Jeff Kao

5.0 Movie"What do you do when the spark touches down-brief and hot?" So begins award-winning director Rob Nilsson's (Permission to Touch, MVFF 2015; A Bridge to a Border, MVFF...

Love Twice

2016

9.0 MovieA husband-and-wife pair of retired cult deprogrammers experience marital strife when their past catches up with them.

Raise Your Kids on Seltzer

2015

MovieTraumatized by his recent divorce, lovelorn Stanley takes off cross country to San Francisco, landing at his enterprising sister Nancy's doorstep. Nancy, who makes...

Countercurrents

MovieFour interlocking stories with a Jazz theme. Four Women go out to visit the sites of the jazz clubs where Lou, 65 and dying of cancer, claims she once performed as a...

The Fourth Movement

2017

MovieAfter his mom leaves him and his little brother, Aaron is forced to help his abusive step-father with his credit card scam. Set in the East Bay Area, California -...

The Defender of Sitting Ducks

MovieBilly discovers a secret of his past.

St. Cloud

2014

MovieKnowing Nothing Cold follows a group of teenagers living in the American midwest of the 1970s as they attempt the impossibility of a graceful enterance into adulthood.

Knowing Nothing Cold

2017

MovieA look into the lives of two eleven year-olds spending a summer weekend fighting off boredom. Based on Kao's own memories of a cherished childhood in Iowa during the...

Cutting the Pattern

2013

Movie'Under the Overpass and Far Away' is a musical fantasy set on the streets of Oakland. It follows Dariya, a teenage runaway, and Poki, a down-and-out centaur, as they...

Under the Overpass and Far Away