Netflix + Gold House
Future Gold Fellowship
The Future Gold Fellowship was a partnership between Netflix, Tribeca and Gold House to drive & support the AAPI Director pipeline. This program seeks to uplift experienced AAPI directors and to celebrate stories from the Asian and Pacific Islander communities.
Netflix, Gold House and Tribeca Studios join forces to support three promising filmmakers.
Future Gold Film Fellowship is an opportunity for three API directors to tell the stories they have been dreaming of telling for and about their communities and experiences, presented as short scripted films across genres and topics.
Three selected fellows received full funding; creative feedback and mentorship from Tribeca Studios and Netflix executives as well as production support from Tribeca; exposure to established talent within the Gold House network; and a seat in Gold House Futures, the premier collective of the most promising next-gen API creatives, founders, and social impact leaders.
The Films
Inheritance
A struggling nature photographer is forced to confront the pain his family has carried for generations.
Erin Lau
Director
Raised in Kahaluʻu, Hawaiʻi, Native Hawaiian filmmaker Erin Lau has dedicated her life to creating empathy-forward stories for her community. Erin was selected as a Sundance Native Lab fellow for her Chapman University MFA thesis, The Moon and the Night. The award-winning film went on to screen in over 30 festivals, including being short-listed for the 2018 Student BAFTA awards and licensed by the Criterion Channel. Since graduation, Erin has signed with the United Talent Agency (UTA) and continued her growth through opportunities with the Sundance Institute, Film Independent’s Project Involve, Unlock Her Potential, Points North Institute, Nia Tero, Powderkeg’s Break The Room, and the Future Gold Film Fellowship. For three years, she worked as a Senior Producer-Director for Jubilee Media, where her videos accumulated over 130 million views. Through this work, she was also given the opportunity to develop empathy-forward content for brands including Google, Netflix, and Always. She now works as a freelance producer and director, while developing projects inspired by her community and home.
Closing Dynasty
On a school day, a precocious seven year-old girl, Queenie, hustles and schemes ways to make money on the streets of New York City.
Lloyd Lee Choi
Director
Lloyd Lee Choi is a writer/director with a passion for telling stories about those on the fringes of society. His work focuses on discovering the nuance and beauty in the everyday moments, told with a cinematic and curious eye. Named 30 under 30 by Marketing Magazine, as well as winning awards at the Cannes Lions, Clio’s, Spike Awards, and Arc Awards, he has helmed global campaigns for brands like Playstation, Google, Chevrolet, and National Geographic. He balances his work slate with socially conscious projects every year, writing and directing short films and PSAs for ACLU, Zappos, AARP, and Stress Health. Passionate about representation in front and behind the camera, he is deeply driven to highlight the minority and immigrant experience - one rich with new and compelling stories to tell. Stories that reflect the real world around us.
The Resemblance
When a grieving older couple go to a "rental family" agency to hire an actor to role-play their dead son, they discover that their evening of remembrance is more than they bargained for.
Derek Nguyen
Director
A refugee of the Vietnam war, Derek Nguyen is a screenwriter, director, and producer. His directorial feature debut The Housemaid was released by IFC Films in 2018 and sold to 22 different territories around the world. An American adaption called Grave Hill is heading to production in 2022, written by Oscar-winner Geoffrey Fletcher (Precious), directed by Deon Taylor (Black & Blue) and produced by CJ Entertainment (Parasite). He was a 2004 fellow at the Sundance Screenwriters Lab for his screenplay, Monster based on his award-winning play. He is the co-founder of The Population, which has produced Carlo Mirabella-Davis’ Swallow (IFC Films), Heidi Ewing’s I Carry You With Me (Sony Pictures Classics), and upcoming Josef Kubota Wladyka’s Catch The Fair One. Derek was also on the producing team for Jennifer Fox's The Tale, So Yong Kim's Lovesong, Sarah Adina Smith's Buster’s Mal Heart, and Hannah Fidell's Long Dumb Road, among others.