Shirley Chen

An insecure Chinese-American teenager undergoes experimental surgery to appear white, hoping to secure the prom queen title and peer acceptance.

In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can't teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.

A brilliant but tightly wound, gameshow-obsessed young woman, Anne, and her estranged, train-wreck of a sister, Jenny, must work together to help cover their mother's gambling debts. When Anne's beloved dog is kidnapped, they set out on a wild, cross-country trek to get the cash the only way they know how: by turning Anne into a bona-fide gameshow champion.

When a groundbreaking medical procedure promises to turn slackers into overachievers, an aging father sees it as his last chance to achieve the American Dream-through his unemployed adult daughter.

Against the simmering anxieties of post-Roe America, a Chinese-American teenager and her boyfriend attempt to buy the morning-after pill in a small town where reproductive rights are contested and quietly policed.

A malfunction at a CIA press event causes a Predator drone installed with an ethical AI personality to go rogue as it attempts to understand its purpose in the world.

A couple buys a house from The Slumlord Tapes, infamous for hidden cameras and a psycho landlord. It's not as safe as they tell themselves.

In a high school theater class, Krista uses her scene study as catharsis.

While seeking answers to a past he cannot remember, a schizophrenic must find the strength to control his mental illness as he tries to build relationships with those he pushed away. Winner of multiple festival awards.

A girl needs her brother to fulfill an odd request, a good trip turns bad, a CEO gets invited to a mysterious party, and it all centers around the iconic red crustacean.

A look at the lives and trauma surrounding three people living in a southern town.

Three generations of women say goodbye to their family ballroom dance studio.

After her mother's traditional Chinese medicine shop is vandalized, a young botanist draws on the resilience of her local community and the healing remedies of her ancestors to contend with her deepest anxieties.

In small town Pennsylvania, a directionless Asian-American teenager receives existential advice from an unexpected source.