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Kanica Him is a dynamic videographer, editor, and visual storyteller whose work powerfully bridges underground culture, social justice, and electric entertainment. Based in Florida, she operates through her creative studio House of Kans, where she champions historically excluded voices and transforms raw truth into visual legacy. With roots in dance, performance, and documentary filmmaking, Kanica uses her lens to disrupt, to heal, and to fiercely celebrate the communities she belongs to and stands beside.

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As a Cambodian and Chinese American woman, Kanica’s identity is woven into her approach—offering a perspective often absent from mainstream media while creating space for radical representation, cultural integrity, and cross-generational knowledge. Her projects reflect a deep reverence for lineage, both artistic and ancestral, and an unshakable belief in the power of storytelling as a force for liberation.

Her technical repertoire includes camera credits working with leading organizations such as NowThis News and Change.org, the raw and introspective comedy documentary Chris Gethard: Half My Life (No Cool Kids, 2021), and even collaborating early in her career with PBS. She’s proficient across Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro X, After Effects, and DaVinci Resolve, bringing a distinct visual language and editorial precision to every frame.

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Kanica is also the Director of Media for Dance People by Ovations Global Network Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit using dance and media to empower underserved communities. Through this role, she produces fundraising and educational content, writes grant proposals, and documents folkloric and street dance forms to preserve their cultural significance.

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Her camera has captured the heartbeat of legendary street dance, working closely with icons whose influence shaped entire movements. She documented Archie Burnett—grandfather of the House of Ninja and pioneer of House, Whacking, and Vogue—during an intimate shoot at his family home, coinciding with her nonprofit’s screening of Check Your Body at the Door. In 2017, she filmed the late Tyrone "The Bone" Proctor, a pioneer of Waacking, during her production of the Soul Train Experience, a landmark event honoring the aesthetics and activism of Black dance history. Her work also includes close collaboration with Punking pioneer Viktor Manoel, capturing his powerful storytelling and performance legacy through his involvement in What the Punk Fest, Florida’s first international underground gay urban dance and music festival and LGBTQ+ safe space initiative.

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Whether capturing experimental dance films, directing grassroots shoots, or mentoring youth through media education (as she did with Computer Mentors Group), Kanica’s work is grounded in one mission: to use media as a tool for community empowerment, intergenerational knowledge transfer, and radical joy.

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Her camera doesn’t just observe—it collaborates. It archives, activates, and affirms. With an eye for motion, a heart for people, and a sharp sense of humor, Kanica Him turns the everyday into the epic—offering not just content, but connection, history, and an uncompromising call to action through art.