When I worked at ad agencies, I wrote ads, headlines, commercials. For docs, I wrote the voiceover narration and prepared interview questions. I developed story structure from raw material and wrote pick-up lines for talent on reality shows. I have the versatility to write in a range of voices across an even more diverse collection of formats.
Of course I also spent my fair share of time at various cafes, coffeehouses and boba shops writing my own features, pilots and shorts. One feature, “The Mou Yongers Avenge Vincent Chin” was recognized by the prestigious Nicholl Fellowship and the Austin Film Festival
Here’s a collection of writing projects that are the results of all that caffeine and sugar.
CARDED
LOGLINE: When a nerdy MIT-bound teen uses a fake ID at an underground club, she discovers the ID belongs to someone the gangster owners desperately want to find – and now she’s their target.
Now she must outsmart the bad guys and crooked cops to find the real person on the ID and clear her name.
GENRE: Action/Thriller
COMPS: The Bourne Identity
COFFEHOUSE/DRINK: Starbucks at UCLA, Grande Coffee with half and half
LA FEMME BOHEME
LOGLINE: Inspired by Puccini’s “La Boheme,” four women at a secret femme fatale academy – a clumsy weapons expert, a brilliant hacker, an emotionally volatile seductress, and a mischievous farting ninja – compete in dangerous training missions to earn spots in the elite “F.D.V.” organization. Expect musical set piece and snarky dialog.
GENRE: Musical,Dark Comedy
COMPS: K-Pop Demon Hunter
COFFEHOUSE/DRINK: Coral Tree Cafe (Brentwood), Banana Latte
KEEP THE FART GO SOIL YOURSELF
LOGLINE: Asian immigrants who also happen to be mythical creatures forge an unlikely alliance to navigate the wildest and most unpredictable realm in the universe – America! The ttitle refers to a Korean idiom.
GENRE: Dark Comedy Satire COMPS: What We do in Shadows
COFFEHOUSE/DRINK: Sul and Beans (K-town Los Angeles), Strawberry Matcha Tea with Boba
BITTER LIPSTICK: WHERE’S PABLO?
LOGLINE: A bragging lothario wakes up to discover someone has surgically swapped his penis with a dog’s, launching a bizarre Texas road trip filled with religious fanatics, vengeful exes, and increasingly ridiculous obstacles to get his manhood back.
GENRE: Action/Thriller/Dark
COMPS: Freaky Friday, Big
COFFEHOUSE/DRINK: Opa Cafe (Austin, Texas), Iced Coffee with Oat Milk