The child of refugees, Cambodian filmmaker Bacchus Pseudanor’s work is a unique blend of their Buddhist upbringing, Greek mythology and the various East and Southeast Asian media they grew up watching. This explains why Bacchus explores themes of suffering in relation to body horror and self-identity, resulting in writing hyperbolic supernatural stories centered on puberty and its horrors. Besides suffering, Bacchus also writes in elements of non-romantic love, vengeance and plenty of critique about white American society based on his own observations of the world, such as the nuclear family. Raised by a village of a father, half-siblings and cousins, he never saw positive representations of his family in media, only ever seeing non-parental guardians portrayed as pitiful, he seeks to change that by writing unconventional family dynamics. Besides screenwriting Bacchus enjoys being a producer and creating archival documentaries on various Asian historical subjects, alongside dabbling with art installations, stand up comedy and attempting to live up to his Greco-Roman namesake.