Immigrant and working-class home cooks fight to build businesses from their own kitchens — a story of food, dignity, and economic opportunity. Best Documentary Short at the Sonoma and California International Film Festivals, an official selection of the Oscar-qualifying AmDocs Film Festival, and winner of Telly Awards for Directing and Social Impact. A feature-length version premieres on PBS in 2026.
An L.A. Times series on Holocaust survivors — their testimony, memory, and resilience.
Teenagers engage directly with Holocaust survivors about antisemitism and memory — a hybrid animated short bridging generations before living memory fades.
In Sonoma, California, Chinese laborers planted over 80% of the original vineyards — then were driven out, physically and legislatively, by the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Two Chinese-Americans now live inside that buried history: Jack Ding, Sonoma's first Chinese-American mayor, who has spent a decade fighting bureaucracy, a pandemic, and tariffs to build a memorial ting for those invisible laborers; and Coral Wang, who makes wine on the land of Sonoma's first mayor — the man who originally brought those workers here. Drawing on Cantonese ghost lore, rare Eadweard Muybridge photographs, and traditional ink-wash animation, Forgotten Vines braids documentary and spiritual lore to ask: what do we owe the ones who built what we inherited — and what does it mean that, 140 years later, we are still deciding?