1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?The first film I directed is a short titled “Foul Play: The Margaret Lambert Story,” a 24 minute documentary for The Olympic Channel I made in July 2016 that made it’s way through the festival circuit.In 1936 German-Jewish track & field athlete, Margaret “Gretel”…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?The television series Greenleaf on OWN in the fall of 2015. That’s when I got my DGA card! I directed 2nd unit for several episodes, which was a combination of environment work and crowd tiling. 2) How did you get into directing? Storytelling has been…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?My first professionally directed work was a branded fashion film for the clothing company For Love & Lemons. It was released in 2016 and screened at the Milan Fashion Film Festival. 2) How did you get into directing? I got into directing via editing. I…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?Both Minding the Gap, my feature directorial debut, and America to Me, which I was a segment director on, premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2018. 2) How did you get into directing? I started making my own films as a teenager and kept doing so…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?My first professionally directed work is an online spot for Embassy Suites Hotels celebrating awesome moms on Mother’s Day. This was when I was at Y&R Chicago in 2016. 2) How did you get into directing? I got into filmmaking in general when I was…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?I directed a film for HP a few years ago. 2) How did you get into directing? I have been a photographer for my entire adult life. I love documenting people and youth culture and through the photographic experience you end up learning a lot…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?My first true dive into directing was with my short film, Girl Night Stand. I created the short as a proof of concept for my feature, Lez Bomb. I released the short film online in order to demonstrate there was an audience for Lez…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?A little over two years ago, I was art directing at Atlantic Records and was asked to direct the official music video for Toyboy & Robin’s newly released track, "Save Me Now." The concept for the film was to let the music drive two…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?My first directing piece was the NIKE “BE A BALLERina” spec commercial. It was completed in November 2017. 2) How did you get into directing? After high school, I attended the acting conservatory of The Theatre School at DePaul University, Chicago. I was cut from…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it?The first professional work I made was with DDB for the Tribeca film festival. It was this experimental project that was a blend of a doc/performance. We asked people to wear these mirrored boxes as faces around New York. It provoked a curious interaction…