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DOCUMENTARY FILM

Will Congress Fulfill a 184-Year-Old Promise?

Producer, editor & camera (documentary short for The Atlantic, 2019)

In accordance with a centuries-old treaty, Kimberly Teehee is on a quest to give the Cherokee Nation a voice.

God Bless the Cook

Co-Director (documentary short, 2019)

Nashville Film Festival, Catalina Film Festival, IndieShorts, LA Women's Doc Fest

Chef Roslyn Spence trained at Le Cordon Bleu in Paris, but her biggest critic remains her mother, a 94-year-old self-taught cook for Hollywood’s Golden Era stars. Selected as one of three graduate-level documentary thesis films funded by the University of Southern California.

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Gods from Space

Director & animator (documentary short, 2018)

Slamdance, American Documentary Film Festival, NFFTY (Documentary Short Jury Award nominee), Oakland Drunk Film Festival, DocLA Film Festival (Silver Award Winner), Austin Arthouse Film Festival (Nominee for Best Documentary and Best Spiritual Film)

Welcome to The Aetherius Society, a religion where Jesus was an alien, prayer can be stored in a battery, and an unusual but kind-hearted community works towards the betterment of humanity.

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Santa Muerte

Director & editor (documentary short, 2017)

This Spanish-language documentary explores the Los Angeles temple of Santa Muerte, a growing religious movement that worships death herself.

Astonishing

Director & cinematographer (documentary short, 2016)

Slamdance Film Festival and the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

In the wake of the 2016 election, Los Angeles students respond by creating art.

WRITING & MULTIMEDIA PIECES

Calamity Janes: Women of the Wild Gay West

Writer, photographer, & cinematographer (multimedia documentary piece, 2019)This long-form visual story takes a ride with the LGBT cowgirls of California’s gay rodeo. Created as a year-long senior thesis for USC's Cultural Anthropology department.