1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? My first professionally directed work was, Edgecombe, which premiered in 2018. Edgecombe is set in Edgecombe County, North Carolina and is an intergenerational story about the ways trauma repeats and reinvents itself in rural Black communities. It screened at the 2019 Sundance Film…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? My first professionally directed work was a music video for the record label Nettwerk Music Group a couple years ago. I didn’t take a salary on the job and actually ended up putting most of the budget for production, but it was first…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? My first professional work was an ad I did for the CycleBar in my hometown at the end of 2017. I had done videography before then, mainly personal travel videos and a few ads for family friends’ companies, but the CycleBar gig was…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? Street Heroines, a feature length documentary on the courage and creativity of female graffiti and street artists, is my first professionally directed work. I started working on the film several years ago and it is currently in post production. 2) How did you get…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? My film Hatched was my first professionally directed work, and we shot at Milo McIver State Park near Portland, Oregon in October of 2018. The film tells the story of Kay, who has recently suffered a loss in her life. When her grief manifests…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? My first professional job was a product video brochure for the Mercedes-Benz CLS in 2018. I was working as a creative director for their AOR and I had a good rapport with the production company that was handling the job. It was the…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? In the fall 2016, I was on the agency side producing a series of interactive social films for the mouse-trap brand, Tomcat. The concept was a "cabin in the woods" slasher featuring a cast of mouse puppets who all met violent and elaborate deaths….
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? A series of cooking themed webisodes featuring famed chefs Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Wolfman, wherein Dracula could not prepare any recipes with garlic, Frankenstein wouldn’t cook with an open flame and Wolfman refused to wear a hair net. 2) How did you get…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it? My first commissioned work was my short film for Laura Lémerveil, my NDS entry. The short is a tender and human account of Victor and his non-verbal, wheelchair-bound daughter Annie, and the profound effect her arrival in the world has had on him,…
1) What was your first professionally directed work and when was it Somfy – Better Safe than worry. 02/2017 2) How did you get into directing? I was raised in the countryside. A place where every day is groundhog day. I always wanted to make things different and unseen. On my way to peculiar i…