1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it The first spot I directed was for Carerra Sunglasses in Malibu, CA. in the spring of 2017. I had the pleasure of seeing parts of Malibu I most likely wouldn’t have. After taking a break at a local watering hole, I heard the…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? About two years ago I directed a piece for a United Nations initiative. It was a project where all of the impact and meaning came directly from the framing, so it was a really good fit for a first directing project. The experience really…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? My first professionally directed video was a music video for Ravyn Lenae’s song “4 Leaf Clover” featuring Steve Lacy commissioned by Atlantic records. We shot the video in February of 2018. It was released that following April. The music video is a cheeky…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it I directed my first television commercial(s) for broadcast for Lifetime TV in January 2018, as part of their #BeyondFirsts campaign. The campaign highlighted African American pioneers in politics, sports and aviation. I wrote and directed two commercials. One commercial highlighted tennis legend Althea…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? I had been doing a bunch of video competitions in between producing jobs, but landed my first professional work in 2016. It was a cosmetics commercial for Japan. One of the producers I work with took a leap of faith and hired me…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? That’s a tough question to answer as I’ve been into filmmaking since I was very young. I’ve been working with the same group of people since the very beginning and the only thing that has changed are the size of the projects we…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? My first professionally directed work was actually two projects happening simultaneously for the same indie pop artist (Dawn Richard). The first project was a VR experience that premiered with WIRED Magazine, and went on to be featured at VR Days Europe 2016 as…
http://dictionaryfilms.com/1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? The One Chicago campaign for Ogilvy in 2017. I interviewed and directed 40 stories of immigration over four days–part of the City of Chicago’s efforts to unify the city and celebrate and protect its immigrants and refugees. We captured a wide range of…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? It was the short film TESS, which I directed in 2017. TESS portrays the near future where highly advanced humanoid AIs are present. It digs into one of our fundamental emotions, loneliness or isolation, through characters interacting with an AI. This project received…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? Most of my commercial work has been as a cinematographer, so outside of a few music videos I consider this spec commercial for Tinder to be my first time directing. 2) How did you get into directing? I co-own Pan Up Productions with…