Josephine Chiang

After giving away her young daughter, an incarcerated immigrant mother begins to make sense of her contrition when she connects with a kindred inmate.

Through forty interconnected vignettes, Human Theories is a comedic kaleidoscope exploring how people try, and often fail, to connect with one another in this weird world. Filmed over a year on location in New York City with a diverse ensemble cast of over 50 actors and non-actors, the film is an experimental love letter to the awkward struggle of modern city living.

Two Asian nonbinary best friends and actors must make some sacrifices when they go up for the same breakout role.

Madison Young, a queer gallerist and sexual revolutionary, returns to Southern Ohio to confront her past, conservative family, and emotional landmines with her partner James.

Newly broken up with and over everything, Rowan throws himself a goodbye party before he blasts himself out of Brooklyn - literally.

A couple deals with chronic illness by opening their marriage. A music writer takes an assignment profiling one of her favorite artists. The mundane poetry of life ensues.

Unable to travel home across closed borders after her mother's sudden and isolated death in China, a middle-aged immigrant named Mei grasps for consolation and connection while living alone in COVID-era New York until one afternoon, she encounters a familiar stranger on the streets nearby.

When lesbian writer Audrey runs into her ex-boyfriend, Julian, she must confront her bisexual panic or risk losing her sense of identity.

20-somethings Margo and Dan take a trip out east to the Hamptons. Their picturesque vacation is soon interrupted by the arrival of a strange unexpected neighbor, The Clammer. A queer crisis ensues as they try to determine if he is a friend or foe.

Hoping to gain a sense of security, a group of queers head upstate to learn how to shoot a gun. But when the first shot goes off, the day of mishaps and mayhem devolves into something much darker.

Two Chinese-American sisters embark on a food tour through New York's vibrant Chinatown to commemorate the memory of their mother.

Everything is falling apart for Hannah, a late-twenties aspiring actor, as she tosses and turns in the turbulent seasons of relationships, death, and the ever present oppressive gloom of trying to make something of herself before turning thirty.

When Mira, a luckless young actress in New York, lands the most important role of her life for an audience of one – pretending to be the long-lost daughter of a terminally ill man – she learns how deeply fiction can unsettle the truth, as she is confronted by memories of her own disappeared father.

When struggling sci-fi novelist, Erin, goes home to visit her family for Passover she knows what to expect: an unsupportive family that wishes she would have taken a more "secure" job. When there, she must decided whether her family deserves to know a secret before they find out without her.

Lulu, a young Chinese American woman, resorts to petty theft as a quiet act of resistance against the wave of newcomers transforming her neighborhood. As she comes of age amidst the shifting fabric of her home, she is confronted with questions of identity and what it truly means to belong.