MY
FATHER'S HOUSE
Short, Drama, In Post Production
After a decade away, twenty-something Jo returns to his childhood home to grieve his father, and their tenuous relationship.
Filmed in my childhood home.
han (for iris chang)
Experimental, Short Film,
Historical Fiction, Documentary
Poetry
a fusion of histories & lineages in the wake of the second Sino-Japanese war.
part one is told from the perspective of a victim of wartime atrocities;
part two details her bastard daughter's movement through life in America, discovering that her father isn't her biological father;
part three sees the granddaughter reckoning with the things (material & spiritual) her mother & grandmother did & didn't leave for her.
words are my own, footage is mostly public domain but for the last sequence.
dedicated to the memory of those lost to war (here, the Second Sino-Japanese War), & those lost to & in the name of history (here, to Iris, one of its champsions)
more about the Comfort Women: https://www.awf.or.jp/e1/facts-12.html
more about the Rape of Nanking:
https://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/genocide/nanking.htm
NEWS FOR HOME // "家书"
Short, Drama, Documentary
In Assoc. w/ AAPISTRONGCA;
CalAsian Chamber of Commerce
Writer & Director
A phone rings, and, via voicemail, the news of a hate crime against a family member is relayed from mother to children. They’ll have to finish cooking by themselves.
Made in conversation with the wave of Asian hate crimes that spread during and after the COVID-19 epidemic.
UNCROSSING THE SEA //
无归海路
Writer, Director, DoP, Editor
Strarring Bloom Li (Chang Can Dunk)
XAN (20s) flies back to New York after his mothers recent 'departure', where he spends a night in her old apartment, in her absence.
Made in my Aunt's apartment, cinema verité, crew of one, working with real memories of my grandmother.
COMFORT
Short, Family Drama, Based on a True Story
Premiered at Tribeca Film Festival 2021
Co-Writer & Script Supervisor
After an ICE raid, a Nigerian immigrant father must tell his son why his mother is not coming home.
WHITE GOLD
Pilot, Screenplay, Limited Series,
Heist-Western, Historical Fiction
To save their safe haven, a band of heroes from a Chinese mining town,
along with a feared Chinese gunslinger, plan a train heist.
Semifinalist, ScreenCraft TV Pilot Script Competition 2022
Semifinalist, ScreenCraft True Story & Public Domain Competition 2022
breakdown
Experimental, Short Film
An exploration of the car as a transient space of escape, reflection, memory, and a reflector/creator of one’s navigation of the world.
