Justine Ellen Chen

Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas

Five soap opera divas as they reunite to shoot the final Christmas episode of their long-running sudser. The producer, Alex and director Nell, who happen to be old college friends, do their best to keep things on the rails but as the ladies come together, old rivalries resurface that threaten to tear the production apart.

News for Home

A phone rings, and, via voicemail, the news of a hate crime against a family member is relayed from mother to children. They’ll have to finish cooking by themselves.

House Rules

An Asian American teenage girl, dying to lose her virginity, breaks some house rules (among other things) in order to get what she wants.

To Feel A Body.

In order to prevent further self harming, a young woman is forced to live in a new synthetic body, and must navigate intimacy in a physical form she fundamentally feels disconnected from.

To Feel A Body.

In order to prevent further self harming, a young woman is forced to live in a new synthetic body, and must navigate intimacy in a physical form she fundamentally feels disconnected from.

The Roof

After being sent to stay with his grandfather, a Cheyenne teen uncovers a connection to his family and community in a way he never thought possible.

Maxine

Allie is a newly out teen who is keeping her girlfriend a secret from her Chinese American family. During her family’s celebration of the Hungry Ghost Festival, Allie meets the ghost of a long lost relative named Maxine, who was queer when she was alive several decades ago. Though they come from different times, they find that they share many feelings about struggling to belong, especially within their own family’s legacy.

Legally Brown: The Musical The Short

A scrappy brown high school girl must fight her way to be Elle Woods when the lead of her school's production of Legally Blonde: The Musical gets seriously injured ten minutes before showtime.

Year of the Rat

Yearning for companionship but failing to connect with her American daughter, a middle-aged Chinese immigrant turns to the unlikely world - Of online dating.

Plum Town

A young land developer returns to his childhood home in the Chinese countryside for the first time in a decade with the hopes of convincing his stubborn father to sell the family plum orchard. Plum Town is a crowd favorite depicting the countryside admist the reconciliation of a son and his father. His father loves karaoke but has his own ways of singing on an old instrument for karaoke unlike the fancy new ones in the city that his son brags about. The changes in their situations only further brings them together once again uniting them in dignity and grace. Watch this movie for a perfect karaoke ending. See it at montageplay.com

All I Ever Wanted

Rom-com obsessed teen Christine has always longed for the picture-perfect romance - but she's soon confronted with the fact that her ideal prince charming might actually be a princess charming instead.