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Onscreen in Searching For Color and on the red carpet at LA Shorts International Film Festival and BIFF with wonderful Director/Writer @mikaylaashe and fellow actor @vnessaph. Also screened in NYC and Award-winner at Cannes. Thank you Mikayla, so happy to be in your beautiful film! ☺️😊☺️

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Had the time of my life at @lashortsfest and feeling so privileged to get the chance to work with the super talented @mikaylaashe 🙏🙏

Super happy to have get to known everyone in our amazing team and to have get to enjoy our work together here in LA!!!

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I’m incredibly honored to share that Searching for Color is heading to the big screen at AMC, Regal, and the historic Angelika Film Center in NYC this month!

Having our film play in theaters is an absolute dream come true. And to have our NYC screening hosted by AAIFF, the first and longest-running Asian film festival in North America, means the world to our entire team.

From Cannes and Toronto to Seattle, Atlanta, Virginia, Rhode Island, and beyond. We’re so excited to see where the journey takes it next. Join us at our upcoming screenings! Grab your tickets in my bio:

Burbank International Film Festival (BIFF)
📍AMC 16 Burbank | Mon, Aug 3 @ 5:00 PM

Asian American International Film Festival (AAIFF49)
📍Village East by Angelika (NYC) | Sat, Aug 8 @ 2:30 PM

LA Shorts International Film Festival
📍Regal North Hollywood | Tue, Aug 11 @ 3:15 PM

Poster Designer: @sofiasansserif

#LAShorts #BIFF26 #AAIFF49 #DiversityInCannes #WomenInFilm

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Graduated from college last week, while my film, Searching for Color, won Best Student Short at the Diversity in Cannes Showcase!

Thank you, @usccinema, for an incredible four years and for encouraging me to tell this story. Many more to come 🫂

📸: @jdla_ @jiayangliu_ @sharon_tsao @allisonkjon @edwardmhuang @skyetargett

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It’s been reel yall. Go watch my movies or whateva

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Dreaming of set days and @daeildale’s beautiful lighting. What a strange life we creatives lead: pouring our hearts and souls into projects which never see the light of day, projects which are taken from us and become something else entirely, projects which make it to the finish line but just don’t land - and then the projects which do land. Do make a splash. Do change people’s lives, if only for a brief moment.

Here’s to being a creative: messy, imperfect, passionate and driven! Let’s keep making our art and finding meaning in life through storytelling!

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“Therapy For Me” coming soon... Get ready.

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Starring: @thesaulthomson & @sophia.center & @vnessaph

Director: @coledeppe
DP: @gs_visuals
Production Designer: @elishathlang
1st AD: @connalyakiyama
Editor/Post Sound: @coledeppe
Gaffer: @jon_reza_ganji
1st ACs: @jinkim1214 @jcunningham.photography
2nd AC: @gracekling._ @jonny.harmon @car1ychan @cameronwilhite328
HMU: @hannahmillmua
Sound Recordist: @ryanjachetta
Producers: @analeisong

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Did a music video shoot for @muninorodom on 2/7, produced by @itsmikeymurphy. It was a unique shoot with rain drenching all of us "Family" members.

Shot a banquet scene with our "family" @mingjiezhai @thisisge @vnessaph @mbiteng @gabriellagdavid.
Maybe in few years our "family" having a reunion is in order?? 😁✌️

#musicvideo #musicvideoshoot #musicvideoshoots #rain #rainshoot #setlife🎥 #studıoshoot #actor #actors #actress #actresses #family #banquet #drenched #soakingwet #workingactor #workingactors

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Last semester, I wrote and directed Searching for Color— a personal story about adoption and finding Asian belonging in a nail salon.

This is the first time I’ve ever told the story of what it’s like to be adopted and to constantly search for a home. Growing up, the nail salon was one of the few places where I saw people who looked like me. For an Asian adoptee, that meant everything.

Endless gratitude to my incredible collaborators: @vnessaph , @juneangela_official, @raggedrobin @bella_night001 —thank you for bringing your heart and artistry to this film. To my crew, my chosen family—your dedication, your honesty, your spirit filled this film with life. It’s rare to find connections on set that feel as raw as the ones that inspire a story, and I’m forever grateful to you all.

Ultimately, Searching for Color is a love letter. Gina, the nail lady, is a manifestation of the strong, independent women who have shaped me—most of all, my Nana. A Filipina woman who lived with my family as my grandfather’s caretaker, she was my world. She taught me Tagalog, she loved me, and I loved her. When her Visa expired in 2012, we were separated.

During filming, I found out that she interviewed to receive her Visa again. Soon, she’ll return, and we’ll be reunited. This film is for her.

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Writer/Director: @mikaylaashe 💅
Producer/Editor: @venus.lrd
Director of Photography: @ihsan.zirih
Starring: @vnessaph @juneangela_official @raggedrobin @bella_night001
1st AD: @katieyoun_ @edwardmhuang
Art Director: @maizyxzenger
1st AC: @alextheguo
Grip: @jct.tiger
Script Supervisor: @josh.ohh
BTS: @kla.wong
Design: @elvi.lu

Nail Salon Customers: @allie.mer @sea_gira @astoldbyvictoria_ @paulette.alvarezz @jodie_foster_cheesecake @angel.inachoy @z0rasim0ne @laur.enkim @sophieabiog @allisonkjon

Color: @ihsan.zirih
Sound Design: @mikaylaashe
Animation: @magician_anto
Composer: @rennato.nunez

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