Featured Projects

Killing Jar - Feature screenplay, psychological thriller

Burdened by guilt after her mother's abrupt and inexplicable death, an insect researcher decides 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

No Easy Way Down - Feature screenplay, comedy

A recently disgraced PhD student secretly takes work at a ski resort over the holidays, only for a viral discount to bring her entire Chinese-American hometown community into the same resort.

  • Official Selection: 2025 Columbia University Film Festival Faculty Selects Screenplay
  • Finalist: 2025 Almanack Screenwriters October Colony

Additional Work

Killing Jar - Drama (based on the feature screenplay), writer / director

Unable to reckon with her mother’s passing, an entomology graduate student seeks solace in her work.

  • Winner: 2025 Indeed Rising Voices Grant
  • Festival Selections: 2025 Tribeca Film Festival, 2025 HollyShorts Film Festival
  • Theatrical Screenings: (7/25/25 - 9/18/25) In select U.S. theaters before Fantastic Four, Highest 2 Lowest, Caught Stealing, and other R-Rated Films
  • Oscar Qualifying Short Films

29 Hour Famine - 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 Film Festival, 2024 Philadelphia Asian American Film Festival, 2025 Austin Asian American Film Festival

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

When a Korean immigrant mother forms an unlikely bond with a runaway, the two embark 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, 2025 Seoul International Women's 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

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.