Work-in-Progress

Queens Ballroom

(present, 90 min) | Co-director, Producer

In a New York ballroom, Asian American immigrants are transported through dance, revisiting worlds they left behind and lives created anew.

Supported by

New York State Council on the Arts, ITVS, Firelight Media, IDFA Forum, InMaat Foundation

EURODOC - International Lab for Creative Documentary Production

Released

Dear Mother, I Meant to Write about Death

(2022, 63 min) | Director, Editor

It’s never easy to talk about mortality with our loved ones.

It’s even harder between a physician mother who excels at hiding her emotions under rationality and a daughter who spent her childhood solving math problems next to the morgue. They avoid conversation about mortality and related feelings at all costs - until the mother becomes a cancer patient and the daughter becomes her caregiver.

Watch the full film here on Vimeo.

Festival Highlight and Awards

  • Busan International Film Festival 2022 | Documentary Competition Special Mention

  • International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2022 | Nominated for the Best First Feature Award

  • 46th Asian American International Film Festival 2023 | Documentary Feature Presentation

Supported by

  • IDFA Bertha Fund | IDFA Forum 2017

  • Chicken and Egg Films

  • SFFILM

  • Asian Cinema Fund

Made in Ethiopia

(2024, 91 min) | Editor

Made in Ethiopia examines China’s increasing impact on Africa through the story of charismatic businesswoman Motto, who is tasked with expanding the biggest Chinese industrial zone in Ethiopia.

Festival Highlight and Awards

  • Tribeca Film Festival 2024 | Documentary Feature Competition Special Jury Mention

  • Sheffield International Documentary Festival 2024 | Nominated for the Grand Jury Award for International First Feature Competition

  • Warsaw International Film Festival 2024 | Nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Award

In the Same Breath

Festival Highlight and Awards

  • Peabody Awards 2022 | Winner

  • Film Independent Spirit Awards 2022 | Nominee

  • IDA Award 2022 | Nominee

  • PGA Awards 2022 | Nominee

(2021, 95 min) | Assistant Editor

IN THE SAME BREATH recounts the experiences of people on the ground in the earliest days of the novel coronavirus and the way two countries dealt with its initial spread, from the first days of the outbreak in Wuhan to its rampage across the United States.