2023 Submissions
Season Recap 2022
I shot, edited, and color-graded it to make this piece really something special. The song gives it an emotional spin and makes it a unique sports reel. I also made sure it had a storytelling factor to it.
Sea, Swallow Me
This was a group project. We went to Fisherman's Wharf, Hyde Street Pier, and paid $15 dollars to tour ancient boats. We filmed there. We wanted to tell a ghost story of sorts. One that would reference the seafaring history of San Francisco, the globalism of another, more time-consuming era.
Natural Internet
My film is titled, "Natural Internet." I created, produced and am the sole actor in this film. The setting is in Marinwood, my neighborhood, located in the nature portion of my neighborhood that contains a creek and many beautiful trees.
Time of Your Life
This short montage film was my first ever created film. I wanted to invoke this feeling of excitement and energy within the viewers. I tried to do this through my use of music and selection of different exciting clips.
Rumah Ke Rumah
My short film is a passion type of film. Where it's about when I arrived here in San Francisco from Jakarta, Indonesia where I was raised for 10 years. This idea of me and my brother moving back to San Francisco (because I was born in SF), was already discussed since I was in the 6th grade.
Dusk Till Dawn
This piece is short film that aims to capture the beauty, life, complexity, and vibrancy of nature in simple photograph-like shots.
Search for Compassion
My artwork deals with my loneliness at a new high school during my first semester there. Even though I attend school on a tele-presence robot, people really don't notice me at all. At the end I ask my fellow students to show compassion to me and other kids like me.
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As a documentary filmmaker, there is a sense of freedom in knowing that what classifies a film as a documentary is so subjective.
Lost and Found
My artwork was to depict the grief, loss, and loneliness of losing a loved one. I tried to capture the subjects most vulnerable moments as best as I could.
Blossom in the Crescent Moon
This work aims to bring the audience through my journey from the feeling of panic and uncertainty stepping into high school to ultimately forgiving and accepting myself for being not okay when everyone else around me seemed so figured out.
A Detective’s Labyrinth
This particular short film was the first part of a two-part episodic I made for my school's news platform and I wanted to depict the perpetual cyberbullying in our school's past. I could have made this "preachy" almost like singing to the choir, but that would be derivative and not my style.
Antibiotic Resistance
Antibiotic is a very harmful problem in America that not many people know about. It is very important that people are aware of what antibiotic resistance is and how they can prevent and stop the spread of it.
Deforestation
This piece was filmed in Cuenca, Ecuador while doing reforestation work after a huge hurricane wiped out large parts of forest.
I Can’t Get Up
I've battled with Depression for most of my life. It's a heavy feeling that I can never describe. When I get into these pits it's hard to climb out of them. I made a film describing what some of my deepest pits feel like.