Personal Portfolio

A collection of a few projects undertaken for the love of it.

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Home is a Hotel

Within the walls of their 80-square-foot SRO hotel rooms, five diverse San Francisco residents strive against cyclical forces and a housing crisis in their search for a place to call home.

 

A feature documentary in production.  Coming 2023

Huan Di and her daughter Jessica live in an 8ft x 10ft room with no kitchen or bathroom. Recent immigrants from China, they navigate a new language and culture while living in Single Room Occupancy Hotels, a vital but fast disappearing housing option for San Francisco's working class.

Home is a Hotel ( Short )

Huan Di and her daughter Jessica live in an 8ft x 10ft room with no kitchen or bathroom. Recent immigrants from China, they navigate a new language and culture while living in Single Room Occupancy Hotels, a vital but fast disappearing housing option for San Francisco's working class.

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The Pilgrimage

When his hippie dad, Larry, shows up and announces he is walking across the country for world peace, Coben's carefully manicured life is thrown out of whack.

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Forgetting

The story of a boy with a peculiar brain condition and the girl who loves him.

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A Dark Bedroom

The fourth in a series of quasi-experimental short films entitled "WISPERS." Each piece provides "the wisp of a narrative" with the intention of leaving the rest of the story open to interpretation.

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The Night On The Porch

 An unexpected reunion at a party leaves a couple struggling with all the things they couldn't say.

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Jus Soli

Set in a near future where the US government has passed a number of restrictive laws targeting immigrants, including banning non-citizens from owning real estate in the country. Lisa is suddenly called in to speak to the authorities regarding "some problems with her documentation.” but soon realizes that what is about to happen is more terrible than she could have ever imagined.

         Starring - Lynn Chen & CircusSzalewski

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Be My Baby

When Angela returns from the Philippines to help care for her younger sister she is forced to deal with a past she has thought she escaped.