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““To see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events; to watch the faces of the poor and the gestures of the proud; to see strange things — machines, armies, multitudes, shadows in the jungle and on the moon; to see work — paintings, towers and discoveries; to see things thousands of miles away, things hidden behind walls and within rooms, things dangerous to come to, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel.””
Chris Ungco is an bicoastal Cinematographer and Producer. After getting his Master’s in Directing at the School of Visual Arts, Chris spent most of his early career filming progressive documentaries for Google and the BBC around the world. His diverse work also includes narrative series for Comedy Central, HBO, and Sesame Street, as well Music Videos and Interviews for Billboard Magazine, MTV, and Spotify. His Photography and Non-Profit Work has led to several memorable encounters with a global curiosity and compassion. Chris values patience, persistence, and the pursuit of excellence, but is known for his amiable demeanor and collaborative approach to sensitive work.
SOA Certified Steadicam Operator
Lana Boy is a French-American director who spent her most formative years growing up in Bangkok, Thailand.
After spending 5 years working as a pantomime at the Cirque du Soleil and touring her play around Europe, she moved to New York to pursue a career in film. Her narrative work has been seen in multiple festivals (Bushwick Film Festival, Cannes, Tacoma Film Festival, to name a few). She now directs commercial content for fashion, food, and mini-documentaries. Some of her clients include BIC Pens, Pantene, Dole, Oskar Bangkok, Luxmuse, Apple, Cisco. She brings in a sense of community and female empowerment.
Ube Films was founded with the idea that things are moving fast. You knew that already, you can feel it in every big city, on every commute. Media, flying through air digitally, faster than your little heart can handle. Faster controversy, faster reactions. Bigger streams, more events. And organizations, businesses, and non-profits are all retooling to become more inhabitable, more downloadable, and more photogenic.
At Ube, we play in the space between sensationalism and authenticity. Our collaborators have backgrounds ranging across journalism, fine art, dance, music, and narrative content. (None of us sleep, we just take little breaks.)
Our parents were Baby Boomers who emigrated with a dream of prosperity through diversity. They still call their country “Home” even though they haven’t lived there in decades. “One day we’ll retire and go Home…”
Our ideals were borne on the backs of those experiences, being in schools in homogenized places, looking alien at home and feeling alien visiting “Home.” It is Ube’s goal to work with collaborators and creatives from a myriad of backgrounds who are looking for their own definition of diaspora, which is a simple word describing not only the anxieties of being lost, but the rewarding feeling of joining forces and creating a new story together.
We look forward to making great content with you.
