In pre-production. What do you do when your dying father flies back to Hawai‘i for a final trip home—and leaves you to cat-sit with your twin sister you barely talk to? You tape off a fake pool in the yard, climb into an inflatable unicorn, and pretend everything’s fine... until it’s not. Dyingmoon is a short dramedy about familial duties, diasporic grief and twinship, told through the absurd lens of two middle-aged Filipino/Native Hawaiian sisters during a forced staycation as they attempt to reconnect—with each other, with their roots, and with the father they’re losing from afar. Dyingmoon is the first installment in a trilogy about loss and regret.

Writer/Director: Yadao Twins
Producers: Yadao Twins, Rachel Styer, Michelle Sampior
Cinematographer: Rachel Styer

Two dorky middle-schoolers debate the existential mysteries of Wu-Tang, women, friendship, and family, as they roam the summertime wilds of 1990s Maine.

Production Company: Adult Son
Writer/Director: Sam Brosnan
Producers: Irene Yadao, Jason Carreiro
Editor: Sam Peisner
Location Sound Mixer: Djim Reynolds
Underwater Camera Operator: Juliette Sutherland
Production Assistants: Andres Llorente & Erika Brekke
Music: Jesse Kivel
Sound Editor & Re-Recording Mixer: Ryan Gottshall
Starring: Zack Sahlin, Lukis Crowell, & Rivkeh Sahlin

An Indian divorcée, struggling to raise her daughter, is forced to confront her violent and painful past at a lunch gathering with old friends.

Production Company: Charles & Skaffari Productions
Writer/Director: Jacintha Charles
Producer: Lisa Yadao

A girl with uncommonly large ears who is bullied in school finds solace in her friendship with a crow who lives in the woods.

Production Company: Charles & Skaffari Productions
Director: Jacintha Charles
Writer: Jacintha Charles, Kendra Goff, Emma Scully
Producer: Lisa Yadao

An alien abductee is caught between two worlds as her personal struggle with PTSD collides with the implanted memories meant to soothe her.

Writer, Director: Sonja Kelly
DoP: Peggy Peralta
Producer: Monica West
Co-Producer: Lisa Yadao

The story of a lost woman and a found dog.

Writer, Producer, Director: Lisa Yadao

In the near-future, Muslim-Americans have been confined to specific neighborhoods, placed under constant surveillance, and banned from practicing their religion. Eliza, a teenage daughter of Muslim immigrants, is sent on a dangerous mission to connect with her faith.

Production Company: FWD Stance
Director: Nelson Murray
Writer: Erick Kwiecien
DoP: Jesse Dana
Co-Producer: Lisa Yadao
Editor: Steven Dupre, Carl Sturgess
Composer: Jordain Wallace