an altar where the candles never go out
Laundromat Project Work Samples
in jei’s debut film, they embark on a journey to co-document their ancestral history of movement as survival through hours of oral histories with their father to learn more about who they are, where they come from, and what they share.
Doc short | 2022 | Director, Cinematographer, Editor
SACRED (work in progress sample)
Funded by The Alliance for Media Arts and Culture, SACRED follows Amara Ullauri, a Trans, Kichwa, farmer, who stewards Ayni Herb Farm. SACRED explores how Amara's identities inform how they relate to the Land they steward and acts as a roadmap that offers gender expansiveness and community as Medicine within a rapidly changing environmental and political climate.
Doc short | 2025 | Director, Editor