Roots that Reach Towards the Sky



Awards

2024 First Run Film Festival, Craft Awards — Faculty Commendation for Thesis Work, Best Sound Design
2021 NYU Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Science in Film Production Award 
2022 Sundance Uprise Grant Finalist 
2022 C.V. Starr Fund for A/P/A Research 
When her immigrant mother’s Chinese Traditional Medicine shop gets vandalized, Kai, a young botanist is thrust in between her mother’s grief and her muralist partner’s mission for community catharsis, and must confront the barriers to her own healing. 

Writer/Director – Jess X. Snow | Co-writer – Kit Yan
Producers – Frisly Soberanis, Akemi Look, Eris Qian, Yumeng Han
Production Houses: Tierra Narrative, A Wondering Comet
Director of Photography – Sheldon Chau
Starring – Shirley Chen, Pearl Wu, Che'Li
Production Design – Prisca Choe
Editor– April Du | Additional Editing– Andrew Migliori
Original Score– Treya Lam | Music Mixing – Chucky Kim