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RESIDENCY (2023)

Feature Length Supernatural Docu-Horror
& Multichannel Installation 
Now in festivals and exhibitions
Official Website here

Co-Writer
Director
Co-Producer
Co-Editor 2024  DCTV New York
2023  IFFR, Rotterdam, NL
2023  SXSW, Sydney, Australia
2023  Scope Art Show,  Miami, USA
2023  Motel X, Lisboa, Portugal
2023  Halifax Independent FF, Halifax, Canada
2023  Monsters Horror Festival, Torino, Italy
2022  Untitled Art Fair, Miami , USA
 Filmed during an interdisciplinary artist residency hosted by The Locker Room, a Brooklyn based underground art space, filmmaker Winnie Cheung taps into the ethos of DIY cinema, leveraging the gallery as the set and her cohort of artists as performers. Residency boldly redefines the legacy of Kenneth Anger, the Cinema of Transgression and No Wave Cinema. The film is a love letter that taps into the frenzied emotional psychogeography of New York City where the narrative structure is deliberately fragmented, creating an immersive experience that mirrors the unattainable nature of memory. What if Warhol made a horror film about life at The Factory?

"resurrects the collective spirit that once defined New York City’s artistic ecosystem, yet the zombified venture spirals into derangement as the film shifts into the mode of funhouse horror"

Artforum

"RESIDENCY is part of the North American new wave of indie micro-budget genre features"

Variety


"a concise and concentrated evil diamond of a feature debut"

Rebecca Falvey










WOODLANDS DARK & DAYS BEWITCHED (2021)

Feature Length Essay Documentary
Now streaming on SHUDDER
Official Website here

Co-Producer
Co-Editor with Benjamin Shearn
Sound Design

Directed by Kier-La Janisse
Produced by Severin Films 2021  SXSW – Midnighters Audience Award
2021  Fantasia International Film Festival – Best Documentary
2021  Nashville Film Festival – Best Graveyard Shift Feature
2021  Chattanooga Film Festival – Best Documentary
2021  Popcorn Frights – Audience Award
2021  Letterboxd – 5th highest-rated documentary
2021  Seattle Film Critics Society – Nominated, Best Documentary

 Explore the rural roots, occult creeds and cultural lore that continue to shape international cinema. From writer/director/co-producer Kier-La Janisse comes "a seductive mega-text" (Indiewire) through the history of folk horror, featuring clips from over 200 films and interviews with more than 50 filmmakers, authors and scholars. Severin Films presents this "astounding achievement" (Screen Anarchy) that Rue Morgue calls "an unprecedented journey into where folk horror has been, where it's going and ultimately what it says about humanity."

A SHUDDER EXCLUSIVE



"Everything you always wanted to know about pagan blood sacrifices and the lingering psychic traumas of colonialism (but were afraid to discover for yourself)"

- IndieWire

"worth every geeky minute"

- The Guardian


"A must for fantasy-fest and midnight-section programmers"

- Variety








ALBATROSS SOUP (2018)

Animated Thriller Short

Writer
Director
Co-Producer
Co-Editor 2018 Sundance Hong Kong
2018 Fantasia International Film Festival
2018 Fantastic Fest
2019 Sundance
2019 GLAS Animation 2019
2019 Animation Party Block

Winner Vimeo Animation of the Year
Winner Short of the Week - Short of the Year A man walks off a boat. He walks into a restaurant, orders albatross soup, takes a sip of the soup, pulls out a gun, and kills himself. So... why did he kill himself?

Read more about it on
 The Vimeo Blog
Short of the Week
Animation World Network


"a wickedly entertaining film"

- Vimeo


"a masterclass of documentary technique"

- Short of the Week

"excellently executed mix of visual whimsy and gallows humour"

- Aeon Magazine









LAST CALL
An acid folk thriller

Co-Writer with Andujar Twins
Director
Co-Producer
Editor
 2023 NFMLA NewNarratives Grant Winner
2022 Future of Film is Female Finalist

Made in support by
4A Arts Centre for Asian Contemporary Art
Planet X Studios
Meerkat Media
 A fast riding motorcycle rebel indulges in her worst vices to avoid confrontation with a mysterious serpent woman who taps into her most grotesque fantasies.

