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A helper has 30 minutes to break her 500 euro note and pay her landlord.
500 euro. How much is it worth?
I once saw a desperate Asian lady trying to buy some packs of instant noodles by using a 500 euro note at an Asian market in Madrid. She failed. My imagination ran wild: How did she get the banknote that hasn't been issued since 2019? Why did she think an ordinary shop would accept it? Does she manage to spend it eventually?
This prompted me to write a story about an immigrant navigating in a strange, adopted country, especially when Europe’s political climate has become harsher to the foreigners in recent years. I changed the protagonist from an Asian to an Eastern European to better reflect...
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A meeting between a Taiwanese mother and a British gay: he knows her son better than she would have liked it whereas she knows his husband better than he would have liked it.
A proof-of-concept short based on a feature script that I have been working on, the film explores marriage’s meaning, opening up discussions on a practice that is ingrained in human society but its real meaning is rarely examined. It also attempts to “normalize” homosexuality by shifting the focus of a queer film to internal problems inside the gay community.
Co-produced by award-wining OBACURAE in London, All About My Son features moving score by Los-Angeles-based composer Ian Chen. Portland, Oregon-based artist, Zing Chuang, drew the dramatic...
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IN DEVELOPMENT
Off the Map
A cafe faces existential questions after leaving the world's largest online mapping platform.
A short script in progress. Pre-production scheduled to start in Q4 2025.
A Third Guy
A long-married, middle-aged gay couple invites a younger man to reignite their strained sexual relationship.
A short script in progress.
All About My Son
After losing her son who was killed in an attack on a London gay bar, a conservative mother in Taipei must travel outside her comfort zone to confront the truth of both his and her lives.
A feature script in revision.
The Black Box
A professor of economics strives to get her tenure while her husband, along with other survivors of an air accident that took them to a remote island, tries to make a contact with the world through a mysterious black box.
A feature script in progress.
A Newspaper Thief
A live-in super and his seven peculiar neighbors in an apartment in the West Village, Manhattan — one of them is a newspaper thief.
A feature script in progress, adapted from two chapters of my book, New Yorkology.
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