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2026
AMBITIOUS
3 LEFT HANDED LADIES | EL RIDE PRODUCTIONS
A 2022 Sundance Institute Asian American COLLAB Scholarship Recipient, the series demonstrates college pressure for a first-generation student, interracial relationships, exploring one own's sexuality, cultural and academic identities, as well as the over-glamorized hustle culture.
Production Design
TERESA BURNS
Series Director
REIGNA WREN | KAYA PROCTOR | SOPHIA YOU
Creators
JENNA LAM | SAMANTHA K. TAN
Series Writer
VISAKHA BUN | CHRIS DANG | MARY KETHYA KHUON | HANN MCEWEN | KHAILA MONET | SOPHIA YOU
Executive Producer
JENNA LAM | SAMANTHA K. TAN | DAVID LUGO | WES HULL
Art Director
MAE CLAIRE
Series Director of Photography
EUNAH LEE | MICHAEL THACKARY
Sketch for character bedroom
Ambitious BTS photos by Emai Lai
Ambitious BTS photos by Emai Lai
Sketch for character bedroom
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BEHIND THE SCENES
Ambitious is a 6 episode drama-comedy series that follows an impatient, bold Vietnamese-Cambodian-American girl who navigates her new life as a college-dropout despite her immigrant mother's plans for her. This series dives into college pressure, academic and financial illiteracy, sexual identities, interracial relationships and balancing your own expectations with your family’s expectations. Partnering with 3 Left Handed Women and working with El Ride Productions, Ambitious was accepted into the 2022 Sundance & TAAF Fellowship and also got awarded with a $25,000 grant from Independent Public Media Foundation in November 2022. Soon after, the Cambodian Association of Greater Philadelphia became Ambitious LLC's fiscal sponsor.
Production block one was completed in March 2023, with approximately 60% of filming for episodes 1-4 completed. Fundraising for the project is ongoing. Please visit thisisambitious.com to learn how to support this series!
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