CV 2017-2020
Directing
Monsters Be Here (dir) A woman house-sits during the height of the pandemic to escape a relationship. 29th Annual St. Louis International Film Festival (2020)
Skin the Wire- (dir) Status - Narrative coming of age short. At a pop up carnival, the bond between 4 teenage friends is challenged by the freak show and the ever-elusive game, the Wacky Wire. World Premiere - New York Shorts International Film Festival (2019)
The Phoenix and the Dove- (dir) Doc/animation hybrid focusing on Bedford Hills College Program student Connie Leung and her graphic book made out of found objects in prison. Recently screened as part of a conference hosted by the New York Coalition for Higher Education in Prison.
The Weathergirl- (dir) Status-Development/Fundraising. Feature film written by Elena Zucker.
Weird Wednesdays- (dir) Status - Development/Fundraising - Composer and instrument inventor Terry Dame will bring her Weird Wednesdays series to the Catskills. Web series showcasing musicians performing invented instruments and talk back sessions on how their inventions work.
Editing
Perfectly Frank (editor) Documentary featured in DOC NYC 2020. Frank, a retired Long Island accountant married for nearly 50 years, comes out in his late 60s.
Veral (editor/co-producer) (Final Post) A High Plains, neo-Gothic story of a city-slicker reporter hunting out a scoop in a brutal, gruesome, rural landscape.
Yomeddine - (editor) - Feature film directed by AB Shawky/Produced by Dina Emam. World premiere at the Cannes Film Festival 2018. (nominated Palme d'Or award). Yomeddine is about a man who leaves his home in a leper colony and embarks on a journey across Egypt to find out why he was abandoned as a child. Egyptian submission for Best International film 91st Annual Oscars.
The Drummer (editor) (2019) Starring Danny Glover. Feature length film. Three interwoven stories reveal the traumatic effects of war on the psyches of veterans from different generations. World Premiere Woodstock International Film Festival (2020)
Crazy Ex Girlfriend Behind the Scenes (2019) Behind the Scenes documentary on the series finale for the award winning CBS show, Crazy Ex Girlfriend. Submitted for Emmy Consideration Outstanding Picture Editing for a Non Fiction Program. Premiere Austin Film Festival (2019)
Hunting in Wartime- (editor/co-producer) - Feature length documentary profiling the extraordinary stories of Tlingit Vietnam War veterans from the village of Hoonah, Alaska. Distributed through New Day films. TV version broadcast nationally through PBS. Screened at festivals domestic and international. Winner of the Big Sky Award/Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
Bedford Hills College Program- (dir/editor) - Profile piece. As the sole degree-granting institution of the BHCP since 1997, Marymount Manhattan College has awarded more than 200 academic degrees to the incarcerated women of Bedford Hills Correctional Facility, New York State’s only women’s maximum-security prison.
Educator + Filmmaking Mentor
Associate Professor Marymount Manhattan College
Courses taught
•Special Topics: Stand Up Speak Out - (course designer and professor) School-wide Arts + Social Justice festival featuring Marymount Manhattan College student-led research and response art in collaboration with the Bedford Hills College Course, Great Social Thinkers. The main goal to raise awareness of the Bedford Hills College Program and the Bedford Hills College Club http://mmcnewmedia.com/SUSO2020/
•Video Workshop
•Post Production
•Screenwriting
•Storytelling Across Media
•TV Studio
•Directing Fiction
•Capstone
•Festival Coordinator and Creator - Annual Stand Up Speak Out Film +
36 hour Play Festival (2015/2016/2017)
•Outstanding Faculty Award for Communication + Media Arts (2017)
Mentor
•Students for Justice
Director Filmmaking Program/Team Mentor (Summer 20, Fall 20)
•New School’s Doc Media Studies Program
Editing Consultant, Advisor (2019, 2020)
•The School of New York Times
Guest Lecture (2018, 2019, 2020)
•Hunter College MFA Program
Thesis Advisor (2019)
•Netherlands Meets New York Operational Seminar (NYC)
Editing consultant for the journalism program, "CampusDoc"(umentary), a bilingual course in crossmedia storytelling.
•Spark Filmmaking Program (El Gouna, Egypt)
Production Team Mentor/Editing Consultant for an intensive teen workshop focusing on all areas of filmmaking.
Guest Writer
•Film Independent
Three Things to Consider When Taking a Gig
•Filmmaker Magazine
Meeting Robert Redford the “during Sundance” blog
Q|A|M Program 2016-2017
Directed and Produced 4 original shorts as a filmmaking fellow in Ira Sach’s Queer Arts Mentorship Program/ Window installations at the Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art:
The Diver's Clothes- (dir) Based on the Rumi poem, our protagonist paints a portal to their own heart.
If I'm a Star- (dir) Adapting poet Jake Matkov’s poetry about his personal experience in the Amtrak derailment, we are walked through a gallery of objects from the event.
Smack Down- (dir) (Wrestling match parodying the infighting in the LGBT community between trans men and cis lesbian women.
A Mixed Catharsis- (dir/animator) Featuring zine work of writer Brendan Williams-Childs exploring trans identity through art.
Fellowships
•From Script to Preproduction Workshop - NYWIFT (2017)
•Finalist - Guggenheim Fellowship (2017)
•Ira Sach's Queer Art Mentorship (Film Fellow) (2016)