SPELLS FOR SAFETY is a poetic short film on (re)establishing emotional safety and finding it within during times of turmoil. Through journeying inward, the narrator, a trans person of color, returns home, physically, spiritually, and emotionally. Drawing on memory, grounding practices, and the natural world, SPELLS FOR SAFETY offers a roadmap for how we can return to ourselves.

SPELLS FOR SAFETY premiered at the Newark LGBTQ Film Festival, then went on to play at the Jersey City Poetry Festival and Frame by Frame: Third World Newsreels Film Festival.

ON MOTT STREET: HERE TO STAY is a short documentary film that features the story of a fifth-generation family-run store, Wing On Wo & Co., the oldest continuously operating store in Manhattan’s Chinatown. Inside of a Chinatown affected by rapid displacement and gentrification, fifth-generation shopkeepers Mei Lum and Gary Lum speak to how their work exists as everyday resistance to gentrification and creates sustained community in the heart of New York City.

ON MOTT STREET: HERE TO STAY premiered on the Manhattan Neighborhood Network and is distributed by Third World Newsreel.