As a mixed-race Chinese-American independent documentary editor, director, and story consultant, I’m drawn to the intersections of identity, displacement, grief, resilience, personal history and culture.

My work has appeared in outlets including The New York Times, The Guardian, and BBC, and has been screened and awarded at festivals such as Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, Slamdance Group’s The Indies, and the One World Media Awards. It has also supported human rights activism. I’m a collective member of msj—an arts residency and artist refuge for experimentation.

I believe in an ethics of care in filmmaking. While telling one’s story can be deeply healing, it can also be difficult, triggering, and complex. I believe we who hold and transmit these stories must also hold deep awareness of how storytelling methods have been, and continue to be, re-traumatizing and exploitative for some communities. The projects I work on are true collaborations with participants, co-created with person-specific dignity.

I’m also a trained death doula and conflict facilitator. If you’re looking instead for my facilitation work, click here.