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. Watch the film here.

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. Watch the trailer here.

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. 

#WeJoinTheFrontline

(1:31 min)

2020

 

Commissioned by #WeJoinTheFrontline in November 2020.