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This is a documentary exploring the unprecedented experiences and emotional trails of students thrusted into online learning due to COVID-19.After COVID-19 proved that it wasn’t just a fleeting fear, students realized that they would be entrenched in online learning and quarantine life for much longer than they thought. In this documentary short film, students share their feelings of isolation, anxiety, and emotional exhaustion. Though all testimonies follow a similar thread, each student experiences individual struggles and unique strategies to stay hopeful.I wanted to make this film resemble a small time capsule of the experiences Zoom University students have been going through this past calendar year. I started making this film with no crew by reaching out to several students and interviewing five of them who responded and followed through. Considering the COVID-19 safety protocols, I filmed the interviewees individually in short and limited time slots. My next challenge was to create a compact film under 15 minutes from the hours of the footage I had filmed. It required several stages of reviewing the edit and trimming down the clips wherever possible. The result was a streamlined and cohesive narrative that reflects the psychological challenges these students faced. 

Escaping from the battlefield, a wounded partisan finds himself a quiet end alone in the forest. But before he departs from life, he accepts a final chance to say goodbye to the most important person to him - his mother.
Upon hearing the Russian song “Partisan” by Basta, I was incredibly interested in learning more about these unrecognized heroes who have been lost in history. In my research, I discovered a widely-known but unattributed poem of the Soviet partisan. Struck by grief for the fallen and anger over the injustice for the living, I made a promise to myself to tell this partisan's story and help educate people over the heroics of World War II partisans.
I began writing the script for this short film in April 2019. In fall of that year, I began gathering funding for the film, and putting a cast and crew team together. Although the film was on schedule and was entirely filmed by February 2020, the pandemic delayed the film's postproduction, stalling the editing process. However, with perserverance, this 7-minute short film was finally completed in March 2021.
Nearly two years after the idea's formation, I am ecstatic to see the film's finalization. A showcase of many talents, I am extremely thankful to all who contributed to the making of PARTISAN, and I'm proud of how we made it turn out.
 

The Shooting at Rattler's Ridge is a short film about a cowboy named Filicker who uses a 1920s camera to capture some evidence on an illegal Moonshine operation. The story takes off when an unexpected event happens. Now Flicker has to save his life while pursuing his detective work. While in quarantine, my brother, Reed, and I brainstormed ideas for a short film. We decided to create a western short movie using the camera Reed had recently fixed. We used our grandfather's old camera from the 1920s as a prop in the film. Our wardrobe for the characters was pieced together from old costume boxes in the attic. We went on location in Aliso Viejo to a path we had scouted beforehand with us two as crew and actors. We spent a few days completing the shooting and capturing some shots on my grandfather's old camera. The shots make an appearance at the end of the film.