Resources Support Guide
For Artmaking, Filmmaking & Solidarity Work

The filmmaking and the mutual aiding go hand in hand. Here’s a living document of resources that I’ve made and collected over the years. Last Updated 26-09-2024 Shoot me an email with additional requests.

Personal Projects

ALBATROSS SOUP (2019)

Written Treatment- A short and focused description of what I wanted to make and how I would make it.
Timeline - The whole process took three years, but most of it went towards development and funding. Once Fiona Smyth and Masayoshi Nakamura were on board, we followed this timeline. Everybody worked on their own time and treated this as a passion project.
Visual Treatment - What I put together to get more people on board. This included additional animators, a co-editor, colorist and executive producers.

Preliminary Sketches from illustrator/animator Masayoshi Nakamura
Visual Script - A tracker sheet that was used once we had all the scenes sketched out
Festival Sheet - Where we submitted, where we got into, where we didn’t, how much it all cost
Press Kit - What was sent to festivals and press once we got our world premiere

RESIDENCY (2023)

Visual Pitch Deck - before my residency started, I sketched out broadstroke story arcs and aesthetics - referencing a mix of documentary, experimental and horror films.

Applications

I apply to many residencies, grants & opportunities.
The following are a few instances where my efforts yielded success amongst the
m a n y r e j e c t i o n s

爻 yáo collaborative Digital Diasporas (2023)

NFMLA New Narratives (2023)

External Visual Arts & Filmmaking Resources

ANALOG/EXPERIMENTAL

Recipes for Disaster A hand drawn recipe book for analog, experimental film

NARRATIVE

The Team Deakins podcast is an ongoing conversation between acclaimed cinematographer Roger Deakins and James Deakins, his collaborator, about cinematography, the film business and whatever other questions are submitted.

COMMERCIAL/MUSIC VIDEO

Eye Candy Visual Technique Library

How to Pitch on Music Videos by We Direct Music Videos

Winning Commercial Treatments by Photographer & Filmmaker Cam Roberts

On Running Creative Treatment Deck for i-D Magazine by me

Solidarity & Media Based Guides

What is Juneteenth

Meerkat Media Cooperative & Artist Collective: Palestinian In Solidarity, Resources & Support Guide

Collaborators

Andujar Twins - Writer/Director/Production Designers
Angela Wong Carbone - Film Writer/Actor
Bethany Yeap - Film & Commercial Director/Production Designer
Benjamin Shearn - Film Editor/Writer
Celia Au - Film Producer/Actor
Fiona Smyth - Artist/Illustrator
Gigi Dement - Creative Film & TV Producer
Isabella Tan - Film & Commercial Director/Cinematographer
Masayoshi Nakamura - Creative Director/Illustrator/Animator

COMMERCIAL PRDUCTION COMPANIES WHO ALSO TO THE GOOD STUFF

Meerkat Media - C o o p e r a t i v e l y o w n e d ! ! !

Picture Farm Productions

Art School Athletics

New York City Based Community & Mutual Aid Resources

Mutual Aid NYC is a network of groups organizing to provide aid & support to New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond.

The W.O.W. Project sustains ownership over Manhattan Chinatown’s future by growing, protecting, and preserving Chinatown’s creative culture through arts, culture, and activism

Welcome to Chinatown is a nonprofit organization amplifying and addressing the critical needs of our community and its entrepreneurs.

Freecycle New York City is a grassroots and entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (and getting) stuff for free in their own towns and keeping good stuff out of landfills.

Queens Mutual Aid Network

Bushwick Mutual Aid

AAPI & Coalition Building

18 Million Rising connects the power of Asian America to digital first organizing

Rising Majority brings together a wide range of forces—labor, youth, and feminists; activists working toward abolition, immigrant rights, economic and environmental justice; and activists working against climate change, war, and imperialism.