Filmography

The Creative High (2022) feature length documentary with DigAll Media 501(c)(3)
Painted Nails (2016) feature documentary with DigAll Media 501 (c)(3)
Felting-Peace Industry (2015) short documentary
Second Language ( 2014) Short documentary
Women Empowering Women (2008) shot in Mongolia, China and Thailand, for Women’s Global Fund
Jewels of the Mekong (2006) Shot in Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and China, produced for United Nations Development Program
Beyond the Mountain (2005) Shot entirely in Nepal, produced for UN Development Program
Film Inside the Bay (2002) six profiles about outstanding San Francisco Bay Area film-video professionals Sundance Channel
White Hotel (1997) feature length Documentary, Eritrea, Wake Up! Productions
Sundance Channel – Film Inside the Bay, televised 2002

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS –THE CREATIVE HIGH

Special Film Event for National Recovery Month, 2022
The Creative High, Film Experience at Commonwealth Club, 2022
Skyline Indie Film Festival, Winchester, VA, 2022
United Nations Association Film Festival (UNAFF), Stanford and San Francisco Bay Area, 2022
Reel Recovery Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA, 2022
The San Francisco Independent Film Festival, Awarded Special Jury Prize, Excellence in American Profiles 2022
Thin Line Festival in Denton, TX, 2022
DocuWest, Documentary Festival in Denver, CO, 2022
NovaFest, The Northern Virginia International Film and Music Festival
35th Columbia Film Festival in Columbia, MD, 2022
Nevada Women’s Film Festival in Las Vegas, NV, 2022

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS – PAINTED NAILS

Angel Island Permanent Exhibition, Painted Nails, 2022
Asian Student Association Screening at Stanford University 2020
Barnard College, Presented for Classroom Setting Women in Health 2020
Wing Luke Museum of The Asian American Experience-Where Beauty Lies, Seattle, Washington 2019-2020
Johns Hopkins APAMSA-Asian American Medical Students Association 2019
UNAFF Traveling Film Festival – Denver, Painted Nails 2017
Women’s Voices for the Earth, Montana 2017
Organization of Chinese Americans –SF Chapter
8th Annual CSM Asian Pacific America Film Festival 2017
Seattle Asian American Film Festival, Painted Nails, 2017
Cinequest International Film Festival, Painted Nails, 2016
CAAMFest, Painted Nails, (Center for Asian American Media) 2016
Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival, Painted Nails, 2016
Disorient Asian American Film Festival, Painted Nails, 2016 (Courageous Womyn Award)
Asian Health Services Screening – Oakland California 2016-2020 Ongoing
Viet Film Festival, Painted Nails, 2016
DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival, Painted Nails, 2016
Sacramento Asian Pacific Film Festival, Painted Nails, 2016
Chicago International Social Change Film Festival, Painted Nails, 2016
ECO Film Festival, Painted Nails, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2016
New Orleans Film Festival, Painted Nails, Jury Award Finalist, 2016
UNAFF International Documentary Film Festival at Stanford, Painted Nails, 2016
California Film Institute – San Rafael Film Center, Painted Nails, 2016
Main San Francisco Public Library, Painted Nails, 2016

SELECTED PRESENTATIONS WHITE HOTEL

Museum of Modern Art New York and the Lincoln Center, Selected for New Directors Series, New York, 1997
Two Boots Den of Cin, New York 2001
Long Beach Museum of Modern Art, 20 Questions: Person, Place or Thing, 1999
United Nations Film Festival, Building a Society for All Ages, Stanford University, CA, 1999
Women Make Waves (WMW) Film and Video Festival, Taipei, Taiwan 1998
Harvard Film Archive, Reverse Angel Series, Boston, Massachusetts January– February 1997
Zanzibar International Film Festival, Zanzibar, Africa 1998
The Cultural Center of The Philippines Independent Film & Video, Philippines 1998
Black Maria Film and Video Festival, New Jersey 1997
Roxie Cinema, Calendar Screening, San Francisco, California, 1997
Seattle Art Museum and 911 Media Arts Center, Featured Event, Seattle, WA, 1997
Documental, Independent Attitude Series, Santa Monica, California, March 1997
Indiana University, World Aids Day Series, Collection of Wells Media, Indiana, 1997
The Red Vic, Calendar Screening, San Francisco, California, January 4, 1997
Channel 4, London, England 1997
Free Speech TV (FStv), Boulder, Colorado 2000

PERMANENT COLLECTIONS –WHITE HOTEL

Permanent Collection Library of Congress
African Video Collections – Harvard College Library, Boston Mass, University of Minnesota, Human Rights
The Africa Collections at Stanford University
Lemieux Library, Seattle, Washington
James Madison Library, African Collection
Maryknoll World Video Library, JMU Africa Collection
University of Idaho, Idaho
University of Washington, AIDS-World Health Collection
UC Merced Library, Merced, California
Great River Regional Library, New York

GRANTS

Khyentse Foundation 2022
California Humanities 2022
Lutheran Fund – 2019 and 2020
The Puffin Foundation Ltd. Artist’s Grant – 2009
Jewish Communal Fund – 2011, 2019

SELECTED AWARDS

The Creative High 75 min documentary

Special Jury Prize for Excellence in American Profiles, San Francisco Independent Festival 2022
Carry the Message, Special Recognition Award, Thin Line Film and Music Festival 2022
Best Documentary Feature Award, Sacramento World Film Festival 2022

