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
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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, as well as Best LGBTQ Short at Poppy Jasper International Film Festival. |
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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. Lane Michael Stanley and I co-directed, produced, and wrote a story using interviews 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.
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.
