Selected Assistant Editing Works
Free for All: The Public Library (2025)
Free for All: The Public Library tells the story of the quiet revolutionaries who made a simple idea happen. From the pioneering women behind the “Free Library Movement” to today's librarians who service the public despite working in a contentious age of closures and book bans, meet those who created a civic institution where everything is free and the doors are open to all.
Director: Dawn Logsdon and Lucie Faulknor
Auntie Sewing Squad (2025, in-production)
This documentary focuses on a national network of hundreds of volunteers who organized from home during the COVID-19 crisis, sewing and donating cloth face masks to protect vulnerable communities from COVID-19.
Director: Valerie Soe
Excerpt of Radical Care: The Auntie Sewing Squad (2021)
From Here/From There (De Aquí/De Allá) (2024)
A landmark Supreme Court case puts DACA—and one undocumented lawyer's fight for his community—at the center of history.
Director: Marlene “Mo” Morris
Selected Editing Works
Final Fight (2023)
Final Fight: When the Trauma of War Comes Home explores the impact of combat trauma and military sexual assault within the U.S. Armed Forces, highlighting the largely unknown connection between Post Traumatic Stress (PTS) and undiagnosed brain trauma - a leading cause of the tragic suicide epidemic in the military.
The film features intimate interviews with a diverse group of veterans and inspiring stories of survival. Leading experts in the field of PTS therapy and brain science offer hope and answers to the veterans profiled in the film, and to the family and friends who love them.
Director: Frances Causey
Co-Editor: Dawn Logsdon & Diana Chen
Pass It On Ep 2: Building Momentum
Featuring AAWAA artists Lydia Nakashima Degarrod, Nancy Hom, and Lenore Chinn as they recount the organization's transitions in the early 2000s from artist-run collective to officially gaining 501(c)(3) nonprofit status in 2007. Hear their first-person accounts layered with visuals from AAWAA's archival materials about how community members grappled with this next chapter in the organization's history and what it meant for artists to continue building its legacy into the future.
Editor: Diana Chen
Pass It On (2022-)
A new initiative to capture oral histories of AAWAA’s members to add to AAWAA’s archives. The purpose of this initiative is to create a space that encourages a variety of members in our community to engage in meaningful dialogues and to record these conversations over time to build a collective portrait of AAWAA. This program is our effort to steward the long-term representation of the artistic and cultural work of AAPI women artists and legitimize the value of these experiences and hxstories.
Pass It On Ep 2 trailer
Pass It On Ep 1: Birth of A Movement
Historic roundtable discussion featuring artist Kim Anno with AAWAA co-founders Betty Nobue Kano and Flo Oy Wong as they recount the founding and early days of Asian American Women Artists Association, the nation’s only nonprofit serving AAPI women in the arts. Featuring little known stories and archival materials, see the trials, tribulations, and joy it took to create a small artist-run group that would forever change the scene for contemporary art and artists in America.
This first episode is dedicated in memory of our late co-founder, Moira Roth, and all pioneering Asian American women artists who have passed such as Ruth Asawa, Bernice Bing, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Hisako Hibi, Vanessa Ng, and Hung Liu.
Editor: Diana Chen
Pass It On Ep 1 trailer
Legacy & Lineage (2020)
APICC presents Legacy and Lineage, a series of short films profiling the unique journeys of 5 Asian American community artists - Sammay Dizon, Genny Lim, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud, Sami See, Francis Wong - whose works consistently place community at the center. The films explore the reasons that drive these outstanding artists and legacies that may point to the direction of the future of Asian American artists in San Francisco.
Legacy & Lineage: Genny Lim
"When you have that power, that ability other people don’t have, it’s how you use your authority and your power that counts. It’s not that you have it. It’s what you do with it." From broadcast journalism to creative writing, Genny discusses the power of poetry and art to speak truth and transform systems.
Producer/Director: Laura Priscilla Paule
Editor: Diana Chen
Legacy & Lineage: Isabelle Thuy Pelaud
"That was one thing I always aspired to do: to write my family's story...I didn't think about becoming an artist. I just did." Since the age of 10, Isabelle Thuy Pelaud wanted to write and tell stories. Now, she's a professor in Asian American Studies and Founder of the Diasporic Vietnamese Artists Network (DVAN). Witness her journey in the latest film of the Legacy & Lineage series.
Producer/Director: Laura Priscilla Paule
Editor: Diana Chen