Finalist for the Nashville Film Festival

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"The Choi Family" was recently a finalist for admittance to the Nashville Film Festival. In the end it wasn’t accepted, but it’s rare to be told your film is a finalist for consideration (usually you just get a rejection notice) and it was great to know my film was valued enough that it was considered until the very last second.

On to the next festival!

"The Garden" In The Classroom

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"The Garden" screened in a number of classrooms at an Upstate New York school over the past two weeks. The film was used as a complement to a story the students were reading about an urban garden and was used to enhance the lesson. The teachers and students responded very positively to the film.

Here’s one reaction to the film:

"Thanks for sharing your brilliance! The impact on the kids is huge! You brought to life something that is often times too obscure for some of them to grasp."

Thanks, Kristan Rojas, for bringing my film to the school’s attention!

Finalist at Ivy Film Festival

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In April of 2011, my short screenplay Maria and Joey, which tells the story of a single-mother’s fight to survive the flood waters of Hurricane Katrina, was a Finalist in the screenplay competition of the Ivy Film Festival. 

Unfortunately, my screenplay did not win, but this was the first time my film writing had ever been recognized—at a festival or otherwise—so it was a great honor.