Read more about it on
Deadline
Women and Hollywood
Nightmare on Film Street
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BLACK MARKET WITH MICHAEL K WILLIAMS
SEASON 02 (2022)

Half Hour Non-Scripted Episodic
Now Available onHulu
andApple TV


Episodic Director
Producer
Story Producer
Editor
 When the System Fails You, You Create Your Own System

Black Market was the first TV projected that I directed and one of the last projects that Michael K Williams worked on. He championed for the stories of oppressed and for the people who told them. His legacy continues in his work.




 By 2025, two thirds of the world will face extreme water stress. Already, we see black markets for fresh water in places like India, Pakistan and Mexico. Meanwhile in the United States, Wall Street takes bets on water stocks or “liquid gold” as Detroit and California shuts off its fresh water supply.

We travel to California, Mexico City and San Isidro, Puerto Rico for a critical look into what black market means. and who gets to deem it “water theft” in a colonized state?

RESOURCES


Ranking the World’s Most Water-Stressed Countries in 2040 - World Resources Institute
Infrastructure in America - Adriana Garriga-López
Two Years After Maria, Relief Funds Promise Displacement for the Hardest-Hit Puerto Ricans - The Intercept

California regulators order Arrowhead bottled water to stop drawing from some mountain springs


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MR. WASH PRESENTED
BY WETRANSFER

20 min short doc

Story Producer
Editor

Directed by Sean Mattison & Marisa Aveling Prison has a lots of politics. Art was a neutral zone

Sentenced to life in prison for a minor drug offence, Fulton Leroy Washington turned to painting as a means of expressing himself during his 21 years behind bars. Then, thanks to Barack Obama, he was free. This is his story.


Despite the nightmare of his two decades in federal custody – accused of a non-violent drug crime, assured of his innocence and sentenced to die in prison under draconian drugs laws – Wash’s creative skill is the film’s impelling peculiarity. His circumstances are ordinary, his talent is not.
The politics of prison are behind him, but the politics of life as a professional artist are a new hurdle. “I’d love to meet other artists and find out what’s going on out here,” he says. “I’m learning a lot about art politics on a day-to-day basis. This is all new to me.”

Vimeo Staff Pick
Webby Award Winner
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival 2019
Original Thinkers 2019
Flathead Lake International Cinemafest 2019
Picture Farm Film Festival 2019

RESOURCES


The President’s Role in Advancing the Criminal Justice Reform - Barack Obama
American’s With Criminal Records - The Sentencing Project



IN THE HABIT OF HIDING
Multi-channel experimental film
a messy meditation on deliberate self sabotage

Co-Director with Elena Vazintaris
Producer
Editor
 As female artists, chasing the idea of perfection often stifles our ability to react instinctively. We make excuses and manipulate ourselves into believing that we’re not capable. We want to show how torturous it is to obsessively pursue the unbelievably high standards that we often set for ourselves.

“In the Habit of Hiding” is a moving portrait capturing the inner dialogue of self sabotage while simultaneously grappling with a collective anxiety over the state of the external world.  Overcoming the mundane to motivate oneself into existence feels like a slow, endless climb through a tub of molasses. In the Habit of Hiding is the proud Silver Award winner of the Ciclope Awards (“Weird Shxt” Category) and premiered at Luminato Festival Toronto on June 9, 2022







WHAT IF
A fashion dance film

Director
Producer
Editor
 When does a story become a myth? Is it just the matter of time? This dance film considers a gender-free beginning.   Featured on
Schön! Magazine
The Advocate

Sound of Silent Film Festival New York, NY
Out on Film Dance Films Association
BAAD! Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance

Jerome Foundation 2017 Film and Digital Video Grantee
Roy Dean Film Grant Spring 2017 Top 20 Finalist




HERESY
An experimental short shot on Super 8
featuring Rose McGowan
Editor

Directed by Marlene Marino
 Rose was born into the Catholic cult the Children of God, her father led the Italian chapter. This, coupled with her outspoken nature and self-assuredness, informed the idea of heresy.

Joan was charged with cross-dressing, the only thing that they could pin on her, only done to avoid being molested in prison and on the battlefield.