Ann Shin
2021The Defector: Escape from North Korea
Ann Shin
Dragon, Sook-ja
Dragon smuggles North Korean defectors across borders for a living, and his latest undercover trip with Sook-Ja and Yong-hee takes an unexpected turn when they are left stranded in China. This is just the start of an extraordinary 5,000 km journey.
The Defector: Escape from North Korea
My Enemy, My Brother
Ann Shin
The eight-year Iran-Iraq War was one of the most brutal conflicts to devastate the region in the 20th century. Zahed was 13 years old when he enrolled in the Iranian army. Najah was 18 when he was conscripted into the Iraqi army, and he fought against Zahed in the Battle of Khorramshahr. Fast forward 25 years, a chance encounter in Vancouver between these two former enemies turns into a deep and mutually supportive friendship. Expanded from the 2015 short film by the same name.
My Enemy, My Brother
The Superfood Chain
Ann Shin
Every year, the western world is introduced to a new 'superfood' that boasts extraordinary nutritional features, and year after year we buy them. The Superfood Chain is a feature documentary that explores the facts and myths behind superfoods, and reveals the ripple effect of the 'Superfood' industry on farming and fishing families around the world.
The Superfood Chain
Low Budget Ethnic Movie
Daniel Yoon
Kavi Ladnier, Daniel Yoon
An odd and intense middle aged Korean American man flirts with the idea of suicide because he believes he's failed his immigrant parents. He's disturbed by his increasingly vivid hallucinations of what his life could have been. So he pursues spirituality to calm himself, and in the process encounters others who are struggling in their own ways.
East Bay
A.rtificial I.mmortality
Ann Shin
If you could create an immortal version of yourself, would you? Once the stuff of science fiction, A.I. experts now see it as possible. This feature documentary explores the latest thinking and technological advancements in AI.
A.rtificial I.mmortality
Sugar Sisters
Ann Shin, Hannah Donegan
A documentary that follows Hannah and her sisters, Amalia and Caroline, as they enter the highly controversial world of Sugar-Dating. Hoping for a Sugar Daddy with deep pockets to pay their bills, it turns out dating older, wealthy men for money isn't as sweet as it sounds.
Sugar Sisters
Smart Drugs
Ann Shin
If popping a pill could make you smarter and increase your memory would you take it? In this cinematic POV documentary Nik Badminton travels to Silicon Valley and immerses himself in the real world of bio-hacking and smart drugs as depicted by Hollywood films like Lucy and Limitless. As Nik tries drugs and treatments recommended by people in the business of self-optimization, he begins to question the bio-hacking movement and asks: are we losing sight of what makes us human?
Smart Drugs
