By The Roots
Writer and Director Madison Young
Executive Producer Silas Howard
In production
When SF-based gallerist and sexual revolutionary Madison Young brings her dominant home to Ohio to meet her conservative family, she is forced to hide the life she has made and confront the shadows of the past that inspired her to leave.
Feature film
Supporting role as “Blake”
Cast attached: Margaret Cho (All-American Girl), Lea DeLaria (Orange is the New Black), Emily Robinson (Eighth Grade), Brant Daugherty (Pretty Little Liars), Vico Ortiz (Sex Lives of College Girls), Elsie Fisher (Eighth Grade), Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club)
Clean Slate
Director Emily May Jampel
Writers Josephine Chiang and Joyce Keokham
Producer Yoko Kohmoto |
Executive Producer Timothy Tau
In post-production
Two Asian nonbinary best friends and actors must make some sacrifices when they go up for the same breakout role.
Short film
Lead role as “Josephine”
Also featuring: Joyce Keokham, Sureni Weerasekera, Justin Rodriguez (Pose, Awkwafina is Nora from the Queens)
Goodbye Party
Directors Nathan Pearson and Sophia Lou
In post-production
Queer, AAPI-led dark comedy about Rowan as he throws himself a goodbye party before leaving New York
Short film
Supporting role as “Tyler”
Also featuring: Nathan Pearson, Lynn Kim Do, Zia Lawrence, Betsy Helmer, Joseph Lymous, Shenuqe Tissera
Main Street - Pilot - Ep 1
Director Scott Rosenfelt
Completed. Premiered at Soho International Film Festival 2024
An intergenerational web of three mothers and daughters, starting with an engagement party where family conflicts go up in flames
TV Pilot
Lead role as “Kelly”
Also featuring: Julia Chen Myers (Dear Evan Hansen)
They’re Packing
Director Gabi Carruba
Writer and Producer Noah Wolfe
Completed
A group of queers head upstate for the weekend to learn how to shoot a gun
Short film
Lead role as “B”
Also featuring: Leyna Bloom (Pose), Adam Kantor (Rent), Jo Ellen Pellman (The Prom), John Ellison Conlee (Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Billions, High Maintenance), Ishmael Gonzalez (And Juliet)
Springs
Writer and Director Morgan Mein
Producer Emily McCann Lesser and Olivia Mastrangelo
Premiered at Greenpoint Film Festival 2024. Also screened at Girls in Film NYC and aGLIFF Prism Film Festival
20-somethings Margo and Dan take a trip to the Hamptons. Their picturesque vacation is soon interrupted by the arrival of a strange unexpected neighbor, The Clammer. A queer crisis ensues as they try to determine if he is a friend or foe.
Short film
Lead role as “Margo“
Also featuring: John Hendrick, Johnny Zito