My early training was in Journalism, but I have always sought deeper stories.
I started my documentary work with experimental pieces while in the University of Massachusetts and since then I have had several opportunities to work on passion projects.
A Notional History
A deconstruction of Malaysia's myths of decolonization.
Malaysia’s colonial masters left without a revolution — handing power to a patriotic party dedicated to the advancement of the Malay people.
A clean, simple story.
In this documentary performance, an activist, a journalist, and a performer excavate school textbooks, inherited memories, and video interviews of exiled revolutionaries – uncovering erasures, exclusions and questions around the Malayan Emergency. They investigate and speculate on the possible histories for a different Malaysia, intersecting the personal, the national, and the notional.
Welcome to Malaysia
My First Documentary.
I spent months with some of Malaysia’s migrants to explore their place in our society. Malaysia is a landing location for migrant laborers from across SE Asia and Malaysia’s reputation as a Modern, Safe and Muslim country has made us a home for Islamic people from the entire Muslim world.
A Soul of a Teacher
A Family Documentary
What started as a documentary project to explore the digital divide, how low access to technology undermines education for poorer students, became a meditation on the struggles of teachers during the pandemic. I followed my mother, and showed the small triumphs of educators as their system fell apart.
Democracy in America’s Little Baghdad
San Diego, California, is home to one of the largest populations of Iraq War refugees in the United States. I worked as a Director to follow these people who fled the failure of democracy in Iraq to try to find representation in their new home.
