Coyote

(Short film in Cinema-19 omnibus, Co-director with William Brown, 2020)

CINEMA-19
Filmmakers Respond to COVID-19

Commissioned by Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler

Presented in Association with Anthology Film Archives, Northwest Film Forum, Zeitgeist Theatre & Lounge

Filmmakers In Order of Appearance: Courtney Stephens, Kalpana Subramanian, Usama Alshaibi, Scott Cummings, Lori Felker, Matt McCormick, Eman Akram Nader & Alex Megaro, Christin Turner, Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa, Kelly Gallagher, Sarah Ema Friedland, William Brown & Mila Zuo, Amir George, Adam Sekuler

Filmmaker magazine review: “In the brisk, 43-minute anthology film, Cinema-19, a group of experimental filmmakers respond to the coronavirus pandemic with diverse and imaginative results. The films are all 190 seconds long and, say the curator/organizers, filmmakers Usama Alshaibi and Adam Sekuler, ‘do not attempt to summarize the pandemic, but instead focus on the personal, the political, the sensual, the distant, the abstract, and the absurd.'”

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KIN

(Experimental narrative short, Writer/Director/Co-producer, 2021)

Kin was the recipient of the 2019 Oregon Media Arts Fellowship, supported by the Northwest Film Center (Portland, OR) and Oregon Arts Commission.

Film festivals: Portland International Film Festival (2021); Brooklyn Film Festival (2021)

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Détourning Asia / America with Valerie Soe

Visual essay (Director, 2019) published in Feminist Media Histories journal 5:4 (2019): 56-58, special issue, “Activism,” ed. by Angela J. Aguayo and Alexandra Juhasz. 

Détourning Asia/America with Valerie Soe premiered at CAAMfest 2019, and has screened at San Diego Asian Film Festival 2019, Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2019, and Local Sightings Film Festival 2020.

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