I’ve been hopping around the world for a while. Born in Singapore, where I spent thirteen years (although with two of those living in London, UK) before moving to Victoria, BC for high school. I’ve now returned to the big city life, studying Cinema, Creative Expression and Society, and Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

The glue that's held things together amidst all the change of the last twenty years has been storytelling. I wrote and self published my first novel at age 9, and by age 14 had written four. I then discovered the world of CGI, and spent several years creating still images and animations with Blender 3D; my entry point into the world of visual expression. Photography emerged as a hobby around the same time.

The 2013 book launch held for me in celebration of my third novel opened my eyes the world of public speaking; a world I wandered deeper into as I began a 5 year long career in debate and theatre. Both saw tremendous success; I competed at the regional, provincial and national level in debate, and performed in five productions throughout high school (starring as Sherlock Holmes in Sherlock and the Beast in Beauty and the Beast in my final year).

Movies had been a passion since the start. Taking a two year film course as part of my IB diploma revealed it to me as a serious possibility for my future. If watching movies had be falling in love, I don’t know how to describe what I felt as I started making them. The roof blew open with my first major short film, A Deaf Man’s Symphony in 2019, which I wrote, directed, produced, edited, composed… and a smattering of other roles. The film was semi-finalist in the Director’s Cut International Film Festival, and played a major role in my winning of a full-ride scholarship to the University of Toronto.

Since then, I’ve been working on several upcoming projects. Since September of 2019 I’ve been working to get my second screenplay, I’m Still Here, produced at the University of Toronto. Trying to make a film about mental health and trauma at UofT hasn’t been easy, but my efforts are ongoing, and the experience has been incredible; also opening the doors for me to speak about mental health, free speech, and the experience of an artist on campus at various conferences and panel events.

Since summer of 2020, I’ve been working on the screenplay for my first feature film, The Only Bar on King Street, a musical-drama-comedy set entirely in a bar. It’s a highly personal project; a way for me to explore ideas about performativity and authenticity that I’ve been toiling around for a while (something I talk about with the lead of I’m Still Here on an episode of the video podcast DBSS).

Most recently, I had the pleasure of taking a screenwriting course in my second year of studies at UofT. The final assignment for that course was for us to pitch one of the 10 page screenplay’s we’d written during the year to judges from the Toronto International Film Festival. My pitch for Yes, and Murder, a Black Comedy short about an improv scene gone wrong, was selected as a “winner,” by the judges, and is thus being submitted to a screenplay contest.

So, lots is happening. And I love this stuff, so I’m counting on there being lots more to come. I’m always eager to collaborate with new people. Many of the most rewarding and long lasting creative relationships and friendships I’ve developed have come out of a single instagram DM–so please feel more than free to reach out for film, music video, or photography inquiries.

Boom.