Portfolio

2024

SNAPPIN’: Re-Do Your Job Interview!

Short film, 9 minutes

Writer, director, producer, editor, and actor (as Riley Setiawan)

In this mixed-media short film, a young immigrant uses her powers to turn back time to re-do her job interview. Through a science fiction-comedy lens, we will explore the Millennial struggle of 'adulting', filial piety in Asian culture, and the competitiveness of the recent job market.

2022

heydays

TikTok, 12 x 1-minute

Writer, director, producer, editor, actor (as Alex Widjaya)

Inspired by It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Seinfeld, heydays follows self-centred 20-something Chinese-Indonesians as they navigate jobs, love, and life in the Melbourne CBD.

2022

No Waiting

Main webseries, 3 x 6-minute
Script Supervisor and Directing mentee

Bonus episodes, 3 x 3-minute
Director

No Waiting is a webseries following employees of a fictitious government ‘Hype Unit’ who must use all the skills they have in their bureaucratic arsenal to hype the community up to get the jab - all the while working out of a vaccination clinic waiting room.

2021

Subject 9412

Short film, 3 minutes

Writer, director, editor, and actor (as Private Tei)

*Credited as Theresa Gunarso

Upon an intergalactic exploration ship, a private volunteers to watch over a dangerous prisoner.

Accolades:

123 Film Competition, 2021 — Short Film Category 2nd Place Winner

MAX3MIN, 2022 — International Competition Official Selection

2021 - present

Chindo Tea

Podcast,

8 x 45-minute (series 1)
8 x 30-minute (series 2)

Creator, Writer, Producer, Co-host, and Editor

Get ready for Theresa and her friend/co-host—Livia—to spill the tea on their experiences as Chinese-Indonesians.

Other Works