Arroyo Films is a Los Angeles-based production company producing intimate, character-driven films that move between cultures and languages. Founded by writer-director Ann Lu, the company is currently in production on ODE, a bilingual English/Mandarin feature film starring Xu Qing, produced in association with Heart Berry Pictures. Arroyo is also in development on an original science-fiction feature SUPERMENTAL.
After her career collapses, Michelin-starred pastry chef Yun loses her sense of smell and taste. She flees to Los Angeles for a healing retreat and befriends a mysterious boy. He leads her into the desert in search of his mother. The strangers they meet along the way mirror Yun's life, stirring reflection. At journey's end, Yun discovers the truth about the boy and its meaning.
In 2045, a lonely caregiver and a disgraced physicist discover that the stranger shadowing her has come to spare her a choice she hasn't yet made — and that the world survives only if she makes it.
A young journalist befriends a businessman and learns that after his dream of becoming a Ping-Pong player was cut short, he escaped to Hong Kong in search of a better life. Inspired by his story, the journalist decides to pursue her dreams.
A woman trapped in a quietly eroding marriage begins an affair with a man who has no traceable past. Together they break into the empty houses of strangers, borrowing other people's lives for the length of an afternoon — a game that becomes an addiction, then a way of outrunning themselves. But every house and every escape leads back to a door marked reality.
Two childhood friends leave rural America for Los Angeles, chasing their silver screen dreams in Hollywood. But the city of angels puts their ambition and friendship to their truest test.
Born in Chengdu, Sichuan, Ann Lu earned her film degree in the United States. She is a two-time nominee for the “NBC Female Forward” directing honor.
Her feature debut Dreamers earned LA Weekly’s “Pick of the Week,” which hailed “a remarkable new talent in writer-director Ann Lu.” Dreamers was an official selection of eight international film festivals, including the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and won Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Audience Choice Award.
Lu went on to write and direct Erosion, a provocative drama that NPR called “hauntingly powerful.” Her Mandarin-language feature 20:16, starring Damian Lau, was hailed by Chinese media as “one of the best domestic films of the year.”
As a screenwriter, Lu has penned commercial projects for studios including Alibaba, Enlight Media, and China Film Group — among them the sci-fi epic Iron Vanguard, the U.S.–China historical series The Iron Road, and a theatrical feature adapted from Liu Cixin’s The Supernova Era.
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Born in Oslo, Norway, Wolf studied at the American Film Institute, earning an MFA in Cinematography. A member of the Norwegian Society of Cinematographers, he works regularly between Oslo and Los Angeles.
His notable credits include Half-Life, a Sundance Film Festival selection and winner of the Jury Prize at New York’s GenArt Film Festival; GASP, shot on location in Beijing and co-starring acclaimed Chinese actor Ge You alongside John Savage; and Entry Level, a comedy starring D.B. Sweeney and Missy Pyle.
Wolf collaborated with Oscar-nominated director Daniel Raim on the Turner Classic Movies original documentary Image Makers, as well as Ozu Diaries, a 2025 Venice Film Festival selection.
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Matt Compton has worked as a Producer & Production Manager in Film and Television for over 20 years. His long-form credits include the feature films Seventh Moon and Midnight Son, along with the television specials The Burkittsville 7 (Showtime), The B.P.R.D. Declassified (Sony TV/FX), and Cast Party: Andi Mack (Disney Channel). His short-form work spans Disney Channel, Disney XD, and Animal Planet.
Matt also created the budgeting application TrueBudget, used to budget hundreds of productions before its acquisition by Revolution Entertainment Services in 2021.
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