"Echo" premieres at DocNYC

"Echo" wins the Audience Award at the Aspens Shortfest

Daniel Kish has taught thousands of students worldwide an essential skill: to see with sound. A lifelong advocate for the blind, Kish is a pioneer in echolocation, the ability to perceive one’s surroundings by making clicking noises or tapping a cane. As sound waves bump onto nearby walls and objects, the noises they reflect create a sort of audible map. “If I click at a surface,” he says in a new short documentary, “it answers back.”

Aleph Films short documentary, "Echo", has its world premiere at Santa Barbara Film Festival

Aleph Film short Doc, “Echo”, has its world premiere at Santa Barbara Film Fest

Aleph Films short film, "Reframe" opens 2023 Nantucket Film Festival

Tony Cox Screenplay Competition: Aleph Feature, “The Rift” wins!

San Francisco-based Iranian American singer-songwriter Susan Darvishi dropped a new music video for “Fingers Crossed”.

The song was released last September from her upcoming debut album “14th and 4th”.

The video was directed by Jeffrey Dinghua Lei.

Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay competition: Aleph Films Feature, “Feedback”, finalist screenplay

Aleph Films Feature, The Overture, second rounds at Austin Film Festival Screenplay competition

"A Taste of Sky,” director Michael Lei’s inspiring documentary, screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, chronicles the impact gastronomy has on two underprivileged Bolivians, Kenzo and Maria Claudia, in La Paz. They work at Gustu, a passion project restaurant and cooking school helmed by Claus Meyer, co-founder of Noma.

(CBS Local)-- Claus Meyer and Michael Lei come from two different worlds, but together they teamed up to for a groundbreaking project.

EXCLUSIVE: A new teaser (watch it below) for A Taste of Sky, a feature documentary about an unusual food venture by NOMA restauranteur Claus Meyer, is whetting appetites ahead of its U.S. premiere at this month’s Tribeca Film Festival...