Author: Jason Whyte

“People often say, we should get dinner, when they haven’t seen someone they know in a long time and more often than not they just don’t mean it. It’s a throw away line, an exit strategy, a way to keep things light, but seem sincere. But what happens if you get trapped in this dinner […]

“Anagha Narayan is your average eighth grader. She’s a people pleaser, she’s insecure, and she wants nothing more than to have clear skin. Her life changes drastically when she wishes on a fallen eyelash and her wish is granted: she has the clearest skin she’s ever had. When word gets out that Anagha has magic […]

“DEAR MAMA… is a beautiful story set in the mid-90s in South LA, about a family navigating the grief of losing a loved one at the same time that the death of hip-hop artist, actor and activist, Tupac is announced. His death forces them to confront the emotional aftermath of their own tragedy. The film […]

“The short depicts two stories told in parallel, both about accepting the unknown. It follows Sara, an astronaut, as she finds herself in a situation of certain death and struggling to accept death and what happens after, and Sara, as a child, being scared of sleeping in the dark and the uncertainty of what may […]

“In TOMORROW’S HOPE you’ll get to know real people making a real difference on the South Side of Chicago. This is an experience that leads you heart-first into some of our most talked-about issues today, including systemic racism and the importance of providing access to education. It’s a journey with passionate educators and kids and […]

“The film follows the humble, dedicated few behind NASA’s longest running mission. They are the Voyager flight team engineers – who, from a drab, low-level, rented office space next to a McDonald’s, pilot the most distant mandmade objects through the unchartered frontier of interstellar space. Fighting outmoded, 1970s techonology and an ever shrinking window of […]

“At the beginning of the pandemic in March 2020, I moved back home to my rural hometown in Bad Axe, MI. I began filming my close-knit Asian-American family and our struggles to keep our family restaurant alive during a very uncertain time. What I ended up capturing was a beautiful portrait of the year 2020 […]

SANTOS SKIN TO SKIN is an outsider’s story, a film about the love of family, music and overcoming loss. John Santos’ story transcends the individual into something we can all recognize and it uses music to get us there.  He’s not just a musician. He’s a culture bearer, a historian and a father who looks […]