Films
Brighter Days
(15:48 min)
2023
While the world locks down due to Covid-19 and then explodes in uprisings during the year 2020, a daughter ignores phone calls regarding the conservatorship of her mother and updates from the locked facility where she is confined.
San Diego Asian Film Festival, 2023
After/Life
Music by Stefan Christoff
(14:38 min)
2017
In an Arizona desert, a dystopic collective nightmare unfolds where US domestic and foreign policies collide.
World Premiere: Berlin International Film Festival, 2018
Border Studies Program, Earlham College
San Francisco State University
California College of the Arts
Dortmund | Cologne International Women’s Film Festival
Champs-Élysées Film Festival
Critical Ethnic Studies Conference, University of British Columbia
Palm Springs International ShortFest, Special Mention for Best Documentary Short
Lago Film Fest
Guanajuato International Film Festival
DokuFest XVII
MoliseCinema Film Festival
MakeDOX
Environmental Film Festival Australia
Nature and Cinema Exhibition, ForadCamp
Jean Rouch International Film Festival
Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival
San Diego Asian Film Festival
Berlinale Spotlight, India
Film Fest Sundsvall
Patois Film Festival
(Almost) Freedom
(8:03 min)
2016
When prison comes home: A look into the domestic lives of four GPS-enabled electronic ankle monitors. Watch the film here.
Vimeo Staff Pick, 2018
DOC NYC, 2017
Dublin Doc Fest, 2017
New Orleans Film Festival, 2017
San Francisco DocFest, 2017
San Diego Asian Film Festival, 2016
Desplazada
Music by Stefan Christoff
(14:15 min)
2018
A study of green gentrification along one of Boston’s most polluted waterways. This film is part of an anti-displacement project and collaboration between community groups and the MIT Community Innovators Lab. Watch the film here.
Between Seasons
Co-directed with Sam Ellison
(11:09 min)
2016
In Salinas, California, former and current farm workers grapple with the legacy of decades of activism. Watch the film here.
Watsonville Film Festival, 2017
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, 2017
37° North
(3:40 min)
2015
A California farmer collects and harvests rare Korean heirloom seeds to connect with the country of her birth. Watch the film here.
Watsonville Film Festival, 2017
ALICE Fest, 2017
Cinema Outsider, 2016
Hello From the Other Side
(2:05 min)
2017
A star is born.