Community Documentary Filmmaking Reel
Film and Production
Along with creative collaborator and good friend Stephan Xie, this reel captures our work from 2020-2021. Centered largely around narratives in the Bay Area Asian-American community, major events include short film Sojourn 入土为安, community documenting for The Carlin 13, community documenting for the San Jose Apology Resolution, and several San Francisco community festivals.
SOJOURN 入土为安
Film and Production
入土为安 Sojourn is a short documentary on fading Chinese American customs for honoring the dead and the impermanence of the
cemeteries that they rest in. Contemplating the importance of remembrance, the film follows the journey of Chinese American elders to
cemeteries for their annual Qingming visit and back into their San Francisco Chinatown huiguan, or community organizations. There they
recount an unsettling history, and an even more uncertain future for those who pass away. Trying to find permanence within liminality, the
elders emphasize ancestral honoring, but more fundamentally, remembering to remember.