Michael Thomas James Movies

Sarah spends her days keeping afloat a run-down relic of a movie theater, along with her pretentious motley crew of film lovers who occasionally get...

Seventeen-year-old Pakistani American teenager Hala struggles to balance desire with her family, cultural, and religious obligations. As she comes...

VERA is a sci-fi drama short film that focuses on an astronaut who is stranded alone in space and is now headed on a collision course with the Sun....

A defeated artist from the Westside of Chicago finds inspiration in the common ground she discovers through a spontaneous interaction with an art...

Guided by their ancestors, two friends go on a magical adventure through Humboldt Park to replace a spiritual offering they knocked over at a lively...

A non-binary queer teen cultivates community, individuality, and resilience through the subculture of the DIY punk scene in Little Village.

A genetically enhanced soldier discovers that she's been misled by her boss while on assignment. Feeling betrayed, she must decide between completing...

Chronicles a single day in the summer of 1989 when the future president of the United States, Barack Obama, wooed his future First Lady on an epic...

The Mechanic returns to seek the orb and the power it contains.

Following a failed engagement, Lou discovers she has a talent for writing other people’s wedding vows. Word spreads across Chicago’s...

The Orange Story is a narrative short film that tells the story of an elderly Japanese American man who must sell all his belongings and report to a...

An immigrant child uncovers a world of magic and possibility through the arts at their school.

Louie, an acclaimed writer, returns to his hometown after his father's death. Confronted with a host of people from his past, Louie is forced to...

A Japanese American woman connects with her grandmother

Between phone conversations, Rudy stops at a gas station and undergoes a life-changing event.

A struggling young baker in no mood for the holidays returns to her small hometown, where her festive family and a handsome farmer try to get her...

A group of amateur crime solvers as they take a trip to an infamous campsite to investigate an unsolved murder. When the group wakes up the next...