Youth Group (2015)
Director/Cinematographer/Editor
Set in the “ethnoburbs” of Los Angeles County, Youth Group explores the ways in which young members, most raised by immigrant Buddhist parents, carve out a separate space for themselves in the temple as they struggle to understand the rituals and beliefs of their parents’ Buddhism.
*Society for Visual Anthropology Film & Media Festival, 2016
*Intimate Lens Festival of Visual Ethnography, 2016
*International Film Festival for Spirituality, Religion, and Visionary, 2016
*Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival, 2017
Distributed by RAI (Royal Anthropological Institute) Film
Right to Stay (2017)
Director/Cinematographer/Editor
When their landlords threaten eviction using unlawful tactics, a group of senior tenants in LA’s historic Lincoln Heights neighborhood band together to fight back.
Created for Chinatown Community for Equitable Development (CCED)
Idiopathic Hypersomnia Patient Journey (2019)
Ethnographer/Cinematographer
An ethnographic video study exploring the day-to-day experiences of patients living with idiopathic hypersomnia, a rare sleep disorder.
Created for the Ipsos Ethnography Center of Excellence and Jazz Pharmaceuticals
Telehealth: ‘Webside’ Manner (2020)
Ethnographer/Cinematographer/Editor
Part of a series of documentary shorts on the value of telehealth for patients and health care providers.
Created for the Ipsos Ethnography Center of Excellence and HP
America in Flux (2020)
Editor
Following 25 households across 5 US states through participant-filmed videos, America in Flux is a longitudinal digital ethnography project that explores American life during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Created for the Ipsos Ethnography Center of Excellence
Seniors Fight Back (2023)
Cinematographer/Editor
An introduction to Seniors Fight Back, a non-profit organization offering self-defense classes to the community, in response to the surge in attacks targeting AAPI seniors.
Created for Seniors Fight Back