Little Taoist Films

Welcome to the online home of Little Taoist Films, an indie film production and entertainment company founded in 2004 by Moses Ma. We’re a privately held company based in San Francisco, California. Our vision is to create Taoist films. By Taoist, we mean simple and beautiful works of art that are spare yet rich and sensual, undogmatic yet devout and spiritual, hopeful but perhaps a bit weary of the common world.

Remember the words of Lao Tzu in the Tao Te Ching:

Thirty spokes are joined together in a wheel,
but it is the empty hole at its center
that makes the wagon move. 

We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness inside
that makes the vessel useful. 

We hammer wood for a house,
but it is the emptiness inside
that makes it livable.

The Taoists of old would most definitely have enjoyed the invention of cinema, which fashions reality out of the emptiness of light. Yes, Lao Tzu would have enjoyed painting with light.

We are inventing a new school of "transformative filmmaking" - where the act of filmmaking becomes a deeply spiritual exercise. This means we work to transcend our egos on the set. This means that we strive to remain connected to our breath. This means that our PAs are production angels, who "hold space" for our production to manifest. This means that we - while we work - remain aware, come from the heart, and in a state of grace. This means that we pray like crazy that what we're about to create is the most beautiful thing we've ever done... one and all of us, together.

So if this idea of Taoist filmmaking calls to you, come join us in our travels.