2025 recap !
Despite things in the world seeming darker, scarier, and depressing, I am forever grateful to have the life and community that I do to keep me going.
I'm thankful to have my amazing family with me every day, for all the little and big things in my life. As I'm growing older each day I'm so privileged to have a family supporting me in all my needs and endeavors.
So thankful for my friends who have stood by me through thick and thin, and help me keep my sanity.
Always thankful of my wonderful partner who makes each new day feel like a new stepping stone to a lovely future.
I am forever grateful to have worked on so many awesome projects, some even with my director tag on.
For all the new people I met, and all the old ones I maintain, it has all helped me have such a positive outlook on this year.
Regardless on things here and there not seeming perfect, and a possibility of a dooming future, the best we can do in this world is try to keep each and every day feel better than the last, and to support one another during these dark times.
I can't wait for another year of learning and growing.
I hope to create new connections and empower existing ones.
Even if I haven't tagged you in this post just know that you all hold a special place in my heart ❤️
Thank you all for a great 2025
📽 My First Major Festival 💖
I was so honored to have one of my all time favorite films be presented and included in such a lovely festival. I feels so nice to be with all these amazing filmmakers and friends to watch some wonderful stories !
This festival helped me feel so much more immersed in this queer side of me, and for that I am so grateful. Visibility is safety, and love, and hope.
Thank you to the Jeez Louise crew, this film wouldn't have been so awesome if it weren't for you all ❤️
If you wanna see Jeez Louise it's available for online viewing at @queerfilmfest 😉
I love love love movies 🥰
For as long as I can remember I've always loved school, I loved learning new things, seeing exciting things, and understanding life and myself a little bit better. Being able to go to a university was such a gift, I will always treasure it. It was never just "a 60k piece of paper" it was everything.
The life I built thanks to the MOPA program, I could not be more grateful for it. I am so immensely lucky to have shared so much with so many people.
I not just learned more about filmmaking, but I learned about love, friends, adulthood, and art and what it means to me. I learned that the spark I feel inside when making movies is unreplaceable.
I am greatful for all the talented people I've met, but most importantly the friends and life long bonds that were created. I appreciate the friendships that stuck along the wild and crazy way as I progressed and developed into the person I am today, and will continue to be present for any more developments that will happen.
University is a privilege not everyone gets and I can believe I made it to the end. Thank you most importantly to my family that endlessly supported my decision to persue film and still stand by my side as I try my hardest to make back that large amount of money Cap took from me 🥲
At the end of the day I am so glad to see that progress bar hit 100%, but this won't be the end of my educational career. I can't wait to keep on learning! Just gotta prepare myself to start living.
It won't be that bad right?!?!?!?!?!
I decided to come out and post this publicly. It's incredibly personal I know but it's very important for me to be transparent about who I am.
I can be a strange person often and all I want is for people to understand me and not misunderstand the way that I talk, act, and am.
I hope this doesn't change anything about my connections with some of you folks. And maybe this added context will help mend somethings and explain the way that I am.
I decided to identify as "autistic", rather than as "someone with autism", since I think it makes and shapes my everything.
I don't exist despite my autism. I am who I am because of it. It shapes the way that I talk, walk, act, and love.
COMING SOON !!
A brand new mini-series of improvised sketches: CHUCK & JUAN
With characters created by AJ, performed by Alex Simao and Frank Jimenez.
We'll be releasing some episodes over the next few months. STAY TUNED!
La Manzanilla, Mexico
This little town owns my whole heart. ❤️
I loved every second of it! Hopefully the Vancouver winter doesn't get rid of my nice tan so fast 💔
Seeing everyone reminisce about their 2016 puts me in a tough spot. Looking back after 10 years, it seems like a whole life time ago. It gets me to think about a hard but real time in my life.
I see that 13/14 year old, who is lost, anxious, not confident at all. Who avoids the camera every time it's pointed at her. Who can't see a single positive thing about herself, and feels like the whole world is falling apart.
I think about those dark times in my early adolescence where I hated to be in the spotlight, where I hated to be myself, and just felt completely destroyed.
I look back at these times, these photos, not so fondly, but I acknowledge their necessity. I acknowledge I needed this chapter to help teach me my own value and the amount of hard work it will take to get to the high points.
I see that most people talk fondly about their 2016 but I recognize there's value in representing the not-so-good sides of that year. To help inspire people who may be in those spots today to realize, that with time and love, anyone is capable of looking within and finally recognizing their worth.
I can't believe it's been a whole 10 years since. It seems like this side of me is basically a stranger, but I know deep down that lost girl is still with me. And no matter what, each day that I fight for myself today, is a fight that I win for 2016 me.
(also sorry frank for putting these photos of young you on display 🙃)
True love looks like kindness, respect, friendship, appreciation, and deep affection. It looks like one's natural form of loving, without holding back or sacrifices, it's truly unconditional. True love is choosing one another each day, but that choice being the easiest one to make. I feel that true love, and my true love is you Enrique ❤️
So happy to have reached 3 years with you, I can't wait for more 💖
📸 Shot on iphone by the goat @felix.soong
