madeline’s madeline

WRITER-DIRECTOR * Josephine Decker
PRODUCER * Krista Parris
Producer & Co-EDITOR * ELIZABETH RAO
CINEMATOGRAPHER * Ashley Connor
PRODUCTION DESIGN * Charlotte Royer
COSTUME DESIGN * Sarah Maiorino

World Premiere Sundance Film Festival * International Premiere Berlinale * BAM Cinemafest Closing Night * Gotham Nominee Best Feature, Breakthrough Actor * Indie Spirit Nominee Best Female Lead, Best Cinematography * ICS Award for Best Editing

One of the freshest and most exciting films of the 21st century…A Mind Scrambling Masterpiece
— Indiewire
...Singular and profound, an unruly and uncompromised work of art.
— Barry Jenkins
An ecstatic, anguished, fiercely empathetic masterwork
— The New Yorker
⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐
— The Guardian
The Best Film of 2018
— The New Yorker
Top 100 Best Movies of the Decade
— Indiewire

materna (2020)

WRITER-DIRECTOR * David Gutnik
PRODUCERS * Emily McEvoy, Liz Cardenas
CINEMATOGRAPHER * Greta Zozula, Chananun Chotrungroj, Kelly Jeffrey
EDITOR * Elizabeth Rao, Brusi Olason
PRODUCTION DESIGN * Heather Yancey, April Lasky, Rasul Kochkorbaev 
COSTUME DESIGN * Akua Murray-Adoboe, elvira kochkorbaev

World Premiere and Double-Award Winner Tribeca Film Festival for Best Actress and Best Cinematography * Best Narrative Feature at Naples IFF * Best Narrative Feature at Florida Film Festival * Award-winner at Raindance FF, Denver IFF, BendFilm Festival * Additional premieres at San Francisco IFF * Nashville FF, Champs-Elysees, Woodstock, Bahamas, American Film Festival

Arresting...each section leaves it’s mark
— The New York Times
Nothing short of radical...leaves a lasting and profound impression
— Screen Queens
Spellbinding performances
— Indiewire
Absorbing
— Roger Ebert

MAINELAND (2017)

DIRECTOR * Miao Wang
PRODUCERS * Violet Du Feng, Damon G. Smith
CINEMATOGRAPHER * Sean Price Williams
EDITOR * Elizabeth Rao

SXSW World Premiere and Special Jury Award Winner for Excellence in Observational Cinema * Best Documentary Feature Winner, Independent Film Festival of Boston * Audience Award Winner, New Hampshire Film Festival

Captures the Dreams and Anxieties of Affluent Chinese Teens At an American Boarding School...a Quiet Marvel of a documentary
— The New Yorker
NY Times Critics’ Pick - MAINELAND takes up a large and complicated set of topics — the global economy, the shifting relations between East and West, the commodification of American education — and addresses them with understated delicacy
— A.O. Scott