A) HONORS
Finalist - Paramount Viacom ViewFinder Director's Program 2019
Pre-Selection - Hubert Bals Fund Bright Future Script Development Fund 2019
The Airplane - Coverfly Red List - One of the top fantasy short scripts of the year
Semifinalist - Screencraft Film Fund Fall 2018
Fellow - Armed With a Camera Fellowship 2017/2018. (Visual Communications is supported by Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences)
The Blind Ride - second round at Sundance Screenwriting Labs 2017/2018
Finalist - Project Greenlight Filmmaking Competition 2016
Filmmakers to Watch - Cinephilia & Beyond, 2015
The Order of Areté, USC - 2016
Frank Sinatra Film Fellow, USC – 2015/2016
Jack Oakey Award for Comedy, USC – 2014/2015
Dana & Albert Broccoli Foundation Award, USC – 2013/2014
B) FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS
100 Days of Smoke Free – Comcast's Xfinity-on-Demand 2019
The Cartoonist – Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival 2018; Comcast's Xfinity-on-Demand 2019
Psycho PSA – Featured on Best Ads on TV, Ads of the World, Shots Magazine, Coloribus and Culture Pub.
My Claire – Amazon's All Voices Film Festival 2019; Drama International Short Film Festival 2016; Short Film Corner at Cannes Film Festival 2016; Masters Award in Student Film, Julien Dubuque International Film Festival 2016; Berkeley Video & Film Festival 2016; Toronto Nepali Film Festival 2017, Nepal-America International Film Festival 2017
Being Kicked – Tripoli Film Festival 2016; Durban International Film Festival 2016; Long Take Florence Film Festival 2016
The Dishwasher – Toronto Nepali Film Festival 2016; Trojan Film Festival 2016; MoFilm LA Movie Jam 2016
C) UPCOMING PROJECTS
-----------------AS DIRECTOR----------------------
-- CAMERA SHY - 2020, Comedy - in development
-- OH MY DOG - 2020, Comedy, Feature Mockumentary - in development
-- THE DOOR - 2021. Fantasy, Comedy Feature - In development.
-- THE AIRPLANE - 2020. Fantasy, Comedy - In development.
-- THE DEVIL INSIDE ME - 2019. Dark Comedy Mockumentary - In development.
-----------------AS WRITER-------------------------
-- CAMERA SHY - 2020, Comedy - in development
-- OH MY DOG - 2021, Comedy, Feature Mockumentary - in development
-- SANGAM (aka LOST & FOUND) - 2020 (Prod. Company - Dancing Atom Films). Drama Feature - In development.
-- THE DOOR - 2021. Fantasy, Comedy Feature - In development.
-- HELIUM - 2020 (L'ouest Studios). Animation Fantasy Short - In post-production.
-- YOU ARE NEVER HERE - 2019 (Dir. Vishnu Perumal). Comedy Short. Production completed in Los Angeles.
-- HAPPY ENDING - 2019 (Dir. Christina Jun). Fantasy Comedy Short. Production completed in Shanghai, China.
-- THE SALESMEN - 2020 (Prod. Company - Wyldside Media). Drama Feature. In development.
D) RECENT NEWS
-- June 2019 - My Claire on Amazon's All Voices Film Festival 2019. Available on Amazon Prime.
-- May 2019 - The Dishwasher on Viddsee.com, where you can see the best curated Asian short films. Link here.
-- February 2019 - The Airplane screenplay rated one of this year's top on Red List on Coverfly.
-- January 2019 - Semifinalist in Screencraft Film Fund.
-- January 2019 - A video I directed at BuzzFeed featured on msn.com. Link here.
-- October 2018 - Featured on University of Southern California's Daily Trojan.
-- July 2018 - Featured on Shots Magazine.
-- July 2018 - Featured on VoyageLA.
-- June 2018 - Featured on MeriNews.
-- June 2018 - Featured on Medium.
-- April 2018 - Featured on UCI Fandoms, the University of California - Irvine newspaper.
-- April 2018 - Gave talk on Creativity at University of California - Los Angeles & University of California - Irvine.
-- February 2018 - Directed The Cartoonist at Armed With a Camera Fellowship for emerging Asian American Media Artists.
-- November 2016 - Directed a music video concept for Project Greenlight's music video competition for Plain White T's.
-- January 2016 - Featured on Frontline Views.
-- December 2015 - Featured on The Crazy Mind.
-- September 2015 - Featured on Cinephilia & Beyond.
