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, screened and won awards at festivals like Full Frame Documentary Film Festival, and used to support human rights activism. I’m a core 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.