“As filmmakers, we want to tell stories that matter regardless of the genre we are working in. We are drawn to stories that have something to say about the collective human experience, or that speak of the perseverance of the human spirit. We are interested in creating characters with real flaws, charm, and wit, who refuse to fit into their archetypal molds, whose survival we can root for. As artists from an ethnic community that is redefining itself through new mediums of storytelling, our goal is to transcend boundaries, to make familiar the unfamiliar, extraordinary the ordinary. We always strive to reveal some universal experience or truth in our work, regardless of how alien the world or situation we are presenting might be to the audience—because in the end, we are all the same.”

— The Vang Brothers