Photo: Courtesy of Alyssa Loh
Wrestling with a compulsion towards self-harm and pain, isolated law student Mia (Sonoya Mizuno, Ex-Machina) meets Josie, a young, native New Yorker who appears warm, at ease and in control. Their connection deepens as the night progresses, leading them into uncharted territory.
From midnight romance and spiritual family drama to sci-fi rom-com and gangster thriller, these six dynamic short films expand the boundaries of Asian female representation on the silver screen.
Alyssa Loh is a filmmaker and writer based in New York. She was a 2021 Sundance Lab Fellow and Sundance | Alfred P. Sloan Development Fellow. She was recently selected for TIFF's 2023 Breakthroughs program and the 2023 Wscripted Cannes Screenplay List. Her short film, Let, premiered at SXSW in March of 2024, and is currently on the festival circuit (SIFF, Palm Springs Shortfest, NYAFF). It won NYU’s Martin E. Segal Production Award, Roger King Finishing Award, Riese Production Award, Faculty Commendation in Filmmaking, and Screenwriting, Acting, and Sound Design Craft Awards. Her first short — a genre film called Other Bodies — premiered at Fantasia in 2021, where it won Best Actor. Her essays on technology, surveillance, and visual culture have appeared in The New York Times, Artforum, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. She sits on the Editorial Board of the history journal Lapham’s Quarterly, and is associated with the collective The Friends of Attention.
