Some of the projects I've worked on, anywhere from CONCEPTION to DELIVERY
Veuve Clicquot
(Cooking Videos)
Role: Editor / Colourist
Produced by: The Deli
Recipe videos with Canadian chef Mike Sonier. See the feature HERE.
Alberta Blue Cross
(Commercials)
Role: Editor / Colourist
Produced by: PARK Production House
Life insurance commercials.
Door Mouse
(Feature Film)
Role: Editor
Director: Avan Jogia
Produced by: Independent Edge, Telefilm
Mouse (Hayley Law) is stuck in a dead-end job at Mama’s Burlesque Club, where her boss Mama (Famke Janssen) encourages her to pursue her real passion of making comics. When her colleague Doe-Eyes goes missing and the cops do nothing about it, Mouse and her sidekick Ugly (Keith Powers) take it upon themselves to find out what happened to her. IMDB
The Smile of Maud Lewis: Behind the Music
(Short Doc)
Role: Director / Editor
Produced by: Yarilo Music Foundation
Anna Levy completes her 20 year dream of recording music of late legendary composer Nikolai Korndorf. Learn more about the people behind the music HERE.
Terry Fox: The Power of One
(Documentary)
Role: Segment Editor / VFX Compositor
Segment Producer: Celeste Koon
Produced by: CBC GEM
Watch the full documentary HERE.
STAY
(Short Film)
Role: Producer / Editor
Director: King Louie
Produced by: King Louie Films
After touring North America for three months, Kaleb meets Ryan, an artist from Vancouver, with the heavy burden of a broken relationship. The two spark up a connection at the club where Kaleb will be performing as his drag persona, Ivy Diamonds. A starstruck Ryan comes out of his shell, hoping to get to know Kaleb/Ivy better, even if just for the night. Learn more about the film HERE.
Esther & Sai
(Short Film)
Role: VFX Supervisor
Directors: Rosie Choo Pidcock, Anaïsa Visser
Produced by: Jesse Copeland, Jon Warne
Esther and Sai are strangers with a few things in common: they are new immigrant students, they are homesick and they are hungry. When a racially charged interaction with a grocer goes awry, each finds themselves back in their dorm room with the only meal they could find: a box of macaroni and cheese. A night of loneliness and self doubt threatens to unravel each of them, but ultimately meeting a fellow kindred spirit sparks the possibility of belonging. Based on a true story, Esther and Sai captures the struggle of immigrating to a new country through the beginning of a lifelong friendship. IMDB
Global Relay
(Promotional Videos)
Role: Director
Produced by: Bluechip Productions
Videos highlights Global Relay’s Collaborate and Discovery services.
Two Sentence Horror Stories: Season 2
(Streaming Series)
Role: Digital Imaging Technician
DOP: Naim Sutherland / Guy Pooles
Produced by: CW
This anthology series of terror features diverse characters facing primal fears in spine-chilling situations that stretch past daily routine. IMDB
My Lucky Something
Role: Editor
Director: Celeste Koon
Produced by: CBC
A short documentary about lucky things and their owners. Watch it HERE.
The 100
(TV Series)
Role: Stunts Previs Editor
Stunt Coordinator: Trevor Addie
Produced by: CW
Set ninety-seven years after a nuclear war has destroyed civilization, when a spaceship housing humanity's lone survivors sends one hundred juvenile delinquents back to Earth, in hopes of possibly re-populating the planet. IMDB
Airs and Graces
Role: Producer / Editor
Director: Rose Paine
Airs and Graces follows a lonely young woman, Klara, whose plans to harm herself in a secluded guesthouse are interrupted by her voyeuristic host. IMDB
The Hollow: Season 2
(Streaming Series)
Role: Animator
Animation Supervisor: Jesse Davidge
Produced by: Netflix, Slap Happy Cartoons
3 teen strangers awaken in a dangerous world and try to make sense of what connection they have to each other as they attempt to make it out alive. IMDB
LifeXP: Season 1
(Web Series)
Role: Associate Producer / Editor / Colorist / Online Editor
Producer: Cassandra Ebner / Trevor Addie
Produced by: Ebnerds Entertainment / Independent Production Fund
Life XP is an action-packed dramatic comedy that takes place both in real life and Virtual Reality. Our main character Angela finds herself fired from her old job and thrust into Beta Testing the newest VR system. Each week she is immersed in a new video game and it starts to have an impact on her everyday life. All Angela wants is to be the hero of her own story but seeing as she's never played a video game before and her life is going into shambles this may prove harder to gain the XP points needed to become the hero rather than the zero. Follow the series HERE
Natural Factors
(TV Commercials)
Role: Editor / Motion Graphics / Color / Finishing
Producer: Shawn Serdar
Produced by: Pacific Producers Group
A selection of nationally aired TV commercials
HP Car Camcorder
(Online Commercial)
Role: Writer / Director
Producer: Nicholas Shepard
Produced by: Bluechip Productions
A promotional video for web and TV
The Blue by Dan Moxon | Lounge Singer
(Music Video)
Role: Editor / VFX
Director: Chris Merrell
Follow the artist HERE.
