Sheldon Chau Trailers
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Born in the San Gabriel Valley of Los Angeles, Sheldon developed a passion for movies as a child when his dad brought home Jackie Chan films via a local laserdisc rental store. As a teenager, he discovered that movies went beyond entertainment when both his drama teacher and artist uncle recommended films from the Criterion Collection. After college, Sheldon made a short documentary in which he interviewed his father and learned of his parents’ harrowing journey out of Vietnam as boat people; this cemented his commitment to storytelling through filmmaking. Sheldon holds a BA from UC Irvine in Film Studies and an MFA from NYU Tisch in directing and cinematography.
Sheldon’s work has screened at top festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, Toronto, Venice, and Berlin. His recent credits as cinematographer include Demba - which premiered at this year’s Berlinale; Nafi’s Father - Senegal’s official entry to the 2021 Oscars - and Enmity Djinn - an episode of Netflix’s African Folktales Reimagined anthology. Sheldon is the winner of the ARRI Volker Bahnemann Award for Cinematography, a Visual Communications AWC Fellow, and part of the ASC Vision Mentorship program. As a director, his short film Flying Eggs was a 2021 Slamdance Film Festival selection and latest work In Max We Trust can be seen on YouTube’s Omeleto short film channel.
Sheldon has specialized in shooting internationally, working with diverse colleagues, and balancing both large- and guerrilla-sized crews. As a filmmaker, he continues to seek stories that are evocative, personal, and emotionally resonant.
Most Popular Sheldon Chau Trailers
Total trailers found: 27
15 December 2023
When a struggling comedian reluctantly returns home for the holidays, not only must she deal with her eccentric family, but she ultimately faces a life-changing decision about her special-needs brother.
16 September 2021
A hotshot investment firm CEO who prides himself in both representing Brooklyn and supporting local artists decides to venture into an ambitious real estate project to revolutionize a local neighborhood's art scene.
14 May 2025
When two boys are kidnapped in a border town in Nepal, Detective Inspector Pooja is sent from Kathmandu to solve the case.
05 October 2016
After the death of his beloved aunt, Daniel, a gay, struggling actor, visits Esther, his devout Christian, Korean mother.
20 June 2017
An idealistic recent film school graduate with few local professional options takes a road trip from Ohio to Los Angeles with his anxious best friend, his troubled high school sweetheart and a hitchhiker hippie, to chase his dream of becoming a filmmaker.
22 October 2018
A teenage boy takes playfulness a tad too far when he interrupts a man on his morning run by throwing eggs out the window.
24 January 2026
In Hong Kong, a young woman haunted by visions of her future self meets a stranger who changes the course of her night -- and possibly her life.
03 November 2019
Summer, 1997. In a small community in southwest China, an 8-year-old tries to capture the thief responsible for stealing his grandma's bike and enters the moral quandary for the first time.
26 June 2025
After witnessing the cruel sacrifice of his childhood friend, an atheist warrior rejects religion until love forces him to find his own faith.
19 April 2018
Ana, a devout nine-year-old girl, pushes her faith to the limit in hopes of divine intervention.
24 April 2018
After being sent to Nigeria against his will, a stubborn Nigerian-American teenager joins forces with an internet scammer in order to return to the United States.
17 April 2015
A father and son agree to a winner-take-all chess blitz in order to settle a bet.
11 May 2023
In a dark bedroom, when Hollis uses breath work to soothe herself, she suddenly is transported to a desert where she encounters her wounded inner child.
22 January 2016
The lines between trust,betrayal and forgiveness become gray and intertwined as we follow Amadou and Yaya, two Senegalese vendors working in New York.
19 March 2021
Arjun and Anu are fraternal twins who manage to run a scam in the US from India via a call center. With police officer Kumar hot on their heels, will they manage to escape the system?
19 January 2018
During winter break, a young woman struggles with her sexuality as she's torn between family expectations and her own desires.
17 October 2024
After her mother's traditional Chinese medicine shop is vandalized, a young botanist draws on the resilience of her local community and the healing remedies of her ancestors to contend with her deepest anxieties.
02 May 2025
After his mother’s unexpected death, a teenage car thief, Matías, is sent to live with the abusive father that they ran away from thirteen years earlier.
29 March 2023
A matriarch is forced to confront a malevolent djinn that once haunted her past. A djinn folktale reimagined.
06 December 2014
On a random night of summer 1998, two good friends from a boarding school travel through time to 15 years ahead by pure happenstance.
17 February 2024
55-year-old Demba is about to retire after 30 years of service at the city hall in his small town in Northern Senegal.
01 January 2022
Living in Ras Al Khaimah, UAE, a conservative society, Maitha has a small and seemingly simple dream of swimming in the sea that she frequents.
26 January 2022
In Manhattan’s Chinatown, 66-year-old widowed Yokelan goes to dance class in search of love again.
23 September 2016
Two young Senegalese boys are determined to see one last film at the town movie theater before it closes forever.
18 October 2025
Two Elders exiled from their community must depend on their strength, ancestral knowledge, and each other to survive in the harsh Alaskan wilderness.
27 November 2019
Tokara wants to marry his cousin, the beautiful Nafi, bringing their fathers into conflict with one another.
31 January 2026
In the desert of the Payahuunadü valley (the name means “land of flowing water”) of California, a father performs butoh for the first time in front of his former prodigy rock climber child.
