About
How I Started
I've always liked telling stories. Even in my career as a software developer, I realized that my passion was to teach and inform. This started a long road to become a filmmaker.
When I was eighteen, I saw the first documentary that really affected me: Streetwise:
I sat there watching this film about homeless kids in Seattle and something amazing happened. I got engaged with the story of real people first the first time. It was the first time I realized how important storytelling was to me. Making documentaries has been a special gift. It has allow me to ask difficult questions of myself while exploring the lives of the people around me. I love it.
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Hatching a Plan
I knew that I wanted to make films. In this year, I sat down with a Cinematographer friend and asked her how films were made. Soon after, I bought that first camera and started to learn how to shoot films.
Short Films
After a year of trial and error, I finally had filmed and edited my first two short films. It was a triumph to see how the tools and techniques could gel into cohesive narratives.
Watch "Drawn to the Hub"
The First Feature
After five years of hard work, me and my team finished my First feature-length documentary: "Hello World". It took longer than expected, but we found a distributor and released it in dozens of countries.
Watch Hello World Trailer"Man Enough to Heal"
I am going to continue to make films. I've been working on a new film since we got to 'final cut' on Hello World. This film is a more personal story than even Hello World was. I admire all the people involved in this film as the topic of childhood sexual trauma is one that needs to be told.
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