(Dark Sci-Fi Family Drama, AAPI) - When an elderly man finds his body washed up on the shore of his son's seaside resort suspended in time — he sets off to convince his fellow residents to help him escape — and in turn, revoke their immortality.
2024 UCLA Showcase Hour-Long Pilot Winner
Screenplays
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Selected Writing Samples
(Dark Sci-Fi Drama, AAPI) - When a struggling Chinese American father is hired to convince a rogue AI modeled after a woman he once loved to return to their maker, he becomes trapped in a surreal world of his own alternate selves—and must confront whether real connection can survive in a future built to replace it.
2025 Stowe Writer’s Retreat Fellow
(Dark Sci-Fi Comedy-Thriller, AAPI) - When the high-achieving son of poor Cantonese immigrants is invited to the secluded home of the self-proclaimed richest family in the world — he soon discovers they are not only wealthy but dangerous and wicked beyond measure — to survive he must reconcile his own material desires with his sense of justice and self preservation. Based on the novella The Diamond as Big as the Ritz by F. Scott Fitzgerald.
2024 UCLA Showcase Feature Adaptation Winner
Articles
Video
Our Voice Matters: How Asian Americans can make a difference in the 2020 Election A PSA from the 1990 Institute