Where Withered Flowers Grow

Our Precious Autumn follows Ami, a young manga artist struggling with burnout. After several sleepless nights, she collapses and awakens in a dreamscape, facing three encounters that help her rediscover her reason for drawing.

After the sudden death of her parents, Lucina Mai moves to the bustling city of New Millenia, where she meets with an online friend to discuss a tempting job offer. "Emergence" is Studio Penrose’s first film as a newly-formed studio, and acts as an introduction to the cinematic universe that subsequent Studio Penrose films will take place in. This film has been nominated for the Raindance Immersive 2023 "Best Short Film of VR" award.

A poor soul named Elliot has found himself haunted by a mysterious curse. Eyes are everywhere, and the voices of something or someone follow him in the dead of night. All he can do is run home, maybe there he’ll be safe…

In a unknown time, an artist is abruptly visited by an interviewer eighty years from the future. Lives yet-lived and memories re-discovered blur together in this experimental short film.

When Anna struggles to navigate life as a young trans woman, she meets Chloe and finds in her the community and support she has been missing. After many memorable hikes together, Anna is devastated to learn that Chloe is moving away. As they go on one last hike among the redwoods, Anna can’t bear to say goodbye. Set against a backdrop of rising anti-trans legislation across the country, Memories of Redwoods is a quiet, emotionally intimate story about trans friendship, chosen family, and hope for the future.