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 * WINNER, Florida Film Festival - Grand Jury Award, Best Narrative Short, Oscar-QUALIFIED * WINNER, Hamptons International Film Festival, University Short Film Award * WINNER FUSION FILM FESTIVAL - FIRST PLACE * AWARDEE FUTURE OF FILM IS FEMALE * WINNER NYU FIRST RUN FESTIVAL - SECOND PLACE * WINNER 2025 Asian American Showcase - JONATHAN LAXAMANA Emerging Filmmaker Award * NOMINEE, SAnta Barbara international Film Festival- Best Live Action Short * NOMINEE 2025 Durban International Film Festival - upcoming, in competition, Oscar-qualifying * OFFICIAL SELECTION screening at MoMA * OFFICIAL SELECTION WME FUTUREFEST * OFFICIAL SELECTION RiverRun International film Festival * OFFICIAL SELECTION Kansas City FilmFest International * OFFICIAL SELECTION Chicago Critics Film Festival * OFFICIAL SELECTION Brooklyn Film Festival - upcoming * OFFICIAL SELECTION 2025 Nantucket Film Festival - upcoming * OFFICIAL SELECTION 2025 Houston Asian American Pacific Islander Film Festival - upcoming * SHORTLISTED Short Shorts Film Festival * 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