Lucy Dies
(Short Film)
*Best Original Script / honourable mention Drama and Ensemble Cast (Spring) 2017 - AOF
Role: Producer / Director / Editor
Produced by: Ian Macdonald, Narrow Needle Films, Landrock Entertainment
Produced with: Erica Landrock, Nicholas Shepard.
Festival Plays:
Asians On Film 2018
Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival 2017
The quiet and unassuming receptionist, Lucy, tries to uncover the identity of a recent office suicide victim, which leads to questions about her own identity in the workplace.
Playdate
(Short Film)
*Best Actress / People Choice International Block 2016 - Fire Reel Film Festival
*Best Actress (Summer) 2015 - AOF
Role: Producer / Director / Editor
Produced by: Narrow Needle Films
Festival Plays:
Firereel Film Festival 2016
Hamilton Film Festival 2015
Asians On Film 2015 (Summer)
Seattle Asian American Film Festival 2015
In an attempt to rewrite the past, a regretful young woman sets up a play date with her childhood best friend.
xMatters
(Promotional Video)
Role: Co-writer / Director / Editor
Producer: Nicholas Shepard
Produced by: Bluechip Productions
xmatters.com
Promotional video
IMPERIAL
(Short Film)
*Best Editor Award 2016 - Vancouver Short Film Festival
Role: Editor
Director: Tim Sharp
Produced by: 3 Magi Productions
Marco lives his life in two clean halves. He has his family and his passion for old vaudeville... and the other life that lets him pay for things, make late night phone-calls, is the cause of all those deep red stains he wipes off his clothes before kissing his wife goodnight..
Nerves by Facts | The Hunch EP
(Music Video)
Role: Producer / Writer / Director / Editor
Alice by Synthcake | Molding Through Seasons EP
(Music Video)
Role: Producer / Co-writer / Director / Editor
Salt Water
(Short Film)
Role: Editor, Colorist
Director: Nadine Wright
Produced by: Justin Anthony, Starlise Waschuk
Truth, desire and the story never written.
TRICKS ON THE DEAD: THE STORY OF CHINESE LABOUR CORPS IN WWI
(Feature Length Documentary)
Role: Additional Editor
Director: Jordan Paterson
Produced by: Rare Earth Media in association with OMNI Televisions, a division of Rogers Communications, Ecpad France, CCTV 10 China
In the years following the 1911 Xinhai revolution in China, the country was rapidly emerging into international affairs for the first time. The First World War erupted in 1914 and by 1916 British, French and Chinese states had signed agreements to send almost 140,000 indentured Chinese labourers to the battlefields of Europe. 85,000 of this newly formed 'Chinese Labour Corps' were secretly transported across Canada in locked CPR trains on the very railway built by their countrymen. They were then shipped to Europe where thousands died but until recently remained largely unacknowledged. So the question of this unusual journey still remains today: 'What were the Chinese doing in an imperialist war in Europe?' Zhang Yan, a young Chinese history student who is from the same Shandong villages as the Chinese labourers in 1916, sets out to answer this question and find out what really happened to the men of the Chinese Labour Corps. Discovering clues from the diary of Chinese interpreter Gu
