Hannah Bang’s OSCAR®-Qualifying short MY NIGHTS GLOW YELLOW explores whether human connection can be bought

Hannah Bang explores the complexities of loneliness in her newest short MY NIGHTS GLOW YELLOW. Diving into the concept of hiring platonic companions, we follow K as she learns whether bought companionship has the ability to satisfy the need for human connection.

This film was presented at the Tribeca Film Festival, and was made as part of Indeed’s Rising Voices program – an initiative set up to discover, invest in and share stories created by BIPOC filmmakers and storytellers, and has qualified to be considered for a 2024 Academy® Award. Rising Voices was created in collaboration with Lena Waithe, Hillman Grad Productions, Ventureland and 271 Films.

We follow the daily life of K, a woman who works as a platonic companion for hire. One night, K runs into one of her clients, Michael, and accepts a car ride home. The ride blurs the boundaries between her professional and personal life, and K is pushed to face her own longing for connection.

Hannah Bang is a South Korean writer/director whose work covers a wide range of forms from film to stage. Bang received both the Jon Chu scholar scholarship and the James Bridges and Jack Larson Directing Scholarship while at USC and is also a recipient of the Entertainment Technology Center Innovative Technology Award. She is a 2022 Project Involve Fellow. Her short film SOAK premiered at SXSW in 2021 and her latest short film EXPECTANT premiered at the Bucheon Film Festival this year. She is currently developing her first feature film.

Jera Wang is a Chinese creative producer who has produced feature, episodic, commercial, and narrative short film projects. She is a 2022 Project Involve fellow and produced the short film EXPECTANT which premiered at the Bucheon Film Festival, and AFTER which played at the Shanghai Film Festival.
Trent Nakamura is an LA-based producer from Honolulu, Hawaii with a focus on AAPI and LGBTQ+ narratives. Nakamura has worked with numerous film-related non-profits including the International Documentary Association, AFI Fest, Outfest, Young Storytellers, the Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles and Visual Communications.

The short has qualified to be considered for a 2024 Academy® Award.