National Film Society is a creative production company specializing in film, television, and digital content. Founded in 2011 as a “brainy, off-beat, and ridiculously good-looking” YouTube channel, NFS emerged as part of the pioneering wave of Asian American filmmakers on the platform. Known for viral videos like Cookie Monster Spoofs Hollywood Movies, Stunt School: How to Get Hit in the Groin, and How to Be Like Chozen from Karate Kid 2 and Cobra Kai, the channel quickly gained a cult following among independent filmmakers in the 2010s and, as a founding member of PBS Digital Studios, Downton Abbey fans.

In 2014, NFS produced AWESOME ASIAN BAD GUYS, an action comedy starring Randall Park, Tamlyn Tomita, and Dante Basco. The series became the first episodic project ever selected for IFP/Gotham’s Emerging Narrative Forum and played at multiple independent and Asian American film festivals nationwide.

Over the years, NFS has grown into a trusted creative partner for Amazon, Starz, Filmmaker Magazine, and IMDb. Now led by co-founder Patrick Epino, the company continues to champion the art of film and storytelling—delivering film hugs, not film shrugs.

National Film Society is currently developing several new projects, including SOUTH CITY, a coming-of-age comedy series and finalist for the Film Independent Episodic Lab, and VETERANO, a bank heist crime drama that was invited to join the 2025 Producers Guild of America Create Lab. It also advanced to the second round of the 2024 Sundance Development Lab and was a finalist for the 2025 Gotham Week Project Market. A proof-of-concept short for VETERANO was completed this past summer and will be released in 2026.

More about VETERANO here.

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