To help bring BETTER LUCK TOMORROW (2002) to life, writer/director Justin Lin collaborated with AFI Alum Patrice Lucien Cochet (AFI Class of 1998), who served as the cinematographer for the film. When investors pulled their financial support of the film, Lin made a desperate call to MC Hammer, whom he’d met years prior at a trade show. Though the...

COLUMBUS (2017) follows the son of a renowned architecture scholar who finds himself stranded in Columbus, Indiana. Written, directed and edited by Kogonada, the film stars John Cho and Haley Lu Richardson and received four Independent Spirit Awards in the categories of Best First Feature, Best First Screenplay, Best Cinematography and the Piaget Producers Award....