About your Film Career to date:

I still remember the night I watched Yi Yi (2000) by Edward Yang during the pandemic. At the time, I was working at a bank, living a stable, structured life. But that film shook me with one loud, haunting question: What do you want in life? The question lingered for months, quietly unsettling everything I thought I had figured out. Yi Yi wasn’t just a cinematic masterpiece, it became a turning point. It sparked the decision to leave behind security and step into the unknown world of filmmaking at the age of 30. Growing up, I had always loved watching films, binging weekend marathons while my parents slept. But cinema felt distant, like a world reserved for others. Telling stories on screen, working with actors, screening films to audience, all of it seemed out of reach. After the events of 2019, many from Hong Kong, including myself, left home in search of a place to speak freely. I moved to Spain, started from scratch, and shot a documentary about Chinese immigrants. No budget, no connections—just a camera, some YouTube tutorials, and the urge to understand what it means to be uprooted. That film, Move, later screened at Spanish festivals like NIFF Navarra and was picked up by the cinephile streaming platform FILMIN. In 2023, I took another leap and was lucky to be accepted into the London Film School. There, I discovered filmmakers I hadn’t known before—Andrea Arnold, the Dardenne brothers, Sean Baker, whose social realist works reminded me that powerful stories can live in small moments, in people we pass by every day.

What challenges have you faced? How have you overcome them?

Failure after failure, self-doubting my ability. But the thing is, the time I failed is more than many people they tried.

What are your career ambitions? What is your plan to get there?

If a story makes someone pause, reflect, or reconsider their life and relationships, then it is something that I would like to do.

What tips and advice do you have for those also on a similar journey trying to establish their film careers?

I still remember Ken Loach’s words during a school masterclass: “Don’t isolate yourself. Find your team. Some collaborations will work, some won’t. But keep searching, because filmmaking is a marathon, not a sprint.”