Projects pitching
Collections of passionate narrative project written and created by myself, hoping to share a glimpse of my inner landscape, longing to transcend, for the unseen world to come alive.
Prologue
I’m hypnotize by the phenomena magic of cinema experience as a form of self expression; what it’s like to live as an ordinary human within the confining space and time. My desire subject of discussion includes philosophically existential topic as well as spirituality; a deeper contemplation on life’s meaning and the nature of consciousness. Social Satire addressing worldly issue such as puberty, feminism, anti-capitalism. Poetic cinema about loneliness and mortality, gatekeeping past memories that creates melancholic ambiance, and through my eastern cultural background, enriches exotic atmospheric texture, transforming seemingly mundane moment into profound explorations of the so called “Self”.
12 Twelve
LOG LINE
Nang, a deaf thirteen years old, youngest sister of twelve, is born into a primitive Manohra medium family, who lives for many generations deep in the forest of Southern Thailand, but now is challenged with modern day stigma of voodoo practice. After her grandmother’s death, Nang has to choose between inheriting the family's dying sacred tradition by become the Monohra shaman and save the family, or saving herself by run away for a more promising future in Bangkok.
PROJECT #1
Nang, a deaf thirteen years old girl, was born into a primitive Manohra medium family amongst her eleven older sisters, pursuing their livelihood deep in the forest of Southern Thailand. Nang’s near death grandmother, who’s the current Manohra Shaman, forces her to inherit the family’s dying sacred tradition and become the next Manohra after she pass away. However, faith in Manohra medium has begun to collapse, due to the growth of modernization valuing capitalistic life style, declining belief in religions and supernatural occurrence. Leaving the family to become scarce of income. Only one decision has to be made by Nang; to stay and accept her ill fate of becoming the next Manohra Shaman to help her family out of financial turmoil, or run away for a more promising future in Bangkok for her own free view.
Feature Length Narrative
Genre : Absurdist Surrealism
Project #2
Logline
At the end of draught season and the beginning of rain, up on a mountain in northern Thailand, a homeless man discovers “The Viewpoint” while taking a leak. Through thick bushes of a hillside jungle he’s awestruck by the majestic view of nature gold shower sunrise, and cries out a single tear of enlightenment. Suddenly “The Viewpoint” becomes populated with tourists traveling from all walk of life just to queue up and cry that single drop of enlightenment tears seeing the view. “The Viewpoint” is then commercialize, never the same again until the next draught comes.
VIEWPOINT
“The film Viewpoint explores the themes of time, impermanence, and human experience through the metaphor of a mountain landscape. It serves as a backdrop for the characters' personal transformations as they ascend to the summit, where they are confronted with the fleeting beauty of their surroundings. This setting symbolizes a transitory state, inviting viewers to reflect on their own existence and the nature of reality. Viewpoint is not merely a visual journey but an invitation to engage with profound existential questions, making it a significant exploration of human consciousness and the ephemeral nature of existence.”
BANMI
PROJECT #3
Format: Feature Narrative
Genre : Coming of age, Drama
Logline
Set in 1995, a 5 years old girl and her family from Bangkok visits her sick grandparents at her mother’s hometown called “Banmi” Lopburi, due to the grandparent’s declining health. Grandpa is recovering from a stroke and lost of speech and grandma is half paralyzes from the leg down, the girl is often left alone as her mother prioritized taking care of her handicap parents. Gaining freedom at the age of 5, she slowly uncover reality, although sometime harsh, about the town, herself, and her family, growing up lessons that couldn’t be learn in Bangkok.
Banmi story is my little time capsule that with hold all my fond memories of life, how happiness could be easily experience organically and sadness too. A childhood flashback of my mother’s hometown, a tiny town in Lopburi called “Banmi”, where she grew up in with my grandpa and grandma first generation Chinese immigrant from rural Southern part of china. Recalling these memories, I see life flashes through my mother’s eyes, having to be the oldest daughter of the family and the only one taking care of both my grandparents declining heath. Hoping to capture relationship dynamics in my family and examine an expected life of a female house wife, through my grandmother, my mother, and my 5 years old self.
PROJECT #4
Await
Set in a rural town in Thailand, Await tells the story of a lonely and depressed man who discovers that whenever he is on the brink of death, he sees a gorgeous woman who is a ghost. He and this ghost form a bond that leads from friendship to something more, but at what cost?
Tum is a 39 year old sci-fi movie writer, a visibly depressed broken man who’s stuck writing Thai soap operas and gay series. He’s an extreme introvert and has a self-centered view about the world. He grew up poor raised by a single mother, who passed away a year ago. Her passing set him off into his darkest depression. He tried committing suicide on a regular bases unsuccessfully, which caused him to lose his job and long term girl-friend. Tum, who’s in a downward spiral, is waiting for someone to fill in his void, and lift his pain away, like what his dead mother always did for him.
