The
Mosuo
Sisters
Now
In Post-
Production
The Mosuo Sisters offers an intimate portrait of two spirited daughters from China’s last remaining matriarchal ethnic minority who are thrust into the worldwide economic downturn when they lose the only jobs they’ve ever known. Left with few options, Zhouma and Latsuo leave Beijing for home, a remote village in the foothills of the Himalayas. But home is no longer what it was, as growing exposure to the modern world irreparably changes the provocative traditions the Mosuo have built around their belief that marriage is an attack on the family. Determined to keep their mother and siblings out of poverty, one sister sacrifices her dream of an education and stays home to farm, while the other leaves to try her luck in the city. From Lijiang to Chengdu, Zhouma’s interactions with rich Chinese businessmen, lascivious gangsters, and fledgling pop stars lead her on a precarious path that pits her hopes and dreams against bitter realities.
Run
Granny
Run
Doris “Granny D” Haddock is the nation‘s oldest political newcomer. At 90, she laced up her sneakers and walked across America to rally against the influence of big money in elections—making both friends and enemies inside the Washington beltway. Now 94 and still fed up with politics as usual, she jumps at an unexpected chance to run for U.S. Senate. With just four months until Election Day, Doris and her motley crew of political aces and amateurs craft a feisty campaign that personifies her democratic ideals of a government of, by and for the people.
A tale of doggedness versus dollars, grit against greenbacks, Run Granny Run is an unlikely portrait of a remarkable activist and an exploration of our fragile democracy in the corporate age.
Mai’s
America
A spunky, mini-skirted daughter of Ho Chi Minh‘s revolution leaves cosmopolitan Hanoi on a high school exchange program. Anticipating Hollywood, Mai crash lands in rural Mississippi…where her relationships with white Pentecostal and black Baptist host families, self-proclaimed rednecks, transvestites, and South Vietnamese immigrants challenge her long-held ideas about herself, about freedom, about America, and even about Vietnam.