Title 8 Productions, LLC represents the film and media works of filmmaker/editor Tim Tsai.

Tim’s feature debut Seadrift chronicles the racial hostilities that erupted during the early days of Vietnamese refugee arrival on the Texas gulf coast. The award-winning film premiered at Slamdance 2019 and was broadcast on PBS. Previously, he produced and directed the Austin PBS short documentary series Austin Revealed: Pioneers from the East, which profiles some of the earliest Chinese American families to settle in Central Texas. His editorial work include Yakona (SXSW ’14 Audience Award), a hybrid “pure cinema” film about the San Marcos river, and Powerlands (AmDocs ’22 Best U.S. Feature), a film about global indigenous resistance against resource extraction. He holds an MFA in film and video production from the University of Texas at Austin, is the former executive director of the Austin Asian American Film Festival, and is a Firelight Media Documentary Labs alum.

He is currently based in the Central Valley in California.