CA is a Black-Filipino-Italian-American filmmaker, editor, sound designer, producer, and director looking to relocate from Chicago to NYC. He is also the creator and host of a LATTO thought podcast (lattothought.com), a long form audio documentary series which examines mixed race identities throughout US history and recontextualizes race as the actions of policy and power over time.
CA's work over the past ten years has been largely focused on documentary storytelling (short films, web series, and podcasts), narrative (short films), and experimental sound art (slow wave music and score composition). His most recent non-fiction short film, Inhuman Figures: Robots, Clones, and Aliens (https://smithsonianapa.org/inhuman-figures//) was released and exists for free on the Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center's online exhibit. And his most recent narrative short film edit, CASSANDRA (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptdm6sr1d_0), won Best Thriller and Best Editing at the Women in Horror Film Festival (2020). As a burgeoning writer / director, his first short film, Roano Moreno’s Colorful Canvases (https://vimeo.com/275541457), won Best Chicago Ensemble at the Windy City Festival in 2019.
Please send any and all inquiries to CA@lattothought.com.
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