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I am a queer, Filipino American filmmaker from Richmond, Virginia. I study Film and Television Production at NYU to fulfill my personal goal of uplifting minority narratives. I have a strong interest in topics of Race, Gender, and Sexuality within film. Alongside this, I currently pursue learning the Filipino language, Tagalog, at NYU as a way of reconnecting with my Asian American heritage. I also have a background in graphic design, social media management, photography, videography, and editing. My ultimate goal is to write and direct my own queer & bipoc stories.
By giving a voice to the minorities in communities of color and the lgbtq+, the voices that have been historically silenced, my art and film offer a new perspective of equitable representation.
Currently, I’ve been developing an understanding of filmmaking as a medium of art and design. To tell a story effectively, you have to learn to market it to an audience as a form of media that will communicate what you, as the creative, are trying to say to the world. These concepts encompass the foundations of my education thus far and are reflected in the works shown on this website.
My Journey
2015-2017
2017-2021
John Randolph Tucker High School
2021-2022
American University
2022-present
New York University
I began experimenting with photography, videography, and art.
I held multiple leadership positions in advocacy groups, media production projects, and extracurriculars.
■ Student Council Leadership (2018-2021) ■ Class Historian (2018-2019) ■ School Historian (2019-2020)
■ School President (2020-2021) ■ Virginia Youth Climate Cooperative ■ Varsity Track and Field/Cross Country Captain ■ Jazz and Concert Band Trombone ■ Model United Nations ■ Video Club/Morning Announcements ■ Ethics Council ■ The Incandescent Review Magazine ■ Henrico Justice ■ Y-Street ■ Equity Ambassadors ■
I started working on various student film/tv productions in Delta Kappa Alpha/District Cinema Society, The Photo Collective, and American University Television. I began interning at Voice of America, and I was chosen as Social Media Manager for the American University School of Communications Undergraduate Council.
I transferred to New York University's Tisch School of the Arts - Kanbar Institute of Film and Television.
I began getting involved with racial justice issues following the death of George Floyd in 2020. At the same time, Asian American hate crimes sky-rocketed with the ignorance surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic. Watching and hearing the painful stories of BIPOC during this time period, as well as confronting my own struggles with my racial identity, opened my eyes to the systems of oppression still existing today. I started my activism work by getting involved with groups addressing global and nutritional health as a part of initiatives created by the Virginia Youth Climate Cooperative and the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth's Y-Street Leadership Team. This introduction to activism led me to Henrico Justice, a student-led advocacy group addressing systemic oppression within Henrico County Public Schools in Virginia. With this group, I helped organize four protests garnering hundreds of supporters against issues of discrimination in redlining, redistricting, funding allocation, code of conduct, and curriculum based on various geographical, political, racial, and socioeconomic trends. I held leadership positions of various different names each providing me with the role of head photographer, head videographer, and program manager, once providing me with the task of restructuring the entire organization. We held several meetings with the county School Board and Superintendent, bringing about the formation of multiple civilian review boards, discussions of PTA partnerships between East-West schools, code of conduct changes, equitable redistricting policies, a coalition of public schools reform groups, and the restructuring of the county-sponsored Equity Ambassador program that I later joined and reshaped from the inside. I was chosen to represent my high school on the Executive council, where I brought ideas from Henrico Justice straight to the county officials. I continued this advocacy work while studying in Washington, D.C. at American University and plan to continue my fighting for racial and socioeconomic equity at New York University.
Jack Lacy, pictured on the right, photographing and recording Henrico Justices' "Make Waves in the West End" student protest.