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I tell stories to gather people around what matters.
I started making YouTube videos when I was eight… and filmmaking quickly became the thing I felt most passionate about: a way to make people feel and remember something. Since then, storytelling has shaped how I write, campaign, document and bring other people’s experiences to life. I believe stories matter because they bring distant lives closer, helping people empathise and ACT.
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Beyond these projects, my academic interests keep returning to language and how people make meaning. I am studying Latin, Ancient Greek, Religious Studies and English Literature for A-Level, and have been recognised as runner-up in the Year 11 History Essay Prize, as well as a finalist in the year-wide AJ Ayer Theology Essay Prize and Swinburne English Essay Prize. My lexical interests also extend through Cantonese, English, German, French, Italian and the Classics.
At Eton, I achieved Merit in internal exams, placing in the top quarter of the year. I have also received 146 academic Show-Ups, ranking 6th in my year cohort, and a house-record of 53 Commendations for Good Effort, reflecting sustained engagement in lessons.
Alongside academics, I have taken on leadership roles including School Prefect, House Prefect and Upper School Council representative at the Dragon School, giving me a practical role in school life and a better understanding of how institutions listen, decide and change. Other recognitions connect back to the same thread of creative communication. I was awarded one of two annual House Arts “Colours” in 2025 for contributions to creative life in my boarding house. Alongside technical skills in Premiere Pro, Photoshop, After Effects and Lightroom, these experiences reflect the same impulse behind my storytelling: how words and images can help people understand one another more clearly.
Making films
Film has been my favourite medium since I was eight because it feels the most immersive. A single shot, cut or sound can pull someone into a world instantly. I first learnt that through YouTube, making videos again and again until I began to understand how editing could shape attention and emotion.
At Eton, I have pushed that passion through the Film Committee and larger collaborations. Drop the Mask, a Christmas mystery involving 28 people and starring Eton’s Provost, premiered at the Founder’s Feast and let me build some of my proudest cinematography and action sequences. I spoke to more than 260 pupils to campaign for the return of the Film Unit, an issue that was later escalated to Senior Leadership, because I wanted filmmaking to remain a serious creative outlet for others as well as myself. It was also an honour to be awarded the Flatley Award for Most Dedication at the Eton Film Festival. Even more excitingly, having spent nine months in pre-production with the Film Society, I am currently directing and producing the School Film 2027, Eton’s first boy-directed major production, involving several hundred boys across the cast and crew via the Drama Department, Arts Schools and CCF. See a concept shoot here.
I have also developed my craft outside school through selective programmes such as New York Film Academy and Babel Workshop, where I had more formal chances to study filmmaking, storytelling and creative collaboration. Pants on Fire, which I directed at Interlochen Center for the Arts, was a satire about the pressure of college applications and taught me how to lead a 12-person crew in a more high-octane production setting.
I have also used film as a way to make complex ideas more accessible, receiving the 2026 Moseley Physics Video Prize after placing runner-up in 2024 and 2025. My filmmaking YouTube channel lets me experiment with editing challenges and creator-led videos, and has received encouragement from major creators, including Airrack’s team, who praised my “frenetic style of editing” and ability to keep viewers watching.
Today, 21 YouTubers with a combined 53 million subscribers, including Jenny Hoyos (12M+) and Papa Jake (8M+), have contacted me directly after discovering my editing, asking me to join their teams. At 16, I now work on paid freelance commissions at US$120 per finished minute of video, drawing on years of filmmaking to shape stories through pacing, humour and an understanding of what makes people keep watching. My short-form edutainment brand has reached over 32,000 followers across platforms and 45,000 hours watched. Social media has become another place to sharpen the vital craft of holding attention and making an idea stick.
Helping communities be heard
A cause can be urgent, but urgency alone rarely makes people care. Storytelling gives people a way in by making the mission human, specific and understandable.
This idea has shaped much of the work I have done beyond the arts. From 2023 to 2025, I was one of eight members of UNICEF UK’s Youth Advisory Board, where I helped represent young people’s views on children’s rights and mental health. Some of the work was highly practical: I joined a four-person panel interviewing candidates for the Chief Executive role, contributed to a COP29 digital campaign encouraging supporters to contact their MPs and spoke at UNICEF’s Global Coalition for Youth Mental Health event hosted by Spotify. In 2025, I also joined the Youth Advisory Group for the University of Birmingham’s youth engagement study, contributing a young person’s perspective on how organisations can involve young people more meaningfully rather than treating youth voice as a box to tick. What stayed with me most, though, was the importance of turning large issues into something people can actually comprehend and act on.
