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Julie Liao

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EP: The Vale Origins, Memories of Us Producer: For One Night Only, Nondecomposable, Behind the Wheel

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I’m so excited to announce that our film, The Vale — Origins, is having its global online premiere today! It is now streaming on Omeleto, the world’s premier platform for award-winning short films with 4 million subscribers.

The film follows a grieving inventor family who finds new life in their young child’s imaginations. Based on the NYT best selling novel by Abigail Hing Wen, it stars 3x-Tony Award Winner Lea Salonga and animation by Emmy Winner John Aoshima.

We are coming off an incredible festival run, including a world premiere at San Diego Comic-Con to nearly 1000 people, plus taking home Best Animation at Geekfest’s Long Beach Comic Con Film Festival, Best Actor (for Lea Salonga) at San Diego Kids International Film Festival and Best Adaptation at Portland’s Festival of Cinema, Animation and Technology.

Now, we finally get to share it with all of you. You can watch the full film right here:

🎬 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3T3G1iy44s

Omeleto.png by @byjulieliao

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Huge congratulations to @tobin_carter for having TWO short films accepted into the prestigious 2026 Catalina Film Festival, For One Night Only as an Official Selection and Nondecomposable as an online showcase selection by @byjulieliao

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Congratulations on The Vale-Origin’s world premiere and panel at San Diego Comic Con 🎉, with over 800 in attendance! Thank you all for your love and support 💕. ORIGINAL SCORE and “Lavender’s Blue”from @andromeda.saxophone LYRICS from @abigailhingwen PERFORMED by @msleasalonga https://youtu.be/Rfh8Hwn49n0?feature=shared by @byjulieliao

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For One Night Only (2025, written and directed by Tobin Carter): SYNOPSIS: Six months after the loss of Quinn’s childhood best friend Alex, Quinn returns home from college for the holidays. However, at a party, he meets a girl who could pass as Alex’s doppelgänger, forcing Quinn to confront his unchecked grief.
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When I was at college, there were so many people from home I found myself missing desperately, and it was so easy to try to build relationships with new people off of foundations you created with someone else. But I learned you can’t masquerade as a ghost in somebody else’s life, and learning that was such a valuable moment in my life.

Going into this film I was incredibly daunted. I wanted a Christmas movie, to shoot in July. I had written some of my most complex characters to date. There were so many locations. It would require a huge crew. Yet somehow I got so lucky, and I got the best team imaginable to bring this film to life! I’m so so excited for everyone to see this one — I’m so beyond proud of it.
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Poster by the amazing @probably_dylan_coty
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(Crew in comments) taken in San Diego, California by @byjulieliao

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Congratulations to the cast and crew of Nondecomposable for Best Paranormal Film at the Cannes World Film Festival @worldfilmfestivalincannes AND Best Cinematography at the Calgary Independent Film Festival by @byjulieliao

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Big thanks to @bnsbrewinganddistilling 🤠 for the warm hospitality! @c.me.productions is grateful for the chance to shoot Memories of Us by @byjulieliao

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Nondecomposable (2025, written and directed by Tobin Carter): Synopsis: A woman discovers she is a ghost, but it’s the decisions she made in her life that come back to haunt her.
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Making this film specifically for a competition, Nondecomposable was a special challenge for me. I’ve always struggled with wanting to make scripts longer, so being limited to only being allowed a five minute runtime challenged me in a way I never had been before. The challenge was to make a horror film, but instead of jump scares I knew I wanted to lean into the unnerving aspects of The Twilight Zone and how those stories fear factor lingered. This film was made as a submission to @plasticpollutes festive “Plastic Kills… Again!” with a goal to bring awareness to the dangers of plastic pollution through horror short films and we were fortunate enough to come in third place amongst some truly top tier films!! Thank you so much to everyone involved with the festival. I would also like to thank my incredible cast and crew who took this incredibly short film, and helped elevate it to one of the projects I’m most proud of! My gratitude is endless 🫂🫂
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Poster was designed by the endlessly talented @probably_dylan_coty and features a review of our film we were able to receive from the legendary Jennifer Tilly!!
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#shortfilm #indiefilm #filmmaker #poster #explore taken in San Diego, California by @byjulieliao

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COME MEET OUR VALE TEAM!! LA Comic-Con, Sept 28, 11am
Los Angeles Convention Center, Room 411
1201 S Figueroa St
The Vale: Enter a New Fantasy World
Welcome to a world that grows by the power of imagination. In this panel, take a deep dive with some of the creative minds behind the scenes in THE VALE — ORIGINS, a unique hybrid short film that introduces a stunning new fantasy world.
@abigailhingwen Abigail Hing Wen (writer/director, short film debut)
@johnaoshima John Aoshima (animation director, Ultraman: Rising)
@artofsoulburn Neil Blevins (animation production designer, Incredibles, Up, Brave)
@wrandonbu Brandon Wu (character designer, illustrator The Vale)
@theemmakoh_pd Emma Koh (live action production designer, XO Kitty)
Moderated by @tiffanyachang Tiffany Chang, Miss Asia US 2024 and Executive Producer of The Vale by @byjulieliao

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It’s here! The official poster for The Vale - Origins. After a devastating loss, a grieving inventor family begins to drift apart—until their young son’s fantastical drawings spark a journey toward healing, in a magical world that only they could imagine.

The Vale - Origins stars the legendary @msleasalonga ✨ and @robertpalmerwatkins and introduces Egan Xander as Bran Lee—the heart of our story and son of @janetagram (Love in Taipei) + @instageorgey (Falling for Christmas).

Poster Design by @wrandonbu.
Behind the scenes and more at @thevalemovie.
Learn more about the novel that inspired the film at @thirdstatebooks.

Want to see the film? Join the tour! by @byjulieliao

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Director Tobin Carter and our cast and crew is a dream team of talent and vision. Thank you to @tristanpravong @vanessahoward @raiyawen for bringing our characters to life 💫. #ForOneNightOnly by @byjulieliao

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