DIRECTING CREDITS

ÉMIGRÉS
Documentary Short (2022)
ÉMIGRÉS offers a brief glimpse into how an immigrant family remains comfortably estranged and elusive of its history. The “why” might have gotten lost along the way.

A LAND OF LONG SHADOWS
Hybrid Feature in development
An aspiring journalist from working-class Belfast investigates epidemic suicide rates amongst her millennial peers. When it hits close to home, she exposes why the violence still persists in 2010s Northern Ireland, but is turning inwards.

FIRST DANCE
Fiction Short (2013)
A resettled North Korean refugee’s encounters with the arts overthrow her conceptions of what it means for humans to feel, to express, and to compose one’s own identity.

DAILY BREAD
Fiction Short (2015)
Near the conflict-ridden border at midnight, two Israeli boys find themselves in a scuffle with a Palestinian boy on his shortcut home..

PRODUCING CREDITS

DAILY BREAD (producer) — UCLA Thesis Film (2015)
CALIFORNIA’S FORGOTTEN CHILDREN (line producer) — Documentary Feature (2017)
SUSIE SUNSHINE (line producer) — Short (2016)
CONFUCIAN DREAM (producer) — Documentary Feature (2019)
OUR TIME MACHINE (associate producer) — Documentary Feature (2019)
AFTER THE RAIN (co-producer) — Documentary Feature (2021)
HIDDEN LETTERS (co-producer) — Documentary Feature (2022)

AWARDS

DAILY BREAD
First Prize, Hearts, Minds, Souls Award – Rhode Island International Film Festival
Best Student Film – Peace on Earth Film Festival

CONFUCIAN DREAM
Special Jury Prize, Documentary Competition – Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
Best Feature Length Documentary Award – Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival
Best Feature Documentary – China Academy Awards of Documentary Film
Winner, “All in the Family” Category – Doc Edge
Winner, Documentary Competition – Dublin International Film Festival

OUR TIME MACHINE
Best Cinematography in a Documentary Feature – Tribeca Film Festival
Winner, Documentary Competition – CAAMFest
Grand Jury Award, International Documentary Feature – LA Asian Pacific Film Festival
Winner, Best International Director; Winner, “All in the Family” Category – Doc Edge
Grand Prix for Best Documentary Film – Minsk International Film Festival Listapad
Best Editing – China Academy Awards of Documentary Film

AFTER THE RAIN
Special Jury Mention – Doc NYC