OUR STORY

At Dear Hero Studios, we're on a mission to shatter stereotypes and empower underrepresented voices in the film industry. As a creative development and production service house based in Vancouver, British Columbia, we're dedicated to championing better representation of Asian culture and heritage on the big screen, being unapologetically authentic.

 

REVERSE (Short film - 2021)

A hardened, time-travelling, hitman reluctantly chooses between eliminating his high-profile target or stopping the painful (and pivotal) heartbreak of his younger self happening across the room.

  • Production Company: Dear Hero Studios, Soon Films

  • Executive Producers: Curtis Lum, Milton Ng, Josh Aries, Rorelee Tio, Marc Yungco, Faraz Masoodi

  • Producers: Nightingale, Raymond Tat

  • Writers: Paolo Valdes, Joshua Aries, Curtis Lum Director: Joshua Aries Cinematographer: Marc Yungco Starring: Curtis Lum, Lissa Neptuno, Donna Benedicto

  • Released: August 27, 2021 (currently on festival tour)

DEATH ROW (SHORT FILM - 2021)

It's the year 2025 and Max aka Inmate 0713, one of the greatest drug kingpins of the decade, is about to be served his last meal moments before he must serve his death sentence. But Max, a brilliant criminal mastermind, has got one last ace up his sleeve.

  • Production Company: Dear Hero Studios Producers: Kent S. Leung, Milton Ng

  • Director: Kent S. Leung

  • Cinematographer: Milton Ng

  • Starring: Kent S. Leung, Kimberly Wong

CAFE RACER (SHORT FILM - 2021)

After escaping death, Rini, a Japanese-Canadian teenager continues to push the limits of Cafe Street Racing despite her mother begging her to quit.

  • Production Company: Vesperia Films & Dear Hero Studios

  • Executive Producers: Harrison Houde, Dakota Daulby

  • Line Producer: Milton Ng

  • Associate Producers: Bill Kal, Ray Tat

  • Cinematographer: Leonardo Harim

  • Starring: Aya Furukawa, Peter Shinkoda, Yuki Morita, Ian Tracey