In my programs, I hope to create a poetic and critical film viewing experience, one that dialectically re-animates queer-trans communities, histories, politics and intimacies. I’ve curated programs for MIX NYC: New York Queer Experimental Film Festival, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, the Korean American Museum, and was program manager for the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation in collaboration with UCLA Film and Television Archives.
Between 2011-2017, I curated an on-going LGBTQ film program for the LOS ANGELES ASIAN PACIFIC FILM FESTIVAL, intentionally mixing genres — screening narrative shorts alongside experimental film, animation, and documentary. I programmed works by emerging filmmakers such as Jerell Rosales and Lu Yang and seasoned artists such as Bruce Yonemoto and Shu Lea Cheang. I also sought out films by artists in and from West and Central Asia such as Roy Dib and Akram Zaatari — in order to challenge the East Asian focus of many Asian American film festivals and to inspire an Asian American politics of solidarity. Yes, Palestine is Asia!
