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"I directed “Yellow Polka Dot,” about a year after the initial lockdown of 2020. This meant I spent the better part of 2021 self-producing this special project with my friend Ben Kurstin, who also serves as the Co-Producer, Writer, and DP of this film. While we were still in the midst of the Pandemic. Ben wrote 54 short scripts in the Spring/Summer of 2020, during the lockdown, and with us being mostly out of work, we were compelled to create something that was our own in 2021.

They’re two women who are unsure of the feelings they’re having about themselves because they’re living in a time when society told them that they should be boxed into a specific archetype. As a first-generation Asian-American, who was raised by immigrant parents, in Texas of all places, I felt that the theme of this story was a lot more universal in its subtext. During my prep, I was able to pull from my own experiences and feelings in order to communicate with the actors what I felt the characters themselves were feeling in context to their story, and the whole process was truly rewarding."