A Selection of Documentaries
Executive Producer, Producer-Director. Filmed over a month in the World’s largest refugee camp of Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. An ensemble of residents invite us into their world, where the years have tested their patience. Amid displacement, ambition still buzzes for some while urgent pressures define the day-to-day for others. This film follows a community in motion. Disorienting first impressions gradually give way to a layered portrait of stateless life. For Al Jazeera Documentary.
Read an essay from the film maker on Guernica
A Rohingya Ramadan
Series Creator, Producer. Asia's demographic shifts are poised to redefine the world order, with India, China, and Indonesia at the epicenter. The next generation will play a key role in determining whether these three giants will realize the promise of ‘The Asian Century'. In four episodes this series explores the challenges young people are facing. How will these nations navigate the next decade? For CNA.
National Award winner for Best News Programme, Asian Academy Creative Awards.
[In development]
Executive Producer, Producer-Director. After nearly seven years behind bars on politically motivated charges, former Philippine Justice Secretary Leila De Lima is free—and the man who put her there isn’t. Rodrigo Duterte, the architect of the drug war that left thousands dead, has been extradited to The Hague to stand trial. Now, De Lima fights to reclaim her own justice—will she take the stand against Duterte at the ICC?
“I Choose Defiance”
Development Producer, Casting Producer. Amid the chaos of gearing up an international pageant Indian-American beauty queen and entrepreneur Chhavi Verg journeys east to join up local celeb Thuy Tien to explore the origins of a meditation-inspired, Vietnamese coffee company Trung Nguyen Legend. Making a pilgrimage from the frenzy of Ho Chi Minh City to the serene Central Highlands, Chhavi discovers surprising parallels between the resilience of Vietnam’s coffee industry and her own quest for inner strength. For Discovery.
Producer-Director. A first of its kind intimate look into mental health struggles in China, from the vantage point of 3 young women who are navigating study, work and life in the big city. The journey from early signals of feeling 'off', the paths taken in seeking help and receiving a diagnosis, weighing treatment options and the bumpy roads to recovery. Premiered on BIE别的
Read more on Shanghai Daily, RADII, BIE别的
Writer, Producer. When China globalization ramps up, it’s countries like Kenya who give the world a glimpse into what a China focused future might look like. From Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative in 2013 to China’s increasingly prominent presence on the world stage. A view from the ground in Nairobi, spotlighting Kenyans and Chinese living the geopolitical shifts. Premiered on Vice China.
Hear from the filmmaker on VOA, China Global South Project