One day Tum sleep-drives along a damp road after drinking and taking pills. He jolts up after hitting a bump on the road. Tum, injured from breaking instantly, goes out to investigate and discovers blood on the front of the car. He freaks out and tries to drive away, but the car won’t start. Tum runs to the nearby town to ask for help. There, he finds an old Thai-Chinese lady who works at a convenience store. She helps drive him back to the site of the crash and calls insurance for him. At the site of the crash, Tum is shocked to discover that there’s no blood in his car. Later, while Tum is at an old clinic in the town getting his wounds looked at, he receives a call telling him that his car would take an entire week to fix. On his way out of the clinic, he catches the attention of a beautiful nurse. The old lady who helped him out earlier tells Tum that he can stay at one of her vacant houses. Later that evening, Tum heads to the local convenience store from before and buys some basic necessities, which to him are liquor, cigarettes, and painkillers. He also purchases a rope. At the house, Tum shuts off the phone, drinks some liquor, then brings out the rope he bought from earlier and hangs himself with it. As Tum starts feeling the life fade out of him, he notices a gorgeous woman.
The very moment he sees her, he halts his suicide attempt and puts the noose away. For some reason, he is highly drawn to this woman. The looks at him with a neutral expression, then walks away. He follows her to the door he’s tried to fix since he moved into the house. She fixes the door, but says nothing, then disappears. Confused, yet intrigued, Tum starts searching for the identity of the mysterious woman around the town. Unfortunately, nobody recognizes her at all. Tum realizes that the reason he saw the woman was because he was on the brink of death. Back in his rented house, he tries to hurt himself again just to see her, and attempts to communicate with her further. She shows up, but is still hesitant to talk to him. He is persistent, and she finally responds to him as they both begin their strange relationship.
FEATURE NARRATIVE
GENRE : ROMANCE, DRAMA, HORROR
PROJECT #5
I HATE EVERYBODY
A story about a single 29 years old women who suffers from an existential life crisis a day before her 30th birthday. She hates everything and everyone, including herself, and life is no longer enjoyable. Her own tough mother look down on her, thinks she’s some kind of psychotic loser that can’t handle life. With no support system, she then spend the whole movie trying to get her old loving self back and shake this phrase away, but it kept on sticking as she discovers that there is another voice, a depressed low husky smoker voice, had already been growing inside her head.
A film about my depression stage in my early 30s, where life is not lived according to societal norm. The film will express what it’s like being born as a GEN Y in 20st century modern days with expectations from baby boomers but a slum of world economy. The film is initially about someone trying desperately to be happy but they are just not, all they are left with is just their own self and a conversation with their own thoughts, and the randomness of life.
Depression can’t be magically cure, but could be understood.
FEATURE NARRATIVE
SATIRE, DARK COMEDY
TINDER GOLD CLUB
“In the world full of divorcee, unreciprocated love, fuck boy, and pedophile,
TINDER GOLD has become the go to outlet for the single rich to meet one of their own kind.
What will one risk to get what they deeply desire? At what cost even just for one night ?“
PROJECT #6
Tinder Gold Club tells a story about 30 something, successful ad agency copy writer name Sam, who spiral out of control when she gets back to using dating app. The story takes place within the night of Sam’s 34th birthday, where her group of long-time friends kidnaps her from her house to go celebrate her birthday at a private party downtown. Sam had been single for over five years, her friends try to hook her up with guys in the club, but the scene is too boring. The group snorts a few lines of cocaine and download tinder gold on Sam’s phone as a birthday present. She matches with this guy name John, 40 years old crypto trader, who just moved from Silicone Vally. He has a house up on the Hollywood hills, like a new young money, and invites her and her friends over. The group decides to show up and discovers that it’s a multi-million dollars home. John welcomes them inside and get them situated with unlimited drugs and alcohol in his newly brought empty house. All of them are interested in John, where each person tries make a pass on him but one gone wrong. Sam’s friend ends up killing his beloved dog. The group found out and decides to throws the dead dog out the bathroom window, it landed behind a bush in John’s garden.
Then the night goes on surprisingly smooth, everyone gets a piece of the rich man but up until John couldn’t find his dog and starting to become worried. While the crew becomes suspicious of John being an illegal wanted drug lord, John starts suspected them of stealing his dog. Right when he discovers his beloved dog’s body Sam pushes him off the forth floor balcony. He hits the ground and die holding his dead dog. The door bell rings, it’s John’s hot friends Marcus who John called into join the party earlier. The gang has to clean up, hides evidences, and escape out of the house untouched. As the gang fights and argues, secrets come up. This might not be the first time that they’re in a pickle together.