the walls around her attempts to break free.

Walls

A Chinese man and a special landscape in Utah.

That is Circling All Round the Sun

San Miguel tells the story of Ana, a devout 9-year-old girl that has to deal with the solitude that comes with having a mother who remains in a paralyzed state of grief. Unable to go back or move forward, Ana's only hope is to alleviate the pain of her mother through divine intervention.

San Miguel

A way to look back the time when I lived in the basement of my school, with a friend and some magics.

The Stars the Sun the Moon

Shut out by the elitist system in the New York art world, one young painter cheats the system to become recognized once and for all.

Vandal

Dawn, a hardworking farm girl, secretly discovers her father's extramarital-affair and struggles with how to confront the issue.

Bull Thistle

A family of three young sisters live out their days after a pandemic has consumed most of the known world. One day a stranger suddenly shows up and their world changes in ways they never could have imagined.

The Tribe

Q has a goal: conquering the heart of the beautiful Dolores. However, his loyal friend Santos doesn't think it will be that easy. They are going to need a strategy to get to Dolores.

A hotshot investment firm CEO decides to venture into an ambitious real estate project to revolutionize a local neighborhood's art scene.

In Max We Trust

A lonely ranch hand in rural Montana unexpectedly picks up two children by the side of the road. Out of her comfort zone, she is forced to confront herself.

Willow Creek Road

Teenagers play truth or dare in the basement of a funeral reception.

Ookie Cookie

Sick of being used for experiments, a group of feisty lab animals set out to find a cure for cancer.

The Cure

An idealistic recent graduate takes a road trip from Ohio to California, with his anxious best friend and his troubled high school sweetheart, to chase his dream of being a filmmaker.

Your Own Road

Living in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, a conservative society, Maitha has a small and seemingly simple dream of swimming in the sea that she frequents. She struggles to avoid agonizing encounters in public due to her veil and society's awareness of her gender. But, fear of judgment is her biggest obstacle of all.

A Small Dream

While walking through an alley, an asthmatic young man, discovers an attractive young lady.

Puff

Grocery List

A struggling Latinx choreographer attempts to navigate the brutal New York City entertainment world while learning to deal with loving his art more than himself, or anything else for that matter.

Unknown

The story of the world's biggest I.T. scam.

Mosagallu

A man straddles a love-hate relationship with Lagos in which he attempts to not only grasp the intensity and comfort the city has to offer, but also embrace it as his home.

City Odes: Eko ile - Lagos, Nigeria

Summer, 1996. In a small community in South West China, an 8-year-old tries to capture the thief responsible for stealing his grandma's bike and enters the moral quandary for the first time.

Summer Knight

After a harsh separation with her boyfriend. Ping, a Taiwanese girl lives in New York City is reconsidering her life. One day, she meets a new neighbor in the same apartment with her, she starts knowing how to change her pace and living well on her own life in this busy city.

Happy Birthday to Me

Two Brooklyn teenage prodigies, C.J. Walker and Sebastian Thomas, build makeshift time machines to save C.J.'s brother, Calvin, from being wrongfully killed by a police officer.

See You Yesterday

A programmer's mysterious disappearance leads to the reunion of old friends and the discovery that the strange stories she left behind may hold clues to an impending technological crisis.

Dark/Web

A woman looks for her place in New York City as she contemplates the meaning of the word, "home.

City Odes: In Between Words - NYC

A pregnant woman and her husband visit her again grandmother in the rural mountains of Taiwan only to witness the older woman's disappearance through the will of a malevolent mountain spirit.

The Visit

In order to help heal her grieving mother, Ana, a devout 9 year old girl, pushes her faith to its limit in hopes of divine intervention.

My Own Apollo

During winter break, a young woman struggles with her sexuality as she's torn between family expectations and her own desires.

Fish Bones

A short film about a girl who finds herself having breakfast with the Spanish-speaking mother of her one-night stand.

The Things We Do They Don't Understand

After the death of his beloved aunt, Daniel, a gay, struggling actor, visits Esther, his devout Christian, Korean mother. Despite their differences, they try to heal together. But old habits die hard.

According to My Mother

Two children write letters to get enough money to go to the cinema. Saturday is their last chance to see the ending of the movie. The local city theater is closing down.

Samedi Cinema

A teenage boy in a Brooklyn apartment interrupts a man on his morning run by throwing eggs out the window.

Flying Eggs

The lines between trust,betrayal and forgiveness become gray and intertwined as we follow Amadou and Yaya, two Senegalese vendors working in New York.

Jungle

In their quest to innovate and being well aware of the need to open their kitchen up to the world, the Roca brothers, co-owners of one of the world's best restaurants, made the decision to close their restaurant for five weeks to take it on the road.

Cooking Up a Tribute

A teenage girl uses her gift of rapping to find healing after sexual abuse.

Q.U.E.E.N.

Merlin is looking for inspiration for her dance. After she meets a magical guy, things turn the other way around.

Any Early Morning

A father and son agree to a 'winner take all' blitz chess game in order to settle a bet.

Blitz

A 10 year old boy battles his mother in order to wear his father's tie to school.

Full-Windsor

November 2011. Greece collapses financially. Prime Minister Papandreu announces a Referendum initiative on his austerity plan. In the meantime, the life of Stavros, a Greek immigrant in New York, is about to change forever.

This Is Reality

A woman returns home to reclaim the throne of her family.

Asenna

A troubled Pakistani teen seeks help from a Hispanic medicine woman at her obscure tenement home. There she must live with another woman who shares her own dark secret.

The Yellow Room

TO LIGHT follows the filmmaker's own father as he recounts the conflicts he faced when his family was forced to flee Vietnam in the 1970s. He reveals for the first time - even to his son - an account of sacrifice, struggle, and in the end, true love.