News Digest for the first 4 month of 2012 so far.

So far 2012 has been quite interesting, and in the past 4 months I

• won 2 more contests, and got second place in the third (will update the post below with links to the winning images); 
• did production design for another Columbia University MFA thesis project "Rub", written and directed by Raymond Yeung and produced by Jie Chen, Joelle Joseph and Ale Vivas;
• art directed 2 extremely fun photo shoots with amazing models -- Rachel Lu and Li Muravieva,  and great photographers -- Max Noy and Elina Akselrud & Sergey Levitan. 

Directing photo shoots was a new experience for me, but I loved every aspect of it -- from creating character concepts to each shot direction. Working in a creative collaboration with Li Muravieva as the make-up artist was another very rewarding aspect of this experience.  

On a related note, the first weekend of May marked the premiere of my last year's project "Breakway" during the Columbia University Film Festival. Some details are available in this article: "Lincoln Center will welcome student filmmakers"