Robin Takao D’Oench is a writer, director, producer from New York City. He holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. His short film Tadaima won Best Short at the 2015 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival and the 2016 Social Justice Film Festival. The film was acquired and distributed by Xfinity TV and Seed & Spark and is included in the Densho Resource Guide. His latest work Here Comes Frieda was an Official Selection at the 2020 HollyShorts and Boston Science Fiction Film Festival and was acquired and distributed by Gunpowder & Sky. He lives in Los Angeles.