At Eton, I helped campaign for Busy Buttons, a creative charity that supports children through art and self-expression. My main contribution was producing a documentary that allowed the founders to explain the charity in their own words. Alongside a friend, I also helped refresh the charity’s digital branding, gave talks, wrote articles and supported the wider campaign. The campaign went on to win Eton’s 2026 Social Impact Challenge, securing over £5,000 in funding and making Busy Buttons one of five annual Eton Action Charities. It was inspiring to see how a clearer story could so immediately transform a small charity into seeming more memorable and human.
Through my work as my house’s environmental representative, I’ve seen how film can also make climate issues feel less distant. My short documentary about Antarctica received Eton’s highest academic commendation, “Sent Up for Good”, and was selected to be permanently archived in the College Library. It will also be used by the school across its website and social media.
This instinct came long before Eton. At 10, I co-wrote and published a book that raised HK$200,000 for SoCO and the Oxford Vaccine Group, interviewing Professor Andrew Pollard and Dr Bruno Holtof and speaking live on BBC Oxford. I later returned to SoCO through documentary work, and also produced a film for Mother’s Choice, both of which deepened my belief that charities are often most powerful when people can hear directly from those closest to the mission.
In 2022, I created a website and videos for Ukraine fundraising and biked 100km, raising HK$100,000 for UNHCR. In 2023, I published a fantasy novel and raised another HK$100,000 for UNHCR, UNICEF, MindsHK and the Dragon School Trust. The project also led to me becoming the first attending pupil at my school to receive its donor pin, an honour usually reserved for adults and one I was very grateful to be awarded. These projects were different in form, but they all pointed me back to the same idea: stories help people care when facts alone are not enough.
Capturing stories
As Editor and Head of the Eton College Journalism Association, I help lead the school’s official news group and think carefully about how stories should be found, framed and shared. If film first taught me how quickly a story can make people feel, journalism has taught me how carefully a story must be handled. The aim is still the same: to bring other people’s experiences closer, clearly enough that readers understand why they matter.
I have written across Eton publications including The Chronicle, Speaker, Lexicon and Hestia, moving between school life, politics, languages and Classics. Each publication asks for a unique voice, which has helped me adapt how I write depending on the subject and audience.
Photography has sharpened the same instinct visually. As a core member of the Eton College Photography Unit, I have photographed societies, events and visiting speakers, including Rory Sutherland, with my work also appearing on the front cover of the official school magazine, The Chronicle.
More recently, I spent three months of the summer researching and writing a book analysing the bridge between modern cinematic language and ancient classical storytelling. Ancestors of Cinema critically explores forty films and numerous ancient texts to find patterns across the echelons of human art.
Exploring the power of performance
Performance has become one of the clearest ways I explore voice under pressure. In declamation, acting, singing and debating, the question is similar to the one behind my films and writing: how do I make an audience feel what someone else is trying to express?
At Eton, I was runner-up in the 2025 Loder Declamation, one of the school’s most demanding public speaking prizes, as well as “proxime” in the Hawtrey Latin Declamation and Ancient Greek Declamation. I have also reached the German Declamation and House Duologue finals, and hold Distinctions in LAMDA Solo Acting Grades 1–7. These have made me more interested in how language changes when it is spoken, memorised, translated or performed. Training at Juilliard also sharpened how I think about voice, presence and interpretation, while somehow becoming a finalist in Interlochen’s I-Idol lip-sync competition, held in front of 2,000 people, reminded me that communication is not always at its best when it takes itself too seriously.
Music has shaped that same discipline in a different way. As a chorister in Eton’s College Chapel Choir, with a Netherlands tour, ARSM Singing Diploma in 2022 and ABRSM Grade 8 Singing, I have learnt how voice works both individually and as part of an ensemble. Being part of Eton’s select competitive Debate Squad, as well as Burke’s Philosophy Club and the CCF, adds a sharper version of the same skill: listening closely, thinking quickly and shaping an argument clearly enough to move a room in the moment.
Africa Center Documentary
In a candid portrait of the Africa Center Hong Kong, founder Innocent Mutanga opens up about his journey as a “penniless exile”, while community forces Nerice Gietel and Stanley Nnam share their personal stories with the multicultural hub.
Beyond narrative, I am also passionate about piecing together real-life stories. Having interviewed three key figures in the organisation, I spent several weeks unravelling the extraordinary story behind the Africa Center Hong Kong.
My short documentary following Pauline Herbommez’s expedition to Antarctica detailed the urgent action needed to preserve the continent. It has since been highlighted on Eton’s official socials. It was an honour to be “Sent Up for Good” for this production, the highest academic award presented by the school.
Just before Christmas, two schoolboys set out to unmask the mysterious Santa.
My 2025 Christmas comedy short starred half of my boarding house, including housemaster Dr Hess and the Provost, Sir Nicholas Coleridge. It was officially selected for the Bragi Film Festival 2026.