Fifteen years ago I bought my first camera and started shooting and editing videos with friends. Over time I created my own home school-film school with books, tutorial videos, and a lot of trial and error. These days I'm focused on collaborative projects that lean on a team of people who do each job far better than I was able to as a one-person crew. As a director my goal is to get the best possible performances from actors and to create an environment where the crew can bring their best, most creative ideas.
BOIFRIEND
Short film, 2022. "A gay cis woman's father is surprisingly happy when she brings her transmasc boyfriend home, but she soon realizes he's only happy because she's in a straight-passing relationship."
Boifriend won the Audience Award at its premiere festival, OUT at the Movies!
This was an extremely collaborative project. I had a seed of an idea and sent a cold email to a writer in the hopes that they'd want to collaborate. We wrapped production three months after that email was sent (no need to ask about post...). Lane Michael Stanley and I co-directed, produced, and wrote and built the story around interviews and improv with the actors.
Boifriend won the Audience Award at its premiere festival, OUT at the Movies!
This was an extremely collaborative project. I had a seed of an idea and sent a cold email to a writer in the hopes that they'd want to collaborate. We wrapped production three months after that email was sent (no need to ask about post...). Lane Michael Stanley and I co-directed, produced, and wrote and built the story around interviews and improv with the actors.
PINSETTER
Short comedy screenplay (12 pages), 2022. "Riley doesn't love her job setting pins at the local bowling alley, but a new hire could change things." This script made the Semifinals at Slamdance in 2021, the Quarterfinals for HollyShorts 2022, and it's been in the top 4% of discoverable scripts on Coverfly.
Pinsetter is inspired by my first job setting pins at the Fischer Bowling Club. Nine-pin is an old school German style of bowling that's still around in Central Texas, but because they don't make pinsetting machines for nine-pin you recruit the local pre-teen to do it in exchange for whatever your team wants to pay them at the end of the night. For us it was a chance to hang out *just* unsupervised enough to feel like we were having a wild Friday night. My first goal with this short was to tell a funny story set in a world most people never get to experience. My other goal was to tell a story my inner middle schooler could live through vicariously - a young queer kid in rural Texas in the 90s finds romance and acceptance through a playful, lighthearted story.
As of February 2023 we are officially in pre-production and hoping to film in July 2023.
Pinsetter is inspired by my first job setting pins at the Fischer Bowling Club. Nine-pin is an old school German style of bowling that's still around in Central Texas, but because they don't make pinsetting machines for nine-pin you recruit the local pre-teen to do it in exchange for whatever your team wants to pay them at the end of the night. For us it was a chance to hang out *just* unsupervised enough to feel like we were having a wild Friday night. My first goal with this short was to tell a funny story set in a world most people never get to experience. My other goal was to tell a story my inner middle schooler could live through vicariously - a young queer kid in rural Texas in the 90s finds romance and acceptance through a playful, lighthearted story.
As of February 2023 we are officially in pre-production and hoping to film in July 2023.
