Lien Do and Matthew Pereira contributed sound mixing of this documentary by Mitra Elena Ghaffari created out of the SocDoc grad program at UCSC.
A contemporary mosaic of Havana’s bicycle culture, positioning the bicycle as a reclaimed mobility tool and critical resource for the future of the island.
We mixed this film, “Coach Emily” by Pallavi Somusetty, under the One Outside Film Grant put on by Eddie Bauer.
Emily Taylor, a Black woman and rock climbing coach in Oakland, CA strives to empower her students through her Brown Girls Climbing program, and connect them to the outdoors. In search of personal inspiration and as a way to center BIPOC voices that are often marginalized in the climbing industry, I began to film Emily’s Brown Girls Climbing program. I saw how the microaggressions that seemed alienating to me, were further amplified for young Black and brown girls. My perspective as a brown woman climber has helped me connect to my participants as they challenge the notion of who can occupy space in the wilderness. In this short form, I found it impossible to chronicle every setback Emily and her students faced during my time filming them, along with all of the ways they reclaim their space. So I hope audiences will stick with me as I work this coming year on a feature-length documentary that allows us to explore the Brown Girls Climbing journey in greater detail. Follow along at coachemilyfilm.com and @coachemilyfilm on IG, FB, and Twitter.
Eddie Bauer. "One Outside Film Grant" Nov 3, 2020
Lien is working with Quyên Nguyen-Le (an independent filmmaker) on a Short documentary based on the Vietnamese Mortuary community. She is contributing audio recording, adr, mixing, editing, and music.
Quyên Nguyen-Le’s The Morning Passing on El Cajón Boulevard introduces us to the City Heights mortuary workers who help refugee families grieve. Joseph Mangat’s rousing observational piece Bidyoke thrusts us into the electric immigrant space of a karaoke-restaurant in National City. Lastly, in Reunion ‘99, R.J. Lozada interviews former classmates at his 20th high school reunion in the South Bay, and finds that memories, including his own, are not always reliable.
Voice of San Diego. "Culture Report: Refugee and Immigrant Stories Take the Big Screen" November 5, 2019
NBC News. "Asian American film festivals launch careers, bridge gulfs and foster careers" November 6, 2019
KPBS. "City Heights Mortuary Featured In San Diego’s Asian Film Festival" November 8, 2019
KPBS. "PacArts Hosts Online Discussion For ‘The Paradise We Are Looking For’" May 22, 2020
USA Today. "Elevating Asian talent: The 5 best movies we saw at LA Asian Pacific Film Festival" October 26, 2020
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Lien Do and Matthew Pereira contributed sound mixing of this documentary by Toyoko Saindon created out of the SocDoc grad program at UCSC.
Hasami (scissors) is an experimental documentary that explores intergenerational understanding, grief, healing, and performance through the documentation of Eiko, the 71 year old Japanese mother of the director, and her effort to find a resting place for the ashes of her younger sister, Akiko.
Lien worked with Sunkissed Productions for Jade Leaf Match Company for their online advertisements. She contributed audio restoration (cleaning up bad production audio), Audio Mixing and Editing.
“Matcha is about people - from the farmers who cultivate each leaf with care, to the tea masters who craft the leaves with precision, to those of us who enjoy the taste and the way it makes us feel.
We're matcha lovers just like you, and rest assured we're always here to help. Please reach out anytime...we'd love to hear from you.”
-Will & Marc (Co-Founders, Jade Leaf Matcha)
Lien Do and Matthew Pereira did the post-production mixing and mastering of this documentary that was part of the Social Documentary MFA program at UCSC. They mixed the film in 5.1 and Stereo. It is finished but currently on festival circuit. Full video to come out soon.
Four years after the assassination of Indigenous landback activist Jerhy Rivera, his absence is an open wound in the hearts of his family, the Bröran community, and across Indigenous nations in Costa Rica. In JERHY, a Costa Rican filmmaker submerges himself in the town of Térraba, piecing together Jerhy’s legacy and uncovering the Bröran’s struggle to reclaim their ancestral land from the hands of illegal settlers.
Directed by John Ortiz, with the support of Jerhy Rivera’s family and the Bröran community of Térraba.
Lien Do and Matthew Pereira did the post-production mixing and mastering of this documentary that was part of the Social Documentary MFA program at UCSC. It is finished but currently on theatre circuit. Full video to come out soon.
LAND/TRUST (2022) explores interrelationships of people, plants, land and labor as it follows Amah Mutsun Tribal Band members’ work to restore a coastal prairie on California's Central Coast. The film is drawn from a body of material collected for the Amah Mutsun Land Trust and Tribal Band archives starting in the summer of 2022. It follows the restoration work in the Quiroste Valley Cultural Preserve at Año Nuevo State Park, which encompasses the former site of Mitenne, a village of the Awaswas-speaking Quiroste people. Directed by Ruth Anne Beutler.