FILMS

As a director, writer and producer, I specialize in cinematic non-fiction storytelling that explores the intersections of art, social issues, and science.

Between Minds

Producer – Co-directed with artist Peter Coffin

A wildly creative documentary about the scientists and visionaries exploring interspecies communication between humans and other beings.

Feature length / In Production

Exiled

Producer, Director, Cinematographer

Two military veterans, both green card immigrants willing to die for their country, find themselves deported to Mexico for their crimes and are now fighting to be heard.  Exiled is a persuasive and intimate look at the human consequences of current U.S. immigration policy. 

2017 / 30 min / More Info >

The Courageous Queens of Compton’s Cafeteria Riot Inspire a New Generation

Producer, Director, Editor, Cinematographer

A short film about the little-known history of an uprising against the police by the city’s trans community in the late 60’s. Blending archival footage with verité documentation of an immersive theater production that tells the story of the riot, the creative layering of history amplifies its current relevance. 

2018 / 7 min 

Kiana’s Mission

Producer – Co-directed by Kiana Calloway and Carl Byker

After seventeen years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit, Kiana Calloway is on a mission to  help young New Orleans black men like himself understand - and work against - the insidious forces that feed America’s prison-industrial machine.

Feature length / In Production

Hello Out There

Director, Writer, Editor

A short animated portrait of astronomer Frank Drake, a key figure in the history of the human Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI). Drake led the team to design the first coordinated efforts to send messages into outer space with the intention of communicating with extraterrestrial intelligent beings.

Short film / In Production

Blessed Fruit

Co-director, Cinematographer – Co-directed with Charlene Music and Peter Jordan

Undeterred by the power of the church, corrupt politics, and a male-dominated culture where they've even been threatened with lynching, Evelyn and Ester, two indigenous Guatemalans, courageously travel the mountains and valleys of their native country on a quest to provide family planning education and access to birth control methods to women. 

WINNER – Best short doc SF Shortsfest. Official  selection UNAFF

2014 / 26 min

The Most Distant Places

Director, Producer, Cinematographer 

A small team of Ecuadorian doctors expanding the possibilities of rural health for their own country.

OFFICIAL SELECTION – Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival. Narrated by Peter Coyote

2010 / 35 min