I was born in Houston TX and raised by a truck driver and nurse manager yet somehow, I ended up a filmmaker. Starting out as a visual artist (drawing X-Men comic book and Simpson’s characters frequently), I soon found that what I was truly drawn to wasn’t just the visuals, but the stories that were told with them.  After taking my lyrical approach from poetry/songwriting from my synonymous love for music (musician for 15 plus years) and transferring it to films while overly indulging in splicing together random footage that I shot on a crappy VHS camera I discovered something effective and fulfilling, producing writing and directing films.
Since then, I can humbly say that I’ve produced, written, and directed a number of scripts and short films as well as getting a BFA in Filmmaking. My most recent film “Two Priests in A Restaurant” was a finalist for Best Texas Short in Denton Black Film Festival 2019.

I know, I’m kind of a big deal right!?

I was born in Los Angeles, CA in 1978 – the same day that a computer programmer named Fred Newman set the world record for most consecutive basketball free throws made while blindfolded (88 free throws to be exact). My parents, immigrants from Korea, moved to Houston, TX when I was but a year old. For the last 22 years, I’ve called Austin my home. My experiences as a Korean-American boy raised in mostly white communities deeply influence me as a writer and a filmmaker.

My modern-fantasy pilot screenplay for The West Moon Chronicle won 2nd place at the Script2Comic Screenplay Competition in 2020. I’ve directed a comedy-horror short film called The Obliviousness of Cristine that premiered at the Alamo Drafthouse in April of 2021. I also wrote, acted in, and co-edited a Dungeons & Dragons webseries called Heroes & Halfwits for Rooster Teeth Productions from 2016 to 2018. I am a SAG-eligible actor repped by Acclaim Talent Agency in Austin.

Raised in Indiana I moved down to Austin, TX as I had a calling for filmmaking, and after visiting I got to see the independent spirit of the town. I felt like it would fit me best with the type of stories I wanted to tell. Once there I hit the ground running. Starting off as a production assistant and moving on to getting into producing, directing & writing. I enjoy telling stories within a variety of genres: from personal human condition, to comedy, drama, thriller and spiritual films. In 2014 I produced the feature film Meet Me There (feat. WWE superstar Dustin Reynolds).

Over the past several years I’ve gotten into the camera department, working as a 1st AC, camera operator and director of photography. In 2020 I was co-producer/DP on the web series Undergraduated.