Featured Projects

Killing Jar - Feature screenplay, psychological thriller

Burdended by guilt after her mother's abrupt and inexplicable death, an insect researcher descides to undertake her own forensic entomology investigation to uncover the truth.

  • Winner: 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Screenplay Award via Columbia University
  • Nominee: 2023 Alfred P. Sloan Student Grand Jury Prize
  • Winner: 2024 SFFILM Sloan Science in Cinema Fellowship
  • Official Selection: 2024 Columbia University Film Festival Faculty Selects Screenplay

29 Hour Famine - Short film, comedy, writer/director

When a devout teenager discovers evidence of someone eating at her church youth group’s annual fasting event, she goes to absurd lengths to catch the culprit.

  • Winner: 2023 Reel Sisters Microbudget Fellowship
  • Winner: 2023 Columbia University Chinh Chu Finishing Prize
  • Winner: 2024 Columbia University Film Festival Audience Award
  • Festival Selections:
    • 2024 Asian American International Film Festival
    • 2024 HollyShorts Film Festival
    • 2024 Boston Asian American Film Festival
    • 2024 Reel Sisters of the Diaspora Film Festival
    • 2024 San Diego Asian American Festival
    • 2024 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival

Additional Completed Screenwriting Work

Same Star Above Us - Drama, co-written with Ke Liu

A Korean immigrant mother and a white teenage sex worker form an unlikely bond, embarking on a road trip together to escape their demons.

  • Winner: 2024 NYC Women's Fund for Media, Music, and Theater
  • Winner: 2024 Columbia University Film Festival Student Selects
  • Finalist: Summer 2023 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards
  • Festival Selections: 2024 San Diego Asian American Film Festival

Freeing Eurydice - Sci-fi (in post-production), co-written with Jing Xie

A young woman grieving the death of her girlfriend attempts to find solace through an AI version of her.

  • Finalist: Spring 2023 Los Angeles International Screenplay Awards

Matched Up - Musical comedy (in post-production), co-written with Prashanth Sampathkumaran

On the eve of a family gathering, a young woman and her sister discover they have eerily similar boyfriends.

Higher Power - Comedy, Half-hour

When a fervently religious teenage girl moves in with her EDM-obsessed cousin for the summer, their personal conflicts threaten to spill out into an all-out war between their respective communities of "church Asians" and "rave Asians".

  • Official Selection: BRIC x Reel Sisters: Script to Screen: An Evening of Staged Readings
  • Finalist: 2023 CAPE New Writers Fellowship

Robbie Lee - Sci-fi / Dark Comedy, Hour, co-written with Anna Mikami

In a world where people develop supernatural ailments as they age, an immature mother who refuses to grow up tries to make amends with her exasperated daughter.

  • Quarterfinalist: 2024 Moonshot Pilot Accelerator

Historically Women - Comedy, Half-hour

An introverted trans-male student navigates life at a women's college with his three best friends, all while trying to come out of the shadow of his extroverted, boisterous sister.

Snowmaking - Comedy

A disgraced PhD student working at a ski resort over Christmas struggles to save face when a viral discount brings her entire Chinese-American hometown community into the same resort.