Hiro Murai

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    Experimental Hiro Murai

    Clapping For the Wrong Reasons

    Multi-hyphenate star Donald Glover and frequent collaborator Hiro Murai craft a meandering but poignant indictment of hip-hop materialism.

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    SXSW 2022: A Short-Centric Guide

    Headliners, features, pilots, shorts - We take a look at our previously featured filmmakers in the 2022 SXSW program.

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    Drama Koya Kamura

    Homesick

    Two years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Murai braves danger and wanders through the no-go zone in order to spend time with Jun, his eight-year-old son.

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    Drama Greg Jardin

    Floating

    Fragile and lonely, a being made up of balloons wanders LA searching for connection.

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    Drama Jackie! Zhou

    Order for Pickup

    Trapped in a cycle of work and self-isolation, burnt out Kelsey’s reality starts to blur until an irregular order for pickup disrupts everything.

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    Thriller Tomás Whitmore

    Allie & I

    A lonely musician falls in love with a mysterious being named Allie. What begins as an idyllic romance becomes a fight for his sanity as Allie drags him into the recesses of his own fragile psyche.

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    Filmmaker Update: Nov 2017

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