THE TRUCK
STARRING SHIRLEY CHEN, DANIEL ZOLGHADRI and GARRETT RICHMOND
WRITER-DIRECTOR * ELIZABETH RAO
PRODUCER * ELIZA SOROS
CASTING DIRECTORS * KATE ANTOGNINI, CHARLOTTE ARNOUX
CINEMATOGRAPHER * GIANNA BADIALI
PRODUCTION DESIGN * MARIANNE AUVINET GOULD
STORY CONSULTANT * JONATHAN FRED SCHNEIDER* OFFICIAL SELECTION Telluride Film festival * screening MoMA: The Museum of Modern Art, New York City * WINNER, Florida Film Festival - Grand Jury Award, Best Narrative Short, Oscar-QUALIFIED * WINNER, Hamptons International Film Festival, University Short Film Award * WINNER, FLICKERS' RHODE ISLAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL. Best Screenplay * WINNER, FUSION FILM FESTIVAL - FIRST PLACE * AWARDEE, FUTURE OF FILM IS FEMALE * WINNER, NYU FIRST RUN FESTIVAL - SECOND PLACE * WINNER, Asian American Showcase - JONATHAN LAXAMANA Emerging Filmmaker Award * OFFICIAL SELECTION, WME FUTUREFEST * official selection, SAnta Barbara international Film Festival * official selection, Durban International Film Festival (african Premiere) * OFFICIAL SELECTION, Que du Feu Festival (French premiere) * NOMINEE, Encounters film festival - upcoming, international competition (UK) * NOMINEE, clapham international Film festival - upcoming, in competition (UK) * NOMINEE, EDINBURGH SHORT FILM FESTIVAL - upcoming, in competition (UK) * NOMINEE, BEND FILM FESTIVAL - UPCOMING, in competition * OFFICIAL SELECTION, Edinburgh International Film Festival (UK Premiere) * OFFICIAL SELECTION, INDIEcork FILM FESTIVAL * OFFICIAL SELECTION, La Guarimba International Film Festival (italian premiere) * OFFICIAL SELECTION, Chilliwack international Film festival (canadian premiere) * OFFICIAL SELECTION, Kyiv International Short Film Festival (Ukrainian premiere) * OFFICIAL SELECTION, Aesthetica Short Film Festival (UK) * NOMINEE, HAWAII INTERNATIONAL FILM FESITVAL - UPCOMING, in competition * OFFICIAL SELECTION, San Diego International Film Festival - upcoming * OFFICIAL SELECTION, Chicago Critics Film Festival * OFFICIAL SELECTION, Asian american international film festival * Official selection, Salute your shorts festival * Official selection, HOLLYshorts festival * OFFICIAL SELECTION, Cinema femme film festivaL * OFFICIAL SELECTION, MONTANA FILM FESTIVAL * OFFICIAL SELECTION, RiverRun International film Festival * OFFICIAL SELECTION, Nantucket Film Festival * OFFICIAL SELECTION, TACOMA FILM FESTIVAL * OFFICIAL SELECTION, Brooklyn Film Festival * OFFICIAL SELECTION, CHARLOTTE FILM FESTIVAL * OFFICIAL SELECTION, BUSHWICK FILM FESTIVAL * OFFICIAL SELECTION, Houston Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival * OFFICIAL SELECTION, Kansas City FilmFest International * more FESTIVAL ANNOUNCEMENTS soon :) "Our narrative award went to Elizabeth Rao’s “The Truck,” a film that works in both the micro and the macro, telling a story of two teenagers (Shirley Chen & Daniel Zolghadri) trying to obtain a morning-after pill in an area of the country where that’s becoming increasingly difficult. Beautifully shot and tenderly performed, it’s a special short" -BRIAN TALLERICO, ROGER EBERT.COM "DIRECTORS Q&A: THIS TRIANGLE OF LYNCHIAN AMERICANA" -CHICAGO CRITICS FILM FESTIVAL
madeline’s madeline
STARRING HELENA HOWARD, MIRANDA JULY, and MOLLY PARKER
WRITER-DIRECTOR * Josephine Decker
PRODUCER * Krista Parris
Producer & Co-EDITOR * ELIZABETH RAO
CINEMATOGRAPHER * Ashley Connor
PRODUCTION DESIGN * Charlotte Royer
COSTUME DESIGN * Sarah Maiorino* OFFICIAL SELECTION Sundance Film Festival * OFFICIAL SELECTION Berlinale * OFFICIAL SELECTION BAM Cinemafest, Closing night * NOMINEE Gotham Nominee (Best Feature, Breakthrough actor( * NOMINEE Indie Spirit Awards (Best Female Lead, Best cinematography) * ICS AWARD for BEST EDITING "One of the freshest and most exciting films of the 21st century…A Mind Scrambling Masterpiece" -INDIEWIRE "An ecstatic, anguished, fiercely empathetic masterwork" -THE NEW YORKER "The Best Film of 2018" -THE NEW YORKER "Top 100 Best Movies of the Decade" -INDIEWIRE " ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐" -THE GUARDIAN "...Singular and profound, an unruly and uncompromised work of art" -BARRY JENKINS
materna (2020)
WRITER-DIRECTOR * David Gutnik PRODUCERS * Emily McEvoy, Liz Cardenas CINEMATOGRAPHER * Greta Zozula, Chananun Chotrungroj, Kelly Jeffrey EDITOR * Elizabeth Rao, Brusi Olason PRODUCTION DESIGN * Heather Yancey, April Lasky, Rasul Kochkorbaev COSTUME DESIGN * Akua Murray-Adoboe, elvira kochkorbaev * Double-Award Winner Tribeca Film Festival (Best Actress, Best Cinematography) * WINNER Best Narrative Feature at Naples INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL * WINNER Best Narrative Feature at Florida Film Festival * Award-winner at Raindance Film Festival, Denver INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL, BendFilm Festival * San Francisco INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL * Nashville Film Festival, Champs-Elysees Film Festival, Woodstock Film Festival, Bahamas Film Festival, American Film Festival and MORE "Arresting...each section leaves it's mark" -NYTIMES "Spellbinding performances" -INDIEWIRE "Absorbing" -ROGER EBERT "Nothing short of radical...leaves a lasting and profound impression" -SCREEN QUEENS
MAINELAND
DIRECTOR * Miao Wang PRODUCERS * Violet Du Feng, Damon G. Smith CINEMATOGRAPHER * Sean Price Williams EDITOR * Elizabeth Rao * WINNER SXSW Special Jury Award Winner for Excellence in Observational Cinema * WINNER Best Documentary Feature, Independent Film Festival of Boston * WINNER Audience Award, New Hampshire Film Festival NY Times Critics' Pick "MAINELAND takes up a large and complicated set of topics — the global economy, the shifting relations between East and West, the commodification of American education — and addresses them with understated delicacy" -A.O. SCOTT "Captures the Dreams and Anxieties of Affluent Chinese Teens At an American Boarding School...a Quiet Marvel of a documentary" -THE NEW YORKER