Curriculum Vitae
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EDUCATION
M.F.A., Social Documentation, Film and Digital Media Department
2022, UC Santa Cruz
B.F.A., Cinema and Media Studies, Carleton College, 2012
EXHIBITIONS, SCREENINGS, FESTIVALS
- Solo screening + talk for Many Moons at the Minor Theater, Exploring Our Roots Series, Arcata, CA. October 16, 2024.
- remnants / relics / residue, Group Exhibition at Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany CA. August 1–31, 2024.
- San Diego Asian Film Festival, San Diego, CA. November 5, 2023.
- Red Nation International Film Festival, Los Angeles, CA. November 5, 2023.
- Exploring Our Roots Art Festival, Arcata Playhouse, Arcata, CA. June, 2023.
- Futurescapes: Projects from the Coha-Gunderson Collective, Institute for the Arts and Sciences, June 2023.
- CAAMFest 2023, “Many Moons” Screening + Q&A at SFMoma, May 2023
- Animating Asian Histories Screening + Panel at the Institute for the Arts and Sciences, Santa Cruz, May 2023.
- Los Angeles Pacific Islander Film Festival at L.A. Live, Los Angeles, May 2023
- UCLA Film and Television Archive Screening introductory video before “We’re Alive,” Hammer Museum, Westwood, CA. January 2023.
- Frames Per Second Group Exhibition, Sesnon Gallery at UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz CA. September 20, 2022–January 28, 2022.
- Beyond the Story: Social Documentation MFA Thesis Screening, Del Mar Theater, Santa Cruz CA. November 9, 2022.
AWARDS AND HONORS
2012, Summa Cum Laude, Carleton College
GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2023, Flaherty Seminar Fellow
2022, Bay Area Video Coalition Mentee Fellow
2022, Coha-Gunderson Prize for Speculative Fiction, UC Santa Cruz
2022, Institute for Social Transformation Seed Grant, UC Santa Cruz
2022, Arts Dean Travel Grant, UC Santa Cruz
2022, Florence French Grant, UC Santa Cruz
2021, Villanova “Turning Points in History” University Grant
2021, Florence French Grant, UC Santa Cruz
INVITED TALKS
- October 2024: Many Moons Screening + Talk with Stephanie Lumsden, Exploring Our Roots Arts Series Festival, Minor Theater, Arcata, CA.
- October 2024: Guest Lecture for Ghosts and Their Media course at UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA.
- August 2024: Many Moons Screening + Talk, Abrams Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA.
- July 2024: Many Moons Screening + Talk, Mendocino Art Center, Mendocino, CA.
- June 2024: Many Moons Screening + Talk, Rural Chinatowns and Hidden Sites in the United States Conference, Salt Lake City, UT.
- March 2024: Ghostly Kinships: Solidarities of Refuge in Many Moons for the 30th Annual Social Justice Summit at Cal Poly Humboldt.
- October 2024: Looking After Ghosts - Listening to the Silences of Humboldt’s Chinese Expulsions in Many Moons for the 25th Annual Campus and Community Dialogue on Race at Humboldt State University.
- May 2023: Animating Asian Histories Screening + Panel for Many Moons, IAS Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.
- May 2023: Many Moons and Humboldt’s Chinese Expulsion of ‘85, College of the Redwoods, Online.
- March 2023: Many Moons Talk for Landing at Santa Cruz, Online.
- November 2022: Panel Presentation: Frames Per Second; Diaristic Storytelling, Sesnon Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.
- May 2022: Panel Presentation: Film and Digital Media Department Sesnon Salon on Many Moons, Sesnon Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA.
- March 2022: Panel Presentation: Many Moons and Solidarities of Refuge for the John Lewis College’s Solidarities for Justice Event, as part of the Necessary Trouble series, Santa Cruz, CA.
TALKS ABOUT MY WORK
Grace Kyungwon Hong’s “How to Have Solidarity with A Ghost: Haunting As Care in Chisato Hughes’s “Many Moons” for Panel Talk, Interrupting Weaponized Care: Anti-Racism and Decolonial Worldmaking at the University of Toronto. March 2023.
MEDIA + PUBLICITY
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Interview with Patricia Lai for Many Moons, Monday Morning KMUD. July 31 2023.
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Soe, Valerie. (Review) “Let it Shine: 2023 San Diego Asian Film Festival,” beyondasiaphilia.com. Web. 12 November 2023.
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Interview with Film Closeups: Many Moons, KALX. Hosted by Greg Scharpen, Sonia Mistry, and Chandler Bennett. May 6, 2023.
WRITING
Kin Waters - in conversation with Savvy Wood, published in The Archive as Liberation, slated for distribution March 2025.
CURATING + PROGRAMMING
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2025–Programmer / organizer, ashes to clay | films about freedom as a place (mutual aid screening for incarcerated firefighters fighting in the L.A. wildfires), The Greenhouse Project, Santa Cruz, CA. January 25th.
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2024–Programmer / organizer, Films for Palestine, Abrams-Claghorn Gallery, Albany, CA. February 19th.
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2023–Programmer, Going with the Ghost, BAMFA Basement Cinema, Berkeley, CA. May 26th.
- 2018–Co-Programmer: amwa film screening series 02: paraspace, Echo Park Film Center, Los Angeles, CA. August 22 + 23.
ORGANIZING + WORK
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2023–Present: Director / Producer, UC Sentencing Project
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2020–2023: Administrative Organizer, Ending the Korean War Teaching Collective
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2020–2022: Steering Committee Member + Organizer, Humboldt Asians and Pacific Islanders in Solidarity
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2016–2021: Organizer, California Coalition for Women Prisoners
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2016–2020: Organizer, amwa (asian mamas working in the arts)
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2016–2020: Media Producer, Hammer Museum
VIDEO DISTRIBUTION: Third World Newsreel