Writer and Director for this short film shot in Beijing, also presented online with CineAsian Films.

Xiangxiang (想像) is a teenage girl who has recently moved to the US from China. She feels like an outsider at school and finds solace by taking pen to paper.

Does love mean staying beside those closest to you no matter what, or is the hardest but healthiest choice sometimes to step back and away from a harmful situation? A brother and a sister, bound together by a childhood promise, move together from Japan to the United States and must both face the realities of adulthood by making difficult resolutions.

As the Ink Seeps is a character-driven dramatic short about an African-American female writer struggling after a traumatic series of events.