Artist Profiles (in progress)
Creating short promotional videos about artists at Creativity Explored. CE is a studio in San Francisco that partners with artists with developmental disabilities to celebrate and nurture the creative potential in all of us.
https://www.creativityexplored.org/
Documentary (in progress), to be completed Fall 2024
I am working with Densho to create a documentary series about the organization’s documentation of the testimonies of Japanese Americans who were unjustly incarcerated during World War II before their memories are extinguished.
https://densho.org/
Documentary, 10 minutes
Director, Editor
Completed in 2022
The Merry Widow is a radioactive "health spa" located in the heart of an abandoned mine in Montana, and the site of the filmmaker's efforts to come to grips with his mother's ovarian cancer diagnosis.
Winner, Distinctive Piece Award, DOCUtah
Screenings
Montana International Film Festival, Red Rock Film festival, Tiburon FIlm Festival, Tucson Film & Music Film Festival, Fargo Film Festival, San Francisco Frozen Film Festival, San Jose International Short Film Festival, Alameda International Film Festival, Grand Junction Film Festival
Augmented Reality audio walking tour, 45 minutes
Writer, Producer
Completed in 2016
Working with the audio platform Detour and collaborating with former members of the Black Panther Party for Self Defense David Hilliard, Emory Douglas, and Billy X Jennings, I wrote and produced a phone-based, geo-located walking tour in North Oakland. The tour visits a number of historically significant sites – Huey P. Newton’s childhood home, the Panthers’ first headquarters, etc – activating hundreds of discrete sound elements along the path (including music by the Panther’s house band, The Lumpen). The tour was featured in the Oakland Museum of California’s “All Power to the People: The Black Panthers at 50” exhibit last Fall.
Here is an NBC Bay Area article about the tour, and here is a KALW segment that features five minutes of the tour.
The entire tour can be listened to on the Internet Archive here.
Twelve-part video series, 60 mins
Producer, 2020
Produced and supervised six St Marys College students as they created twelve short videos about the 2020 California Ballot measures in partnership with the League of Women Voters of California.
Documentary, 12 minutes
Writer, Director, Editor
Completed in 2010
Super 16mm, Super 8mm
A personal documentary that explores the filmmaker’s ambivalent relationship to his mother’s physical disabilities and chronicles his attempts to be at peace with her suffering and disfigurement. It is a mixed-media portrait, alternating between the present – in which his mother battles a staph infection and prepares for a major surgery – and recollections of the filmmaker’s past. The film draws upon a variety of poetic evocations, including recreations of childhood memories, to express the love and anxiety, and the protectiveness and dread, that has defined his relationship with his mother.
Awards: South by Southwest Film Festival – Best Short Documentary, Focus Film Festival - Best of Festival, Audience Choice Award, Cinema Touching Disability – 1st Place, Emerging Filmmakers, Picture This Intl Disability Film Festival – Best Short Documentary, Fargo Film Festival – Honorable Mention, Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival – Jury Award Finalist, Superfest Intl Disability Film Festival – Merit Award
Screenings: San Francisco State University MFA thesis screening, San Francisco State University 50th Film Finals, Edmonton Disability Film Showcase , Sonoma International Film Festival, Reel Life Disability Film Festival, Open City London Documentary Film Festival, Palm Springs International Shortfest, AFI/Discovery Channel Silverdocs Film Festival, DocUtah, South Dakota Film Festival, Quadrangle Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival , Lightbox presents Supershorts, SF Docfest, SFFS Cinema by the Bay
Documentary, 8 mins
Director
A short film about the efforts of a blind woman with multiple sclerosis to demonstrate to her family that she can live independently. Created in partnership with the Wayfinder Family Services Hatlen center in San Pablo, Ca.
Multimedia Sociological Research
Technical Producer
The Beyond Bullying Project asks “what happens when we think about LGBTQ sexuality in schools beyond risks like bullying, poor mental health, and dropping out”. What about love, family, friendship and even our favorite movie and television stars? How do these stories of LGBTQ life come up and what does school need to do to make room for them?
Using a video storytelling booth of their own design, the Beyond Bullying Project team collected hundreds of candid audio, video and written stories from high schoolers on three US campuses: in Minneapolis, New York City, and San Francisco.
Visit the Beyond Bullying Project website
Video Series, 17 minutes
Writer, Director, Editor
Created in 2013
Mozilla’s Popcorn Story Camp was a free online learning lab where learners could connect live with high profile guest speakers, engage in creative learning activities, and share their progress with others.
Popcorn Story Camp was built around a six chapter video curriculum that walks users through the process of creating a web-native film.
Learn more about Mozilla Story Camp.
Narrative, 8 minutes
Writer, Director, Editor
Completed in 2006
A young couple in a new relationship struggle to find the balance between safety and vulnerability.
Awards: Murphy Fellowship - The San Francisco Foundation, Portland International Short Film Festival Special Jury Award
Screenings: Mill Valley Film Festival, Exhibited at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
