Sophie
2015 | Screened at over 15 film festivals around the world
Set in Kowloon, Hong Kong, 8-year-old, Sophie Cheung is abandoned by her mother, and forced to live and connect with her grandmother.
Our Way Home – 归程
2018 | World Premiere: HollyShorts (2018)
The year is 1962. James picks up his older sister, Barbara from college for the Thanksgiving holiday. After a racist encounter in a nearby diner, they think they're being followed, but realize in the end that it's not someone they…
Rencontres Paysannes (Farmers Dating)
2021 | Starting Festival Submissions
In rural France, a young farmer’s heart is broken. Her name is Victoire. Struggling to understand the new world of dating via technology, she’s not sure her tomatoes are ripe for anyone. Synopsis written by Catherine Gagne.
POP!
Projected Release: 2022 | Post-Production Completed
NYU Thesis Short Film / "POP!” is a mother-daughter dramedy. "POP" follows the travails of an unemployed, thirtysomething Chinese American woman living at home with her mother, as she obsesses over ways to remedy or mask her adult acne in…
Gu
2016 | 1st Prize Winner - 2016 NYU First Run Film Festival (Graduate Film)
On a gloomy day, Gu takes a train back to his hometown for the first time in years to reunite with his wife and son, in court.
RETURNING HOME – PAUWI
2015 | Shortlisted for the BAFTA US Short Film Awards 2015
Moises, 45, picks up his terminally ill brother, whom he hasn't seen in years, from the hospital. He brings him home to the countryside of Northern Philippines, and seizes this last opportunity to try to connect with him.
Dove Real Beauty Sketches Asia
2015 | Director, Producer: Alexandra Hsu
Spec commercial inspired by the Dove Real Beauty Sketches Short Film Campaign in 2013 Coming Soon / Inquire for Link
7UP Feels Good to Be You
2014 | Producer: Alle Hsu
7UP Feels Good to Be You Commercial // Made for the MOFILM Competition in 2014
Hope
2017
After a chemical spill takes her eyesight away, a photographer struggles with losing her passion and begins to lucid dream, causing her to blur the lines between what’s real and what’s not.
Jalogüin
2019 | World Premiere: Austin Film Festival 2019
NYU Thesis Short Film // Maria is a 24-year-old Mexican woman who crosses the Tijuana/California border with her son, Julio. Today is different. It’s Halloween. The local radio station in San Diego is holding a costume contest that they’re sure…
That is Circling All Round the Sun
2017 | A Chinese man and a special landscape in Utah.
A young man from Hong Kong comes to America to look for his long-lost sister, without learning her fatal accident. In Utah, instead of finding her, he finds a special landscape where echoes her soul.
Haagen Dazs: Keys
2014 | Producer: Alle Hsu
Haagen Dazs Commercial // Placed 3rd in the MOFILM Competition in 2014 Director's Cut