Student films
Screenwriter Yizhou wrote a story set in Western Sichuan: Photographer Yu Yan travels to Yuzixi to find the mountain god who is said to predict the future. After fainting, he is rescued by Tibetan girl Pema Chodron.
As they travel and live together, they gradually develop feelings for each other. Yu Yan discovers that her cowhide diary can foresee their ending. Yu Yan leaves in a fit of anger but returns, and the story repeats itself. Yu Yan and Pema Chodron are both projections of the two sides of Yizhou's inner self.
This short film focuses on the protagonist, Ruirui, telling the story of her life intertwined with her younger brother and mother—a family in which the father has been absent for an extended period. At the beginning of the story, while watching an animated film, Ruirui returns to her room to retrieve her headphones and happens to overhear her mother angrily reacting to her brother's cut-off nails caused by his grandmother. However, despite facing a similar situation herself, Ruirui's emotions are consistently ignored by her mother. Later, in a moment of desperation, Ruirui takes her brother's headphones, only to be met with an unjustified scolding from her mother. After the argument, her mother flips through an old photo album and suddenly realizes the long-standing neglect she has shown Ruirui. She then prepares breakfast and delivers new headphones to her, hoping to make up for the love that had been overlooked.
Haunted by a collapsing relationship, a young man journeys through a dreamlike subconscious landscape where a Snow Woman consumes his memories, forcing him to choose between erasing the pain of love or returning to reality and confronting the emotions he has tried to escape.
In a near-apocalyptic future, a son discovers the unsettling truth about his father’s creation and embarks on a reckless mission against his mother to reconnect with him in his catatonic state.
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Hello! I am Thomas (Tom, Tommy, doesn't matter as long it's a form of Tom) Spence, nice to meet you! I started my filmmaking career taking a screenwriting & video production class in high school, making simple class project videos like PSA's and music video's. I was always confused on what I wanted to do with my life, as most classes in school felt like busywork and didn't take much interest, but that first video production class changed everything. For the first time, I partook in class discussions constantly, and didn't groan when the teacher announced a project is being assigned.
Jokes aside, that is when I found out what I wanted to do with my life. In college, I enrolled at the New York Film Academy in Manhattan, with a BFA in Filmmaking. There I learned more than just writing and taking a camera and shooting, I learned the ins and outs of every position one can be when a film is being made. During my time at NYFA, I wrote, directed, and, produced two short films for my capstone, "Best Seller", and "Scam Likely", which are being submitted to festivals.
I also have been a background actor for Amazon Prime shows like "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel" and "Shelter", you can see me if you pause the show exactly at a specific frame!
When John, a brilliant but volatile lawyer on the brink of personal ruin, accepts a massive retainer to defend a wealthy businessman accused of murdering his own son, it seems like a straightforward path to redemption. The suspect claims innocence, pointing toward an accidental shooting amidst a toxic family dispute. But as John dives deeper into the investigation, drowning in files, contradictions, and unsettling evidence, enters a psychological labyrinth. Confronted by a grieving, unyielding mother and an enigmatic family history, the line between hunter and hunted begins to blur. Driven by obsession, John must uncover the truth behind a tragic family dynamic before the darkness consumes the case and his last chance at saving his own family.
