Thank you so much for checking out my website and exploring some of my past work. I always enjoy meeting new collaborators and taking on fresh creative endeavors, so please reach out any time. And at the risk of a little navel gazing, here is a small slice of my cinematic origin story.

After graduating from Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, I worked for 15 years as a newspaper and magazine reporter — and later a multimedia documentarian — in New York City and Washington DC. I covered everything from the financial underpinnings of the 2008 housing market collapse to wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, from Wall Street to Capitol Hill. All the while, I continued to add skills — photography, video journalism, documentary filmmaking, audio storytelling, and data visualization — as print media contracted and eyes and ears migrated to new mediums.

In 2013, I made a documentary that changed the course of my career. Along with six other collaborators, we documented a disastrous housing policy quietly executed by City Hall that, in effect, covertly pushed homeless residents out of the District of Columbia. Unsettled went on to headline the capital’s Our City Film Festival, where it captured the attention of incoming Mayor Muriel Bowser’s administration. Shortly thereafter, this cruel policy was reversed. Through this experience I realized I had to go all in on filmmaking.

So I went on to earn an MFA in Film Production from UCLA. To date I have directed four short films and produced 18 others, including one feature-length movie. My scripted short film Faro screened at the Cannes Film Festival, Oscar-qualifying Dances With Films LA, and the Munich International Film Festival, amongst others. I am currently in post-production on my latest project — Holdfast — for which I was awarded an Alfred P. Sloan Institute Grant for my original screenplay about a troubled oceanographer isolated at a research station in the Channel Islands.

Above all I aim to tell cinematic stories that are grounded in reality, yet intimately and specifically framed to create windows into often overlooked circumstances and experiences affecting real people and communities. 

Thank you again for stopping by for a visit! I am excited for all the future holds and all the movies and spots to be made!