I'm from Baltimore, Maryland. Growing up in the suburbs as a child, I was raised with a strict Taiwanese upbringing. This usually meant mandatory violin practice and timed multiplication tables. Everything changed when I was diagnosed with leukemia at the age of ten.
Bound to the hospital, I found solace in the screen. When I exhausted the hospital’s library of films like Star Wars and The Karate Kid, I would borrow from my cinephile cousin’s eclectic bootleg VHS collection spanning the likes of Texas Chainsaw Massacre to Tokyo Story. My parents became a lot more chill with me afterwards – they let me become a filmmaker.
Education
New York University MFA '19
- recipient of the Maurice Kanbar Fellowship and Walter Manley Fellowship
Stanford University BA '08