Sad Girl Productions

11/28/2025

Hi all! Short film submissions are now open for the Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival 2026 (Colorado's only all-Asian film festival!)!! If you know any AANHPI filmmakers with short films, especially if they’re local, please send them our way 🙂 (Deadline to submit is Jan 23rd, and more info on guidelines/themes below.)

Submit Your Film Submit your short films for our Short Films Showcases.SUBMISSIONS ARE NOW OPEN! DEADLINE: January 23rd, 2026 Film Requirements: Must align with the goal of the Colorado Dragon Boat Film Festival: ”The goal of the Colorado Dragon Film Festival is to celebrate the Asian Americ...

03/16/2024

hi friends!!!

As many of you know, Rep. Leslie Herod has been working tirelessly to improve Colorado's support of film, television, and media. Last year she helped pass a $5M in film incentives – the most we've ever had. And now she's sponsoring a bill (HB24-1358*) to extend that incentive program for an additional four years!! Rep. Herod describes this bill as an "on-ramp" to bigger and better things.

To help it pass, she has asked one thing from us:

Rally with her on the steps of the state capitol this coming Thursday, March 21, from 11:30 to 1pm. Wearing BLUE.

hope to see you there. register here (for free) and tell ur friends:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cinema-day-rally-for-colorado-film-tickets-863899646097

CINEMA DAY 2024, Rally for Colorado Film, TV + Media
Thu Mar 21, 11:30am - 1pm MT
Colorado State Capitol - West steps
200 East Colfax Avenue Denver, CO 80203
WEAR BLUE!

*https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/hb24-1358

03/07/2022

One last photo from yesterday. Thanks .salzmann for taking/sending me this! Such a wonderful panel of people! (I basically just talked about the inspiration behind the music video concept and how lovely/fun it was to work with Esmé !)
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Also! It was so cool to listen to Roma Sur speak about her beautiful documentary Maa - definitely my fave film of the showcase, and I’m so excited I got to watch it, let alone screen alongside it. Go check it out!

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03/06/2022

Had so much fun today at the Colorado Dragon Film Festival !! Thank you Sara for creating such a wonderful and creative space for filmmakers to come together and share their work. Thank you for making that beautiful “All Mine” music video with me - everyone loved seeing it screen! And thanks Jazmine and Gigi .salzmann (both actresses in the music video) for coming!! To the rest of the crew and cast, love you lots.
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02/11/2022

Heya, Marin here! SURPRISE, I’m directing an animated short film I wrote about silly little animals in love! It’s a comedy! It’s a romance! It’s gay! It’s very me! God, I love love. Y’all know this…

Here are the beautiful actors I have been secretly working with the past month on this cheeky little sneaky little project:

🦖 Alexis Rae: Tyra the T-Rex
🥚 Monique Salas: Piper the Pterodactyl
🐢 Artie Thompson: Tammy the Tortoise
🐓 Maya Jairam: Candace the Chicken
🦕 Alex Hatton: Beau the Brontosaurus

We’ve been rehearsing and we voice record later this month. More info soon…
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02/03/2022

The Colorado Dragon Film Festival () is back in person, baybee!! At the Denver Sie Film Center ()! This festival is Colorado’s only all-Asian film festival, and it’s near and dear to my heart.
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This year, I am SO excited to screen “All Mine” - a music video we made for Esmé Patterson’s () beautiful song. This was the last in-person project I was a part of before COVID hit, so how very fitting for it to make its festival debut as we safely come back together.
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We’ll be screening in the “Emerging Artists Showcase” on Sunday, March 6th, at 12pm. Come say hi and hang out w me! Tickets and more info in bio.
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Big love to the cast and crew.
-Marin x
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09/15/2021

“I Put the Bi in Bitter” Season 2 won the “Best Short Series” Award at HIFF 2021!!! I’m so incredibly honored and grateful. Thank you a million to the amazing crew, cast, and every single one of you who has watched the series, shared the series, and supported us.
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Thank you HIFF for championing filmmakers and celebrating episodic work!!
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And special thank yous to the series’ OGs Kelley , Dannah , Gabi , Alex , Josh , Diana , Lee , Rhema , Rhianna .devries, Evangelina .kisa, and Tracy … We made a thing and it holds up!! I owe y’all my entire heart.
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09/12/2021

Thank you for the wonderful film festival (as always) and for screening IPTBIB Season 2! I’ve missed in person events so much and I’m grateful for the incredible space that HIFF creates every year to celebrate and be around other filmmakers. Tomorrow is their last day, but if you can’t make it out, link in bio to their VIRTUAL festival which you can still buy tickets to!!
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09/04/2021

ONE WEEK FROM TODAY! As our (very long) IPTBIB festival run comes to a close, will be one of the LAST times you can see IPTBIB on a big screen! They’ll be showing Season 2 episodes 1-5.
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Date: Saturday, September 11th.
Time: 5:30pm (in the “Space” theatre for the “LGBTQ+ Stories” block).
Location: The Lyric Cinema, Fort Collins.
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Come support an amazing film festival, and other amazing local CO filmmakers! (Also, I’ve missed seeing people in person, so hope to see y’all there!)
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There are other screenings happening all day/week as well. Link in bio for tix and info. DM us for a 20% off discount code!! x
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08/30/2021

The Hit comedy, "I Put the Bi in Bitter" follows the story of a bisexual teen and her le***an BFF, trying to survive crushes and the awkwardness that comes with being young.

Even better, it was made by a majority female, POC & LGBT cast & crew?