I hope people watch LIQUOR STORE DREAMS and take away the sense of empathy and healing and that our communities do work so much better together, that there's larger forces at play that want to keep us apart.

I feel like a lot of our history ties back to the ‘92 L.A. And I think when 2020 hit I really wanted to examine how far we've come in our community when it comes to anti-blackness, racial tensions and things like that.

My film tackles interracial dynamics in Skid Row, Los Angeles.

This perspective was very important for me to capture because as you know a lot of Korean businesses are in predominantly Black and brown neighborhoods and I wanted to show Danny whose store is also in a Black and brown neighborhood but his approach being very different from mine.

I really wanted to show a contrasting experience that even even though our...our stores wer both in these neighborhoods that we were kind of approaching in a very...very different ways.

For me, this filmmaking process was educational.

So if people were able to learn more about the Korean community, L.A. history and how we can prevent things from our past, in the future, then that is, that's the main takeaway I wish they will be able to learn.