SI LA ISLA QUIERE (ISLAND WILLING) - PRODUCER
Documentary Short, Fall 2025 Premiere
Set on Chile’s Robinson Crusoe Island—home to a higher percentage of endemic species than the Galápagos—Si la Isla Quiere is a portrait of a community that sees itself as endemic.
This ensemble film follows islanders as they confront extractive conservation policies and lead grassroots sustainability efforts grounded in intergenerational tradition. Resisting narratives of ecological catastrophe, our film instead offers something rarer: a hopeful vision of living in harmony with nature.
FEATURING...
Solange Goldswosthy González, Álvaro López Goldswosthy, Wilson González Celedón, Luisa Yolanda Recabarren, Nadia González Recabarren, Raimundo Bilbao, Jaritza Rivadeneira Muena, Cristina Muena, Luna Rivadeneira, Anthoni Muñoz, Gloria Bermúdez Valdebenito, Germán Recabarren Bordones, Victoria Recabarren Bermúdez, Marion Recabarren Bermúdez, Guillermo Martínez Green, Karen Rojas Celedón, Genesis Ríos Arredondo, Sara de Rodt Araya, Juan Galleguillos Zapata, Ema Cespédes
DIRECTOR, PRODUCER, DP... Cece King
PRODUCER... Elsa Hana Chung
CO-PRODUCER... Camilla Marchese González
EDITOR... Cristina Carrasco Hernández
STORY BY... Cece King, Cristina Carrasco Hernández, Elsa Hana Chung, Camilla Marchese González
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS... Amie Rappoport McKenna, Debi Wisch, Tom Yellin, Regina K/ Scully, Anne-Marie Keane
IN ASSOCIATION WITH... Artemis Rising Foundation, The Puffin Foundation, The Dickey Center
ANTONY & CLEOPATRA – DIRECTOR
Theatre Production, Spring 2023
Roaming Columbia University’s icon(ograph)ic campus, this adaptation transported Shakespeare’s most melodramatic and metadramatic text to a spaghetti-western landscape.
Guided by rigorous research and infused with acid-trip aesthetics, the adaptation’s polestar was Said’s Orientalism. The production probed Shakespeare’s own Romeo-and-Juliet-ification of one of the world’s most pervasive and disastrous binaries: West & East.
DIRECTOR... Elsa Hana Chung
STAGE MANAGER... Izzy Bohn
LEAD PRODUCER... Sophie Simons
PRODUCER... Miranda Paiz
DRAMATURG/ENSEMBLE DIRECTOR... Clara Kraebber, Amelia Lewis
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR... Keala Henry, Su Khadka
PRODUCED WITH... Columbia University’s King’s Corwn Shakespeare Troupe
SELECT WORKS
An assortment of recent and current projects...
COLLEGE WALK – WRITER/DIRECTOR/ACTOR
Narrative Short, Spring 2023
In a sharp, fast-paced voiceover, a college girl walks us through the steps of getting ready for a night out—gradually exposing the darker undercurrent of campus party culture.
SINGING FOR JUSTICE – ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Documentary Feature, Spring 2025
Singing for Justice tells the story of Faith Petric, a political radical, community organizer and charismatic performer who united folk music and progressive causes from the 1930s through the early 2000s.
CALLS WITH BOO - WRITER/DIRECTOR/CHARACTER
Documentary Short, Winter 2022
Inspired by Ackerman’s News From Home (1976), this short weaves real audio from two sisters’ long-distance FaceTimes, culminating in a montage of raw footage that captures the humor, angst, and love carried through the airwaves.
“BE A JOYMAKER” COMMERCIAL – ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Commercial, Spring 2025
A 30s commercial spotlighting Bundles of Joy, a 501(c)3 that provides essentials to mothers and children from birth to age 12 living in poverty. This project was done as part of NBCUniversal’s Creative Impact Lab & Digital Bodega’s Producing Apprenticeship.
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY: 1976 – ACTOR (MARIANNE)
Theatre Production, Winter 2022
Sisters Elinor and Marianne navigate social change, expectations, and classic Jane Austen romances in this adaptation that reimagines them as women of color living in New York City in the summer of 1976.
YOU CAN DO BETTER – ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
Narrative Feature, In Post-Production
Two lifelong friends start a wildly successful dating show in NYC, but the situation becomes complicated when they both fall for one of the contestants.
FRANKENSTEIN – WRITER/DIRECTOR
Experimental/Hybrid Feature, In Development
Set in a techno-futuristic New York City, the maniacally ambitious Victoria Frankenstein constructs the “perfect” female body and electrocutes it to life– only to recoil in horror and abandon her creation. The once-innocent Creature– rejected, harassed, and isolated– swears revenge on her maker.
This adaptation unfolds entirely within a Black Box space, with projections conjuring an apocalyptic NYC drawn from both my imagination and lived experience. Shot largely as a silent film, it will merge dance, theatrical movement, and Expressionist aesthetics to reimagine this iconic tale.
I first drafted this adaptation at 17 (Mary Shelley was 18 years old when she wrote Frankenstein) as a raw response to my battle with anorexia—identifying both the obsessive Creator and the wounded Creature. Now, with fresh eyes, deeper lived experience, and renewed will, I am ready to bring this story to life.
ABOUT ME
Elsa Hana Chung is a NYC-born, raised, and based multidisciplinary director, writer, and producer. A graduate of Columbia University’s Film & Media Studies program with Phi Beta Kappa honors, she is also an alum of the Ghetto Film School, NYU’s Future Filmmakers Program, and the British American Drama Academy.
Since writing her first novel at age 12—a reimagining of The Outsiders set among rival girls’ cliques at a ritzy NYC private school—Elsa has explored adaptation as a lens for reflecting her lived experiences, particularly around identity, health, and New York City culture. Her work spans independent documentary (Si la Isla Quiere, Singing for Justice) and high-concept reimaginings (Antony and Cleopatra, Frankenstein).
Alongside her artistic practice, she has built a career across film and television at Florentine Films, Nine Stories Productions, and Cinetic Media, and currently works in TV distribution at All3Media International.