Originals
Rich Man’s Dog (2026)
short action-sf screenplay.
In a hellish megastructure where greedy overlords control much-needed blood infusions, a nanobot empowered hunter stalks an unlicensed donor.
Setting Suns (2025)
sf pilot screenplay.
In a future world ruled by capitalist corporations and their lucrative artificial suns, a teen fugitive works as a scrapper to fund her mother’s addiction. But after the destruction of a sun sends her life on a collision course with the members of an eco-terrorist group, she is forced to choose what she values more: her beliefs, or her life.
Monsoon (2024)
feature film.
In 1950s British Malaya, a transgender Chinese teenager navigating colonialism, poverty, and rigid social roles, infiltrates elite parties to steal from colonizers. But when they fall into a risky romance with a Malay guard in the British army and deepen their bond with a rebellious friend, the line between survival, happiness, and revolution blurs.
Santa Barbara International Screenwriting Competition. Semi finalist. 2025.
LA International Screenplay Diversity Initiative. Semi finalist. 2025.
Water for the Basin (2022)
play.
A listless graduate student attempts to finish her thesis on an elusive cave loach all while being haunted by the stories of a grandmother she never knew and the curse she put upon their family.
Weavers (2022)
animated pilot screenplay.
In the middle of a secret war between ancient Chinese gods, a lonely nonbinary teen is forced to join a team of magical warriors endowed with the spirits of ancient immortals. Now it is up to them to defend the pillar that keeps apart the Heaven and the Earth, or allow the ultimate binary to collapse into one.
Creative Screenwriting Animation Quarter-Finalist. 2021.
Aunt Mei (2021)
feature screenplay.
An Asian American transwoman, estranged from her family, reconnects with her younger sister after receiving a mysterious call from a nephew she didn’t know existed—Peter Park, convinced that he must be Spider-Man, is seeking his Aunt Mei.
Robert Foshko Memorial Screenplay Scholarship and competition, 2021
Screencraft Drama (Semi Finalist 2021)
Hawker (2026-current)
historical fantasy novel.
After the end of a long war for independence leaves an island nation fragmented by ethnic group, a traumatized child, wrenched from their home among the spirits of the forest, must quell the hatred within their heart through the healing medicines of family, friends, and street food.
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Collaborations
Directed by Eva Chaitman
Screenplay by Lumi Yeh Costa
Premiered at the Tall Grass Film Festival
Selected for the Florida Film Festival
