Hi, I'm Rosie
我的中文名字叫周平馨
I'm a 22-year-old filmmaker and educator.
I'm from Spokane, WA, and I currently live in Brooklyn, NY.
I love using photography and filmmaking to document the changing tides of life.
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The most commonly featured photos on this website are of my 爷爷 (ye ye's) desk in my grandparents' apartment in Guangzhou, China.
Taken by my friend in Nanchang, China, using my dad's old Minolta film camera. August 2025.
Me in a nutshell :)
Since I was young, film and storytelling have surrounded me. Using a camcorder, my dad recorded our family spontaneously, capturing my brother and me together so we would never lose these blissful moments of our childhood. My mom read a storybook to me that my grandma had bought in China titled 365 夜 (365 Nights), nurturing my imagination and planting seeds for my love of storytelling.
My love for film developed when my mom took me to the International Film Festival that her school, Spokane Falls Community College, hosted every year. In the historic and charming Garland Theater, I became transfixed by the images on the screen. Films such as Hirokazu Koreada's Shoplifters left a permanent imprint on me and gave me the desire to want to make films.
I've worked on many sets in various roles and directed my own narrative short films (two in NYC, one in Prague). I'm currently in post-production for 365 Nights, a short film inspired by the 365 Nights storybook. I've also worked on documentary videos and am currently developing and editing various short documentaries. In my work, I seek to show the intricacies of human relationships and incorporate themes of memory, nostalgia, loss, and transformation/rebirth.
I'm grateful for my undergraduate education at Columbia University, where I studied History and Film and decided to switch from a pre-law track to filmmaking after my freshman year. I'm also grateful to have had the opportunity to study abroad at the Film and TV Academy of the Performing Arts in Prague (FAMU), where I gained production skills and co-directed a short film shot on 16mm.
I am also passionate about education and am currently working as an afterschool teacher in Sunset Park, teaching English to recently immigrated kids from China. My students write beautiful poems, inspiring me to view the world with a keener, more poetic sensibility. I also tutor children in the Sunset Park community in Mandarin, math, and reading.
I'm always hoping to collaborate on projects! Please reach out to me if you are interested in collaboration. Filmmaking has allowed me to meet so many wonderful people and I'm so excited to connect with more.