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<span class="bodycopy-copy"><b>OH, BROTHER!<br />
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When Bryn brings her boyfriend home for break, an unexpected reunion with her brother Carter exposes their unusual family secret.<br />
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Nominated for Best Picture, 908 Film Festival
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="bodycopy-copy"><b>URBAN LEGENDS<br />
</b>Bigfoot in New York, and vice-versa.<br />
<br />NYU Sight & Sound Filmmaking. Prompt: Parallel Action. Prof. Rick Litvin, Fall 2025.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="bodycopy-copy"><b>LOST & FOUND</b><br />
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70DF8gLcXuI" target="_blank">An appendectomy story, featuring claymation and mixed-media.<br />
<br /></a><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70DF8gLcXuI" target="_blank">NYU Sight & Sound Filmmaking. Prompt: Found Footage. Prof. Rick Litvin, Fall 2025.</a></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="bodycopy-copy"><b>WEDNESDAY DINNER</b><br />
A short documentary about my friends.<br />
<br />NYU Sight & Sound Filmmaking. Prof. Rick Litvin, Fall 2025</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span class="bodycopy-copy"><b>PALE BLUE DOT<br />
</b>An audio piece inspired by the Voyager 1 Golden Record.<br />
<br />NYU Sound Image, Group Narrative Project. Prof. Nico Cadena, Spring 2025.<b><br />
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<span class="bodycopy-copy"><b>DELICATES</b><br />
A grandmother tenderly washes her grandson’s stained sweater.<br />
<br />NYU Intro to Animation, Final (WIP). Prof. Christen
Smith, Fall 2024.<br /></span>
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<span class="bodycopy-copy"><b>BLACK AND AMBER<br />
</b>In 1894, after Canada invades the Pacific Northwest, a bounty hunter seeks revenge.<br />
<br />Eastside Preparatory School Senior Thesis. Spring 2024.</span>
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<span class="bodycopy-copy"><b>FILIAL PIETY<br />
</b>A daughter struggles with the expectations of her doting Chinese mother. <br />
<br />NYU application film. Fall 2023.</span>
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<span class="bodycopy-copy"><b>BLANK CANVAS
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A failed painter meets a graffiti artist who will help her open up to street art.<br />
<br />Produced at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, as part of the USC/WB Producing and Directing Class. Summer 2023.</span>
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<span class="bodycopy-copy"><b>OH, BROTHER!<br />
</b>
When Bryn brings her boyfriend home for break, an unexpected reunion with her brother Carter exposes their unusual family secret.<br />
<br />
Nominated for Best Picture, 908 Film Festival
</span>