Winston's Doubt

Director, Editor & Camera Operator: Chang Liu (Leo) 

Camera Assistant: Bayley Smallwood 

Dialogue Copywriters: Alexandra Barbier, Madeline Anderson, Chang Liu (Leo)

Voiceover: Madeline Anderson 

Cast: Winston Sandberg, Benjamin Sandberg, Bayley Smallwood, Nicholas Daulton, Alexandra Barbier, Brianna Lopez, Chang Liu (Leo) 

Music by Raymond Wong (Lane Crawford, Bull’s Eye, Under the Tree) 

Shooting Location: Alice Sheets Marriott Center for Dance, Salt Lake City, US 

Produced in 2017  

Concept: 

Winston’s Doubt is a surreal, tender, and philosophical journey told through the eyes of a British pug. Shot entirely from the dog’s perspective, this experimental film transforms the mundane into the uncanny as Winston—the pug—questions the nature of love, presence, and belonging among his human companions. Told from Winston’s point of view, the film offers a charming mix of innocence, curiosity, and dry humor.  

Through a series of internal monologues and elliptical dialogues, Winston’s gentle gaze becomes a cinematic device to interrogate how we see, how we are seen, and how love is felt across species, silences, and absurdities. As he roams the corridors of a dance center, encountering strange rituals of human movement and expression, Winston’s doubt becomes a metaphor for our own uncertainties—about affection, connection, and truth in a world full of conflicting gestures.  

Blurring the line between pet and poet, the film asks: what does the world look like when you’re always on the sidelines, quietly watching? Sometimes, the softest questions come from the smallest voices.