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Vietnam Battles HIV Epidemic with U.S. Aid
(Dec. 24, 2008)
The number of HIV infections has tripled in Vietnam over the past decade. With funding from the U.S. and other countries, the Vietnamese government is now combating this global health problem.

Role: reporter and multimedia producer. This 8.30-minute mini-documentary is the core piece for an enterprising multimedia project on HIV/AIDS in Vietnam.

Burmese Monks Funnel Money Into Myanmar (WSJ.com/ May 2008)
As NGOs are having trouble getting into Myanmar, a group of Burmese monks in New York has raised more than $2 million, which will be sent directly to monasteries in disaster-stricken areas.

Role: reporter and multimedia producer.


Animation: Dissecting China's Real-Estate Market
(WSJ.com/ June 2010)
China's housing prices are surging and government officials are worried about what they see as a potential asset bubble. But how did it get to this? Watch an animation about the movers and shakers of this red-hot real-estate market.

Role: reporter and multimedia producer. Conceptualized animation with two other producers as an introductory video for a more comprehensive project on the Chinese real-estate market.



Beijing's Changing Citiscape
(WSJ.com/ July 2008)
Since Beijing won the bid for the Olympics, the city has been pouring millions into constructing new buildings. Now it's considered a hot spot for modern architecture, but some fear its new look is undermining thousands of years of history.

Role: multimedia producer.

Vermonters Fight for High-Speed Internet (WSJ.com/March 2009)
Slow Internet service is pushing a consortium of small business owners and residents in rural Vermont to ask the government for funding for a fiber-optic broadband network.

Role: multimedia producer.



Hong Kong Uncorks Wine Trade
(WSJ.com/Dec. 3, 2009)
Gregory De'Eb owns a popular wine cellar housed in a former World War II bunker. He talks about Hong Kong's thriving wine trade and the city's prospects of becoming the world's next wine capital.

Role: multimedia producer.



Colbert for President
(WSJ.com/November 2008)
All eyes may be on the race between Obama and McCain, but in the Marvel Comics universe there's a third presidential candidate: Stephen Colbert

Role: reporter and multimedia producer.



VIDEO PROFILES

An Investment Worth Making: China's Housing Market
(WSJ.com/May 2010)
Zhang Yuchong, a real-estate investor, has bought and sold hundreds of apartments in China for a profit. He tells his story about how he got into it.

Role: reporter and multimedia producer.





Second Careers
(Feb. 24, 2010)
Project management, flash production and video reporting for a multimedia project for the Wall Street Journal.

Role: reporter and multimedia producer.

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PERSONAL PROJECTS

Bluffing (February 28, 2010)
A short film written and produced for the "Unprotected" screening presented by the Filmshop at the Music Hall of Williamsbug in New York and at Joyce Is Not Here and the Speak Up! event in Hong Kong. Intended as a parody on gangster genre films and the idea of status, worth and image.

Retracing Saigon - Memories of a Family (in production)
Trailer to a personal documentary project looking at the history of Vietnam through the stories of my family.


Behind the Door - A Mockumentary about Robert Seng's "Knock Knock" Mural
(August 2009)
A mockumentary shown at the Moviehouse screening series. Commissioned by the event and produced in collaboration with 14-year-old Josh Carrero as part of the India Street Mural project in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Peru Travel Log (Mar. 15, 2009)
Stop-motion travel log of travels in Lima, Cusco and Machu Picchu, Peru.