Creative technologist
I left the film industry for tech because I got tired of only talking about broken systems. I wanted to learn how to build the tools underneath them.
Software, AI workflows, product systems
Creative technologist, forward-deployed engineer, and founder building practical software for messy creative workflows.
I’m Mas Moriya, a Los Angeles-based builder who came out of film, community work, and Asian American storytelling, then moved into tech and computer programming. My work now sits between software, creative operations, AI workflows, and the entertainment industry I came from.
Los Angeles, CACreative TechnologistForward-Deployed EngineerFounder, Filmclusive
Forward-deployed engineer
I like working where the problem actually lives: inside real workflows, with real people, real constraints, and imperfect information.
Close to users, close to the mess
Founder @ Filmclusive
Filmclusive is my main build: a trust-based system for rosters, availability, referrals, and staffing in film, TV, and creative work.
Entertainment staffing infrastructure
Founder @ Strong Asian Lead
Strong Asian Lead started as a way to create practical space for Asian American creatives to meet, learn, and build outside the usual gatekeeping.
Community, education, AAPI creatives
Filmmaker, now builder
Film is still part of my foundation. It just is not the whole identity anymore. Enemy Alien lives here as a footnote, not the headline.
Story still matters
Build better rosters.
Availability, trust, referrals, and staffing for entertainment.
Filmclusive is the main thing I am building. Creative hiring is not clean, public, or objective. It runs through trust, memory, timing, DMs, spreadsheets, old collaborators, and people asking, “Do you know anyone?”
I am trying to make that informal system usable without pretending the industry works like a normal job board. The product is about rosters, availability checks, referrals, shortlists, and the handoff between knowing someone and actually booking them.
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Whycreativetechnology?
Because I have lived inside creative industries long enough to know the pain is not just artistic. It is operational. People lose time, money, access, and momentum because the systems around the work are bad.
Whyforward-deployedengineering?
Because I do not want to build from a clean room. I want to sit close to the workflow, understand the human behavior, and ship something useful before the perfect architecture fantasy eats the product.
WhyFilmclusive?
Entertainment hiring runs on trust, memory, texts, referrals, and timing. Filmclusive turns that informal system into something people can actually use: rosters, availability, referrals, shortlists, and staffing workflows.
Wheredoesfilmfitnow?
Film is the origin point, not the whole map. It taught me story, taste, history, people, politics, and production chaos. Tech became the way to build around the problems I kept seeing.
Whatshouldthishomepagedo?
It should orient people quickly: Mas Moriya, creative technologist and forward-deployed engineer, building Filmclusive, with separate paths into film, community, and photography.