01 SELECTED WORK

Narrative Shorts

Independent films exploring family, belonging and the lives we imagine for ourselves.

A father reaches toward a sunlit curtain in Crystal Mountain.

NARRATIVE SHORT · 2025

Crystal Mountain

Writer / Director

A Chinese immigrant father places his hopes for his daughter’s future in a stone said to change one’s luck.

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Hands fold gold paper in blue and amber light in Nights and Days in America.

NARRATIVE SHORT · 2021

Nights and Days in America

Writer / Director

After her grandfather’s death, a Chinese teenager at a New York boarding school navigates grief far from home.

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A woman in a softly lit interior in Kamudakara.

NARRATIVE SHORT · 2020

Kamudakara

Writer / Director

A Japanese-American woman caring for her aging father struggles between family obligation and her desire for a life of her own.

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A black-and-white 16mm frame from Welcome to the Jungle.

NARRATIVE SHORT · 2019 · 16MM

Welcome to the Jungle

Writer / Director

A woman tries to bypass a border queue, confronting the surreal rules that stand between her and the other side.

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