As Producer
Lunch Break Fridays #5: TRAVIS JAPAN Teaches You Japanese (Special Edition)
On this special edition of Lunch Break Friday, Travis Japan, up-and-coming Johnny & Associates J-Pop sensation, teaches Jess useful and sometimes hilarious Japanese words and phrases. We got to speak to Travis Japan shortly before their international debut single with Capitol Records “JUST DANCE,” which released on October 28, 2022.
Produced and hosted by Jess, this video is Enstarz’s fastest growing video, amassing 32K views within 24 hours.
Please Help (2022)
An eight-episode mockumentary web series about four entertainment writers tasked to raise their YouTube subscriber count to 5,000. Hilarity ensues.
Written with Adam Mock, Carly Polistina & Melanie Weir
Catch Please Help at:
Won: Best Mockumentary
Pride & Prejudice (2022)
A live virtual performance of Kaela Mei-Shing Garvin’s Pride & Prejudice directed by Jessica W. Chen and featuring thirteen cast members Zooming from all over the world – A Re-Casting the Movies x The Community Cooperative joint venture.
March 12th @ 6:00 pm EST
Drama High (2021)
A working class girl capitalizes on her knowledge of popular Asian dramas tropes to climb the social ladder at her new elite school – essentially a love letter to Asian drama re-imagined with Asian American diaspora.
Catch the Drama High pilot at:
Mixed Asian Media Fest (Sep. 15-19, 2021)
Imagine This Women’s Film Festival (Sep. 24-Oct. 3, 2021)
FirstGlance Film Festival (Oct. 15-17, 2021)
Won: Best Director
Won: Best Ensemble Cast
NYC Web Fest (Nov. 12-14, 2021)
Asian American Film Thing! (Nov. 16, 2021)
London Lift-Off Film Festival (Dec. 6, 2021-Jan. 3, 2022)
YouFilmFest (April 2, 2022)
Won: Best Series Pilot
Austin Lift-Off Film Festival (April 5-May 2, 2022)
Tokyo Lift-Off Film Festival (May 2-May 30, 2022)
Lighthouse International Film Festival (June 2-June 5, 2022)
Los Angeles Lift-Off Film Festival (Sep. 5-Oct 3, 2022)
NomadTV Film Festival (Oct. 28-Dec. 30, 2022)
Frankenstein (2021)
A live virtual performance of Alexander Utz’s Frankenstein directed by Abigail Olshin and featuring fourteen cast members – A Re-Casting the Movies x The Community Cooperative joint venture.
May 22nd @ 8:00 pm EST
A Christmas Carol (2020)
A live virtual table read of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol featuring eleven cast members – A Re-Casting the Movies x The Community Cooperative joint venture.
Unseen Love (2020)
A girl goes on a date with a man with a strange secret – 2020 72 Film Fest entry.
Existential Crisis Club (2021)
Four 20-somethings grapple with the crushing existential dread of having life together by age 30 – all while planning an alcoholic bubble tea bar's opening.
Post-Production
Little Swimmers (2019)
A lesbian couple seeks aid from an unlikely source when attempting to conceive a child – 2019 Taipei 48 Hour Film Project entry.
Monologue for the Third Culture Kid (2017)
A lost Taiwanese American woman on the verge of adulthood travels throughout Taipei to find a place she can call home – 2018 HBO APA Visionaries Short Film Competition entry.