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
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2021
Rescue the Villagers! — Short story, Aniko Press Issue 3
5 Steps to Mend a Broken Heart — Poetry, Perspektif Vol. 15
The Time Ripper — Poetry & Puzzle, Myriad Vol. 4
2019
Nanawa-Uh! — Short Story, Myriad Vol. 3
The Travelling Mountain — Short Story, Myriad Vol. 3
The Janusian Way — Short story, Perspektif Vol. 12
Philosophical Action — Poetry & Monologue, Perspektif Vol. 10
2018
The Green Field — Poetry, Perspektif Vol. 9
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2024
Son of a Donkey — Script Coordinator; Series (Princess Pictures, Netflix)
2023
Planet Lulin — Script Coordinator; Series (Princess Pictures, Moody Street Kids, ABCMe)
2021
5km and 8pm — 2nd Editor and Colourist; Short Film
2020
Our Stories @ Unimelb — Editor and Producer; Documentary
2019
LoV-R — Writer, Co-director, and Actor; Play