Celeste is a transfeminine director and visual artist based in Sydney. Her work has been focused on the lives of Asian and Trans/LGBTQ+ communities, including her trans-focused film “Happy New Year, Ms. Luna” which was awarded the Queer Screen Pitch-off grant for $10,000, and eventually went on to win awards at Flickerfest, Mardi Gras Film Festival, and Joyhouse Film Festival.

Her family immigrated from Cambodia in the 80s, escaping the Khmer Rouge and bringing Celeste to Sydney’s Western Sydney community, a melting pot of different migrant communities which continues to inform her stories today.

They are a recent graduate of the prestigious Masters of Screen Arts at AFTRS and graduated also from UTS’ Master of Media Arts and Production, being awarded the “Lawrie Fitzgerald Prize in Innovation and Creativity in Sound and/or Film” for their work on Tokophobia, a film dealing the fear of pregnancy, and a man who becomes pregnant as a single father. Their latest short film. 

She attended the Apichatpong Weerasethakul “Playlabs” Creators Lab, chosen by Apichatpong to make a film and be tutored by him.

Outside of directing, their work is spread between work in narrative film, video art and commercial work, as well as crewing on larger film sets including Shang-chi, Thor: Love and Thunder and Furiosa in the camera department and commercial work for The New York Times, Louis Vuitton and more.

Full CV: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CENeJs3OBIQNqxRmLCTAMWljEXrrAWZO/view?usp=sharing