Blush
(2026)




Amidst the humidity of a bustling city-island, a group of teenagers navigates crosscultural identity, friendship, first love, and the messiness of growing up.  Blush is an improvisational portrait of youth in Singapore — drawn from the real lives of its cast, and shaped by the moments between.

Awarded the Wavelength Grant (2025) 

World Premiere at Aspen ShortsFest (2026) 







Ant Diaries
(2025) 



The life of an ant.

Made in collaboration with the Echo Park Film Collective


Slovenia (2022)




An audiovisual diary in 3-parts.

We come from a family of storytellers. As kids, we’d listen enthralled to our grandparents vivid accounts of war, love, betrayal, and family. Growing up as the children of two culturally distinct parents in a country that was foreign to us, the family history we carried overseas kept us grounded as our physical surroundings swept us up. 

As time went on, our family became increasingly scattered across the globe. My brother and I were fortunate to attend college in California while our parents worked stable jobs in Singapore. The only downside to this lifestyle was it became difficult to visit family. Slowly, one year became two, and two became six since we had seen our grandmother and aunt on our mother’s side in Slovenia. 

Tate and I finally got the chance to visit our grandmother this past September. Sitting in the living room of our grandmother’s flat, we listened again to those same stories, and remembered the parts of ourselves we had forgotten.




Ana Chavez

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Born in LA & raised in Singapore, Ana Chavez is a filmmaker & video artist exploring intersectional identity and youth culture through a hybrid filmmaking approach. She holds a BA in Film & Media Studies from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she first explored storytelling through documentary editing. 

Her hybrid coming-of-age film Blush was awarded the 2025 Wavelength Grant and premiered at Aspen ShortsFest in 2026. The story explores crosscultural identity and is heavily shaped by improvisation from its teen cast. 
Ana is drawn to super 8 & analog filmmaking, mobile cameras, improvisation, and field recordings pulled from everyday conversations and the world around her. For her, filmmaking is a practice of building a personal archive –  a fragmented, intuitive collage of memories, and articulations of what home feels like.

Rooted in LA’s arts communities, Ana’s skill for documentation & editing has been leveraged by experimental arts organizations across the city, including Living Earth, Leaving Records, A Club Called Rhonda, and dublab.  She also mentors emerging teen photographers at Las Fotos Project and makes films with Echo Park Film Collective.  
Works Screened

Blush
Aspen ShortsFest 
2026

Gooms
Los Angeles IFS Film Festival
2023

Her & I 
Santa Barbara International Film Festival
2022