writer + director
demo reel
2021
director demo reel of
short films + web series.
included:
Norah & Poppy
Midnight Toker
Syd
Here We Wait
Young Badlands
Finder
Galabanting
2023 | feature film - in development
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A Filipina teenage girl tries to navigate the challenging waters of growing up, her sexual identity, and coming to a place of self-acceptance.
Norah & Poppy
2019 | short film
Ontario Arts Council:
Emerging Filmmaker Grant
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2019:
- Premiere @ Toronto's Reel Asian Film Festival
- Art Gallery of Hamilton Film Festival
- The Lift-Off Sessions
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2020:
- Toronto Lift-Off Film Festival
- New York Lift-Off Film Festival
- Hollywood North Film Awards WINNER: Best Production Design
- Great Northern International Film Festival
- Montreal International Film Festival
- Canada Shorts Film Fest WINNER: Award of Excellence
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2021:
- CBC Short Film Face-Off
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Norah and Poppy move in with their emotionally distant Lolo after the death of their mother. When Poppy becomes hospitalized and needs surgery, Norah must decide what she's willing to sacrifice to bring her remaining family together.
While he begins to enjoy his post-work joint, this stoner finds himself trapped in his car battling aliens, dinosaurs, and demonic children from some of Hollywood's greatest classics.
Midnight Toker
2018 | short film
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- My RØDE Reel Film Festival
WINNER: Judge's Film
NOMINEE: Best Cinematography, Best Acting, Best Production Design, Best BTS Educational
- Cefalù Film Festival
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2019:
- The Lift-Off Sessions
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Here We Wait
2017 | web series (21 episodes)
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2017:
- Seoul Web Fest NOMINEE: Best Director
- TO Web Fest
- Miami Web Fest
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2018:
- New Jersey Web Fest NOMINEE: Best Director
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A web series centred around the waitstaff of "Here" - a supernatural restaurant where souls in limbo appear before their final resting place. When this usually mundane world begins to fall apart, the staff must figure out how to escape before it's too late.
Syd
2016 | short film
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2016:
- My RØDE Reel Film Festival NOMINEE: Best Drama
- Grand IndieWise Convention
- Hamilton Film Festival
- Burnaby Film Forum SEMI-FINALIST
Syd struggles to understand why his mother disappeared 18 years ago, but soon realizes what he's been searching for all along.
Young Badlands
2014 | web series (7 episodes)
Six youths escape a dangerous life in the city to live nomadically in an abandoned house outside city limits. When a stranger attacks one of them in their own home, the rest must choose between their freedom, and the life of one of their own.
Finder
2013 | short film
One year after her sister's abduction, Riley uses her toy viewfinder to teleport her to worlds unknown in the hopes to bring her home.