Same Person Productions is a directing and editing duo comprised of Pisie Hochheim and Tony Oswald. Their work mines every aspect of family, from those we choose to the ones we are born into. Their shorts have played film festivals all over the world including Seattle International Film Festival, Atlanta Film Festival, Champs-Elysee, Maryland Film Festival, and many more. They’ve also been selected as Vimeo Staff Pick and Best of the Month on Short of the Week. Their feature and series editing work has played Telluride Film Festival, among others, and has been distributed by HBO, Hulu, Netflix, and PBS.

CYCLES

A documentary short film directed by Pisie Hochheim & Tony Oswald

A single mom from rural Kentucky travels to San Diego to sell her eggs in order to support her two kids, but must grapple with the effect the process has on her body and mind.

  • Atlanta Film Festival - Official Selection 2024

  • Seattle International Film Festival - Official Selection 2024

  • AmDocs Film Festival - Official Selection 2024

  • IFFBoston - Official Selection 2024

  • Beloit International Film Festival - Official Selection 2024

  • Ouray International Film Festival - Official Selection 2024

Handheld

A fiction hybrid directed by Pisie Hocheim and Tony Oswald

A forgotten handheld camera disrupts the chaotic bedtime routine of a single mother and her young son.

  • Best of the Month, Short of the Week

  • Vimeo Staff Pick

  • Hammer to Nail Shorts Competition - Winner, Fall 2019

  • Champs-Elysee Film Festival - Official Selection 2020

  • Rhode Island International Film Festival - Official Selection 2020

  • Indie Memphis - Official Selection 2020

  • Maryland Film Festival - Official Selection 2020

  • Brooklyn Film Festival - Official Selection 2020

  • Dallas International Film Festival - Official Selection 2020

  • Sidewalk Film Festival - Official Selection 2020

  • NoBudge - Official Selection 2020

  • Wisconsin Film Festival - Official Selection 2020

  • Montana International Film Festival - Official Selection 2020

GREAT LIGHT

A Fiction Short directed by Pisie Hochheim and Tony Oswald

The matriarch of a rural Kentucky family takes issue with her daughter's boyfriend at a gathering to view the total solar eclipse, forcing her to confront her own mysterious past.

  • Jim Cummings’ Shorts to Feature Lab, 2018

  • New Hampshire Film Festival, Jury Award Live Action 2018

  • Winner, Hammer to Nail Fall 2017

  • Maryland Film Festival, Official Selection 2018

  • Wisconsin Film Festival, Golden Badger, 2018

  • IFFBoston, Official Selection 2018

  • Dallas International, Official Selection 2018

  • Bushwick Film Festival, Official Selection 2018

  • Ashland Film Festival, Official Selection 2018

  • Defy Film Festival, Official Selection 2018

SEEDS

A Fiction Short directed by Pisie Hochheim and Tony Oswald

After a visit from the ghost of her grandmother, a woman discovers a mysterious pepper plant which causes her to question whether she will follow in her mother’s footsteps or take a different path.

  • New/Next Film Festival, Official Selection 2023

  • New Hampshire Film Festival, Official Selection 2023

  • IFFBoston, Official Selection 2024

JUSTICE FOR BREONNA TAYLOR

A Documentary Short directed by Pisie Hochheim and Tony Oswald

Made in Louisville, Ky in the summer of 2020 on Breonna Taylor’s birthday.