Painted Nails 57 min documentary

Courageous Womyn Award at Disorient Film Festival, Painted Nails 2016
Jury Award Finalist at the New Orleans Film Festival, Painted Nails 2016
Commendation, Painted Nails Production Team-For depicting the contributions of Asian Americans in San Jose and raising awareness on issues that affect the community daily – City of San Jose, California
San Francisco Film Society, Film House Residency Award, 2010

White Hotel a documentary

Audience Award, Zanzibar International Film Festival, White Hotel, 1998
Selected Colds Springs Workshop, sponsored by Miramax Films, White Hotel, New York, 1996
Honorable Mention, Black Maria Film and Video Festival, White Hotel 1997

BROADCAST 2016-2020 – PAINTED NAILS

PBS Nationwide including but not limited to KQED to WNET airdates in 13 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Hawaii, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia INCLUDING: • Charlotte (SCETV)• Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville (SCETV)• Indianapolis • Las Vegas• Los Angeles• Orlando (WDSC & WEFS)• Philadelphia• Portland (OPB) • San Antonio• San Diego • San Francisco (KRCB, KCSM & KQED) • Tulsa

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Juror – Playground Theatre, Berkeley California, Short Film Competition-The mission of Play Ground is to support the development of new local voices for the theatre 2012
Jury Chairman – Advisory Panel and Juror for United Nations Film Festival since inception, 1998-2022
Juror Panelist for the Golden Gate Awards San Francisco International Film Festival, 1995-2008
Documentary Juror for Mill Valley Film Festival, 2001-2008 –Sebastopol Film Festival Juror, 2019

BOARD MEMBER

MIR San Francisco Zen Center-2019-2020
Feed Educate Employ South Africa-2011-2017

PANEL

The Dream Act-Stanford University-United Nations Film Festival–2012
The Intersection of Health and Ethics – Stanford Medical School- United Nations Film Festival 2016
Stanford Teaching Guide – White Hotel – 2012

DISTRIBUTORS

Kanopy 2018-To Present
Tapeworm 2000-2009
Tower Video 2000-2010
Amazon 2000-2020
World Wide by Jane Balfour Films LTD, out of London, England 1997

GUEST LECTURER

Cascade Canyon School, Fairfax, California 2012
California State University, Communications Department, Hayward, California – 1997
UC California, Film Studies Department, Berkeley, California 1998-2011
Stanford University, Humanities Department, Stanford, California 1998-2020
FLM 16- Camera As Witness: Women Around the World From Victims to Leaders, This course offers a unique chance to become familiar with global women’s issues, understand the aesthetic capacities of documentary filmmaking 2021

INSTRUCTOR DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKING

Documentary Film Instructor, San Francisco Digital Film School 2014-2015
Documentary Film Instructor, Mid Pen Media Center 2017

ARTICLES

Artists in Recovery Reach for ‘The Creative High’ KQED Arts & Culture by Michael Fox, 2022
‘The Creative High’ Portrays Reality of Artists’ Addiction and Recovery Noma Faingold, 2022
In San Francisco died of overdoses than of covid-19, Eat, Drink, Films, C.J. Hirschfield, 2022
Theater, Music and Dance Play a Role in Recovery from Drug and Alcohol Addiction, Datebook Chronicle, 2022
Powerful new documentary on art and addiction, The Examiner, Pam Grady 2022
Radio interview for Film Close-Ups on KALX Berkeley with Greg Scharpen, 2022
Artists in Recovery Find Their Fix in “The Creative High” Olivia Pennelle for The Fix, 2022
Danger, ongles toxiques by Iris Gagnon-Paradis La Presse 2017
Examiner–Ed Moy 2016
Sonoma Gazette 2016
KALW Local Public Radio San Francisco- Your Call, Hana BaBa a conversation with filmmakers
“Painted Nails a documentary”, Women & Environments by Helen Lynn 2019
“A San Francisco Salon Owner Shares Her Story of Miscarriages + Safe Cosmetics Advocacy in New Documentary”, 7×7 2016
“Painted Nails”, Frontrunner Magazine July 2016
“Griffin and Jordan, Getting Their Nails Done,” Film 360, Michael Fox, May 2010
“Death in Africa, Death in Kansas”, Reel Talk, August 26, 2003
“White Hotel” Slant Magazine, Ed Gonzalez, October, 2001
“Documentaries in the Limelight”, SF Gate.com, October 19, 1999
“The White Hotel” The Independent, San Francisco, February 1998
“A Journey to the White Hotel”, Cue Magazine, February 1998
“What’s On” The Argonaut, Santa Monica, California September 26, 1998
“The White Hotel”, The New York Independent Film Monitor, New York, January 15,1997
“White Hotel”, The Bay Area Business Woman Journal, San Francisco, January 1997
“White Hotel takes personal look at AIDS in Eritrea”, Film & Tape World, San Francisco, January 1997
“White Hotel challenges viewers to confront reality”, The Richmond Review, San Francisco, January 1996
“Modern African Adventure Told in Documentary, White Hotel”, San Francisco Marina Times, January 1996

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

United Nations Association Film Festival Advisory Board International Documentary Association
Member Film Fatales
Headlands Center for Arts