The work I want to be remembered for.

Feature documentary

50 Years of Fabulous.

The 50-year LGBTQ civil rights movement, told through the Imperial Council of San Francisco. Frameline 38 Official Selection, QDocs 2018 Opening Film, 20+ festivals, distributed by Frameline for educational youth programs, available on PBS and JustWatch.

In development · premiering 2027

The Long Rescue.

Filmed over ten years in Cebu, Philippines, with Filipina teen survivors of sex trafficking living in a secret shelter — as they dream of family and romance, and face the communities that failed them. Directed by Jennifer Huang, with Jethro Patalinghug as creative producer and editor.

IDFA Producers Connection, Gotham Week, FIFDH Impact Days (2024). DOC NYC Storytelling Incubator, Film Independent CNN Docu-Series Intensive (2022). Winner, Chicago Pitch & Movies That Matter (2021).

Feature documentary · 2018

#MyNameIs.

The global fight against Facebook's discriminatory "real name policy" — a movement led by drag performers, domestic abuse survivors, immigrants, artists, political activists, Native Americans, African Americans, and the LGBTQ community to maintain their safety and authentic identities online.

Director. BAVC National MediaMaker Fellow, 2016.

Documentary short

My Revolutionary Mother.

A filmmaker confronts his mother — a political activist in the Philippines — about his childhood abandonment. A short on immigration, assimilation, and reconciliation.

Producer, director, editor. CAAM Fest 2014, Cinemalaya 2015. Best Documentary Short, Boston Asian American Film Festival 2015. Named one of Pinoy Rebyu's ten best Philippine documentaries of 2015.