FILMOGRAPHY
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Water and Wine (working title)
producer/director/cinematographer/editor [documentary - in production] Loud Love producer/director/cinematographer/editor [feature documentary - 2024] In New York, In New York editor [feature documentary - completed] The Ugly Model creative producer/additional cinematographer [feature documentary - 2019] One Child Nation post-production assistant [feature documentary - 2019] |
People’s Republic of Desire
post-production assistant [feature documentary - 2018] The Naked Truth: China Queer editor [TV documentary - 2017] Complicit additional editor/associate producer [feature documentary - 2017] The Ability Exchange producer/director/cinematographer/editor [feature documentary - 2016] 9-Man associate producer [feature documentary - 2015] |
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LOUD LOVE
[director/producer/cinematographer/editor - feature documentary, 2024] Following a seven-year long surrogacy process, gay deaf couple Alan and Brian finally brought their hearing twin babies home to New York from India. However, their journey through fatherhood meets a new challenge when the growingly rambunctious kids start screaming "you don't understand me" at them. LOUD LOVE is their story, a documentary about parenting, growth and its occasional hurdles. World Premiere: ReelAbilities Film Festival • New York, NY • April 7, 2024 TRAILER |
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THE ABILITY EXCHANGE
[director/producer/cinematographer/editor - feature documentary, 2016] THE ABILITY EXCHANGE is a documentary film about an innovative Disability Studies course at NYU Polytech where engineering students and self-advocates with cerebral palsy team up to make movies. This observational film illustrates the trajectory of personal growth and bonding that these first time filmmakers experience, during a journey of which the line between ability and disability gets blurred, definitions of “normalcy” and “inspiration” challenged. THE ABILITY EXCHANGE invites the viewer to reflect on what it takes to understand and appreciate a person, a community, a culture, and how this exchange of abilities and perspectives empowers lives. Acclaimed as “a one-man band's empathy engine” by Indiewire, this award-winning film was screened at many film festivals (including the 2016 Bushwick Film Festival and Kansas International Film Festival) and universities throughout the U.S.. TRAILER/PURCHASE |
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THE UGLY MODEL
[creative producer/additional cinematographer - feature documentary, 2019] From the outside, Philly based Korean American adoptee and fitness model Kevin Tae-jin Kreider seems to have it all: Looks, Muscles, Chutzpah, Confidence and Charisma. He has a popular Instagram and vlog and has modeled around the world for the likes of Men’s Health, Gillette and Abercrombie & Fitch. However, underneath those layers of muscle fibers, lies a loneliness and insecurity that deeply affects the psyche of a Korean adoptee growing up as an Asian male in America. The film premiered at the 2019 Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the 42nd Asian American International Film Festival in New York. TRAILER/PURCHASE |
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COMPLICIT
[additional editor/associate producer - feature documentary, 2017] Shot below the radar, Complicit follows the journey of Chinese factory migrant worker-turned-activist Yi Yeting, who takes his fight against the global electronic industry from his hospital bed to the international stage. With incredible access, the film explores global brands’ social responsibly and consumers’ role, while offering an in-depth look into love, family, Chinese culture, and the people sacrificing everything to make a difference. Its original trailer released on YouTube has received over 1.2 million views and helped persuade Apple to change its policy on the use of benzene. The film premiered at the 2017 Geneva International Film Festival and Forum on Human Rights and was presented at Film Society of Lincoln Center and IFC Center in New York as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. TRAILER |
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THE NAKED TRUTH: CHINA QUEER
[editor - TV documentary, 2017] For China's LGBTQ, the surveillance, intimidation, and even imprisonment of advocates is often coupled with stigmatization at home in a country whose national pride rests on 4,000 years of tradition. In a new one-hour documentary, FUSION TV’s award-winning investigative team examines what it’s like to be gay in China and the challenges LGBTQ activists face. The film was nominated for "Outstanding TV Journalism" in 2018 by GLAAD Media Awards. TRAILER |
