colLABorate: ideas & images

23/11/2021

There’s a bogey in my shot 🎥 🐕

For anyone not familiar with film industry terms = there’s something/someone/some dog that is not supposed to be in front of my camera.

11/10/2021

"A rare and vivid insight into the plight of Syrians trapped in the country's last rebel held province, Idlib." - Reviewed by Mike Thomson, BBC World Affairs Correspondent and author

My latest documentary has had been well received by the international community covering . Co-directed alongside Ali Al Ibrahim this 86 minute film documents 10 years after the outbreak of the Syrian Civil War, a secret forger living in hiding is creating fake documents for people whose lives have been erased by the Assad Regime. The people he is helping want only their basic human rights: to fall in love, be educated and live and die under their own name.

FORGED is currently available for all territories. If you're attending MIP Markets and would like a screener please reach out to myself, the producer Megan O’Hara or email us at [email protected]

📺 watch the trailer: https://youtu.be/EwnX_uoDvLc

27/07/2021

Eat your ♥️ out Netflix + Amazon Prime Video

New documentaries, final print edition of my book and the launch of my own streaming platform! Read what I’ve been up to and watch the trailers for my work so far in 2021 🚀

"This project is really important, really urgent, and it is an untold story about the Vietnamese boat people and intergenerational issues that the protagonist is facing.”

01/06/2021

What exactly are we meant to remember on Memorial day? 🇺🇸

Read my latest article on Medium looking at the origins, memory, war, history, and the need to revise it.

A bit of history worth revising — without losing the stars, stripes, hotdogs or hamburgers.

26/05/2021

Have you ever looked down at your food and found it offensive - and not because of a poor quality but because of how it was labeled on a menu?

I'm learning lots this month as part of month and wanted to openly and honestly share my latest learning about where a bánh mì should sit on a menu. Have a read and share.

I was perplexed, slightly ashamed and very…hungry.

13/05/2021

There is only one contributor to the documentary that is not Asian-American, and that is Ron Haeberle.

Ron was the US Army photographer who photographed the massacre of Vietnamese non-combatants (civilians) in My Lai on the 16th of March, 1968 and later published the photographs in LIFE magazine. In his honest and open interview, we hear about the power of memory, the optics of war, and how all of the actions of our past affect the racial issues we are facing today.

Listen to this raw cut from the interview 🎧 and check out more on the progress of the documentary: https://www.collaborateideasimages.com/audio-documentaries

10/05/2021

It’s been a year...no really it’s been a year for the podcast ‘I Am My Own Correspondent’ 🎙🎉🎧

Inspired by the podcast with a similar name, a year ago I began going through my hard drives and social media for the unused interviews and stories that didn’t make the cut to create a podcast with a behind the scenes look of what it is like to travel, shoot, produce alone as my own correspondent.

This anniversary episode is appropriately about lockdown in Bermuda 🇧🇲. Listen to the trailer here and if you want to listen to the full episode go here:

https://wavve.link/IAMOC

or find it wherever you get - including now on as of today! 🎧

18/03/2021

Register for next Fridays TED Circles discussing ‘How to choose your news’ here: https://events.tedcircles.com/invitation.html?id=recORSg35yhOtb7vl

10am Los Angeles
1pm NYC
5pm London

📺 This month please watch the talk we will be discussing in advance: https://www.ted.com/talks/damon_brown_how_to_choose_your_news

See you in the circle ⭕️

12/02/2021

Join our TED circle discussing ‘Our Memories’ on Friday the 26 February - this was taken when director Lauren Anders Brown joined this month’s speaker Farish Ahmad-Noor to dive deeper into his TED talk.

TED Circles are free to join, sign up here
https://events.tedcircles.com/invitation.html?id=recJK7T47t3R2nrEp

Stay on after the circle to continue the conversation with the director, producer, and contributor as it relates to audio documentary 🎙

10/02/2021

Celebrate the Lunar New Year us!

By donating you’ll get a private half hour online class, teaching you a basic introduction to coffee and specifically Vietnamese style coffee, with the director of the War Less Travelled!

You’ll also receive a digitally signed print, along with the karaoke code, virtual Photo Booth link, along with updates and a first listen to the documentary!

Link: https://www.paypal.com/instantcommerce/checkout/APFNKM8BQMXNY

18/12/2020

Today is and if there’s one thing you learn today it’s this-
Refugees are migrants.
But not all migrants are refugees.
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The word migrant has come to mean something different than its definition, but it’s important to use it with purpose. I have relocated many times in my life, I am not an expat, nor an asylum seeker or a refugee- I am a migrant.
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Today I’m reading the book by The Refugees to understand more of the Vietnamese refugee story in preparation for upcoming documentary interviews.
And while the syntax may vary, the experiences of refugees and migrants may be more similar than we realise, which I hope to explore in -
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