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Films

This page highlights some of my most meaningful filmmaking projects over the years. A few have earned awards and appeared at international film festivals, while others were created purely for fun or experimentation. To me, filmmaking is one of the most powerful forms of storytelling — and I can’t imagine life without it. Even decades from now, I know I’ll still be pressing that record button, again and again.

Moving Pictures

It was February 2020, the height of lockdowns. Streets were empty, everyone stayed home, and boredom became a daily routine. To pass time, I started binge-watching Happy Gilmore and Parasite. Most people would’ve done the same with snacks in hand, but somehow, I ended up filming with my iPhone and a few close friends. We tried to recreate scenes we loved—bad lighting, shaky shots, lots of laughter. That small, silly idea was my very first step into filmmaking. Four years later, I still smile thinking about how something that simple could start everything.

The Steep Path

Explores the untold stories of resilience, struggles, and dreams of the H’mong ethnic minority group as they navigate policy, paperwork, and prejudice, while building their own ladders up.

THE DATE

A short film about gender and beauty expectations in Vietnamese men. Subtle yet powerful, it slowly absorbs and destroys one’s mind.

XUAN

A short film portrays the journey of a Vietnamese-Canadian expatriate as he celebrates his identity, colliding with the pressure to conform to Vietnam’s gender expectations.

THE BOX

A dark-comedy where three spies unravel their own paranoia while debating a single choice: open the box, or don’t.

Run With The Wind

An intimate short following a student broken by exam pressure, tracing the fragile line between resilience and collapse.

Bacon Lettuce Tomato

A dark-comedy short about petty appetites: betrayal, greed, and a sandwich.

When Malcolm X’s words opened the track, they felt like a manifesto: to create is to be wild, free, and a little reckless. Because art, at its best, forgets its boundaries—and remembers only the pulse of being alive.
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