Street Vendor Project Films

Street Vendor Project Films

Client: Street Vendor Project at the Urban Justice Center, Robin Hood, Morgan Stanley

Date: 2020

Role: Filmmaker - Director, Writer, Editor, Colorist, Music Supervisor

If you know me, you likely know that my number one favorite cuisine is “Street Food.” So it was a huge honor to be asked to chronicle the lives of some of the amazing entrepreneurs struggling to keep their delicious businesses afloat during the COVID pandemic. This is the first time I’ve been commissioned as a filmmaker to tell stories set in my own neighborhood of Jackson Heights Queens, which only added to the joy of an obvious passion project. Tight turnarounds and filmmaking in languages we don’t speak made this a challenging project, but the end product is one we’re extremely proud of.

with: Cat Davis, Louis Zieja, Eugene Kim, Andrew Hildebrand