I’m Melvern — filmmaker, wushu athlete, and someone who genuinely cannot sit still.
I grew up in Semarang, moved to Jakarta, and somewhere between dropping a cybersecurity course I hated and picking up a camera I couldn’t put down, I figured out what I actually wanted to do. Tell stories. Specifically the kind nobody else is bothering to tell.
I’ve been competing in wushu since 2015 and have served as an IWUF-certified commentator at three international championships — including World Junior Wushu Championships in Tangerang and Brunei, and the Taolu World Cup in Yokohama. I won bronze at the 2024 Indonesian National Sports Games (PON). So when I make films about athletes, I’m not an outsider looking in. I know what it feels like to stand at the starting line.
That’s the core of what I do: I shoot the story the recap video misses. Not the scores. Not the highlights reel. The athlete at 5am before anyone’s watching. The moment right before everything either clicks or falls apart.
Outside of sports, I chase the kind of places that don’t show up in travel brochures. Mountains, coastlines, anywhere that takes some actual effort to get to. I want to document the world — local culture, real people, honest moments. I care a lot about how things look and feel, not just what they show.
If you need cinematic travel content, sports documentary work, or branded video that doesn’t feel like an ad — let’s talk.
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L’EXIGENCE — Paris, 2025
A short film shot inside the Louvre, drawing a parallel between two disciplines built on the same obsession: precision. The script draws from the museum’s marble halls as a metaphor for wushu — both arts demanding total intentionality, both forged through repetition rather than declaration.
Concept, direction, and edit by Melvern Liang. Shot on location in Paris.
Can You Let Go?
Documentary Film · In Development · Asian Games 2026 · Aichi-Nagoya, Japan
A cinematic documentary about wushu athletes competing at the 20th Asian Games — told not from the podium, but from the inside.
Built around a single question that every athlete carries but rarely speaks: can you let go of everything you want, at the exact moment you want it most?
The film follows an ensemble of athletes from across Asia through one competition venue — from the empty floor before anyone arrives, to the silence after everything has been decided. Threading underneath is a conversation between two former rivals the night before competition, whose voices become the film’s backbone and its conscience.
Can You Let Go? is not a recap. It is a portrait of pressure, surrender, and the leap of faith that separates performance from transcendence.
Directed, shot, and narrated by a wushu athlete. Screening at the close of the wushu event at the Asian Games — for the athletes who lived it, in the venue where it happened.
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