Directing
Set in early-2000s SoCal, Smoking Tigers follows a Korean American girl as she navigates derision and growing tensions while balancing the duality of her low-income family and wealthy, elite high school environment.
Dancers Lino and Dante are struck by tragedy and the supernatural.
A group of college besties find their way through adult life with the help of a strange ability: to hear each other's inner voices. When a long-estranged friend invites the others to a housewarming party, simmering tensions between them come to the surface, and supernatural machinations are revealed.
When a 10-year-old violin prodigy immigrates from Seoul with her troubled teenage brother, and her newly-single pragmatic mother; she leaves behind her father and musical hero, with whom she desperately tries to connect to in her fantastical daydreams. But when the family is met with the disillusions of their American dreams, her idyllic image of her father begins to crumble, threatening to destroy the very thing they came to salvage: their family.
This unique narrative incorporating documentary elements follows Rey, a 40-year-old non-binary teacher and typhoon survivor, on a roadtrip to fame. With surreal comedy and social portrait realism, filmmaker Seán‌ Devlin explores climate change, LGBTQ+ issues, and the impact of colonialism on contemporary Philippines.
Audrey, a determined young American woman, arrives in the Philippines with a mysterious mission, little money, and no chance of success. But when she enlists the help of two friendly locals, Hazel and Rey, and an extremely unfriendly American expatriate, Nick, suddenly the possibility of success comes into view. All they have to do is cross 300 miles of roads, jungles, and ocean, ward off the attacks of a vicious local motorcycle gang, and keep themselves from killing each other. It's going to be a bumpy ride.
The Santiagos are a Filipino-American family of seven crammed into one tiny Los Angeles apartment, all chasing distant showbiz dreams. Bound by love and constant bickering, they navigate a turbulent year: isolation in spring, betrayal in summer, disaster at a fall party, and eviction in winter. No Room For Love is a comedy about big dreams, small spaces, and artists doing their best to survive poverty, bad luck, and each other - without ever giving up.
In the aftermath of a serial killer's capture, a man searches for what remains of his sister.
When an ancient rogue monster threatens existence, only the scrappy multi-national team P.H.A.S.E. can stop him. But their newest recruit holds a stunning secret. Against impossible odds, this lonely, conflicted, difficult, and altogether human team must band together to save the world.
An ambitious Filipina nurse leaves her family behind in the Philippines to chase the American Dream in the 1990s, only to find herself battling loneliness, cultural barriers, and unexpected hardships as she works to reunite with her daughter.
Set against the backdrop of the Watsonville race riots that set central California ablaze in 1930, Filipino American Marisol seeks shelter at Carl’s diner. Neither of them can foresee where that violent night will take them, or what secrets will be revealed.
When a Korean family unexpectedly immigrates next door, Taylor, a 14-year old Korean-American adoptee discovers her roots and the whereabouts of her birth family.
In this sci-fi rom-com karaoke musical, Stella, an undocumented Filipino in pursuit of a green card, goes on a karaoke date with a strange man who turns out to be an alien from outer space.
