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My Portfolio

Welcome! This is a running list of all of the projects I've made since 2023.

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2025 | Live-action

When time turns back, a young woman gets the chance to relive her favorite memories with her emotionally distant brother.

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This is the final film that I wrote and directed in Susan-Sojourna Collier's "Sight & Sound: Filmmaking" class.​​ All about the love and pain of having siblings. We actually shot parts of this short on a camcorder to recreate the home video feeling.

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Starring: Michelle Lee, Mingtai, Sebastian Hyunhu

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2025 | Live-action

A father reckons with visions of who his daughter will become.

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This is the third short film that I wrote and directed in my filmmaking class. The prompt was "Special FX Lighting." An homage to my favorite film, Everything Everywhere All At Once.

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Starring: Mark Simonoff, Abigail Friedland

2024 | Live-action

When an eepy college student falls asleep on his bed of laundry, he gets transported to a fantastical world.

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This is the second short film that I wrote and directed in my filmmaking class. The prompt was "dream." I wanted to challenge myself to create a comedic piece.

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Starring: Qi, Jules Maylott, Akwele, Tyler Shore, Jackson Whittier

2024 | Live-action

When a photographer goes to the park with her outgoing cousin, she must put down her camera in order to connect with others.

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This is the first short film that I wrote and directed in my filmmaking class. The prompt was "parallel action."

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Starring: Ariel Yaya Ku, Haoyi Wen, Mark Simonoff,

Bowen Huang

2024 | Live-action, Animation, documentary home video

Filled with a longing for his past, a young man tries to persuade his father to take him to his great grandmother's funeral.

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This is an 11-minute short film that I wrote, directed, and animated in Ronnie Kay's "Sight & Sound: Studio" class.​​

In addition to mixing languages, this film blends live-action footage, hand-drawn animation, and documentary home videos to tell its story.​ Both English and Mandarin translations are available.

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This world and these characters are part of a greater story in a feature that I'm currently writing.

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Starring: Qi, Miles Zhao, and Ariel Yaya Ku

2024 | Live-action

When a family argument breaks loose, the older brother must stabilize his home before he returns to college.

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This is a 5-minute short film that I wrote and directed in my studio class. It features English, Mandarin, and Taiwanese dialogue.

Language was an important focus in this project because I wanted to faithfully represent a 1st generation immigrant household, emphasizing how each member of the family wields the mother tongue differently.

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Starring: Qi, Jessica Wang, and Miles Zhao

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2023-24 | Animation

This is a 4-minute 2D-animated short that I animated and produced in Christen Smith's "Introduction to Animation Techniques" class at NYU.

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Through this project, I learned how to storyboard for animation, keep a strict production schedule, work effectively with my composer, and employ the techniques of frame-by-frame animation to create a narrative short.

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"The Star-Catcher" had its world premiere at the Brooklyn Film Festival on June 8, 2024!

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Music Composed and Orchestrated by Lina Breining

Performed by the Budapest Symphony Orchestra

2024 | Audio dramas

SPirited Away:
Into the Tunnel

This is a 9-minute audio drama adaptation of the Hayao Miyazaki film, Spirited Away. I directed this project in Sue Zizza's "Sound Image" class at NYU. It has since won the Tony Hawkins Award in the Adaptation category!

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Through this project, I got familiar with the art of working with voice actors. I also learned how meaning is shaped from the notes given during recording sessions to the signal processing applied during editing.

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Spirited Away: Into the Tunnel
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Chihiro - Stella Hamza | Akio - Arthur Ellis | Yūko - Vera Brumley | Haku - Sebastian Hyunhu | Yubaba - Sue Zizza

Produced by Drishana Angeleena | Master Engineer - Taylor Williams | Second Engineer - Tiger Lee

The Space Between Us

This is a 2-minute original audio drama â€‹that I produced as a proof-of-concept for a short film that I plan to direct in 2025.

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This project helped me realize the scale of my story as well as the insights about identity, home, and belonging that I want to convey in my screenplay.

The Space Between Us
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Featuring Shengdi Sun and Sheron Wang

2023 | Animation + Live-Action

Never Gone

This is a 5-minute 3D-animated short that I made for my Creative Submission on my NYU Film & TV application.

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This project introduced me to two things that I now consider integral pillars of my storytelling identity: the first was how to draw inspiration from my life when writing stories. The second was how to harmonize both the live-action and the animation mediums so that they work together in the same film.

2025 | In development

The Space Between

This will be a short film about identity, home, and belonging. Most scenes will be filmed live-action. Certain sequences that take place in memories will be animated in 2D.

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This story was inspired by my relationship with my Taiwanese heritage: something that I hope to represent candidly in this screenplay.

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