Los Angeles, California, United States
I am drawn to people and projects that have a unique voice and collaborate with them to tell their story.
Graphic Design and Branding for independent filmmakers, musicians and artists: opening titles, interstitials, posters, logos, merchandise, and social media assets. Projects & Clients: • I HEAR YOU. The Oxfam/Vanity Fair campaign to connect with the stories of refugees. Created the graphics to satisfy the branding requirements of two giants in their respective industries. • PRINCESS. A Prince cover band featuring Maya Rudolph and Gretchen Lieberum. • REVERSION. • ROCKETMAN. • HIP HOP MAESTRO. • HOLLYWOOD HAIR. • LODESTAR FILMS. • GANGSTA WAGNER. • GRACE LEE. • KIM BOYCE. • JULIE ANNE ROBINSON. • JESSICA RATH. • THOMAS THONSON. • GLENDALE MONTESSORI. • EASTSIDE ADVENTURE CLUB. • THE COLLECTIVE. • VERMONT RESTAURANT.
• WALTZ (Foolish Desire) - Directed and hand animated a deluxe lyric video for the LAs based folktronic duo SARGENT. • AHMET ZAPPA - Steve Isaacs & I shot an interview with Ahmet Zappa in support of his children's book launch for BECAUSE I'M YOUR DAD. The interview was edited into small social media friendly clips and rolled out over the course of the launch. I directed, shot and cut the pieces. • ENTRY - Part of the Promiscuous Materials Project, ENTRY N°20, based on author Jonathan Lethem’s short story “Entry of Buildings” is equal parts micro-documentary, visual poem, and dreamy investigation into what it is to enter one of the World’s Tallest Buildings. I directed, shot and cut the piece. • ORGANIZE THE TEAM - In support of the screening of the film HIP HOP MAESTRO at the Mill Valley Film Festival, daKAH Hip Hop Orchestra played an amazing show at the closing night party. I was invited to travel with the orchestra by HIP HOP MAESTRO filmmaker Christine Lee and conductor Geoff "Double G" Gallegos from LA 2 the Bay to document the trip. Shot on a Canon 60D, I cut together a music video/micro documentary to the Schoenberg-inspired song Organize the Team. • WOMEN LIKE YOU - Co-directed the award-winning documentary WOMEN LIKE YOU with Christine Lee. Christine & I shot interviews with high school girls, college women, professors, beauty and barbershop owners and their clients, women with AIDS, community organizers, homeless women and prostitutes. The central question of this documentary is "Why do African-American women have a disproportionately high rate of HIV/AIDS than their Latina, Asian and Caucasian contemporaries?" • SURVEILLANCE - Co-directed and co-edited a feature film with Chef's Table editor Brad Grossman. Surveillance recounts the last hours of a private detective. • SONG TO SNORE - Directed, shot & cut a short film to document the "sound sculpture" by artist Jessica Rath.
I started taking photographs with my dad's manual Nikon when I was a kid and became a professional photojournalist as a teenager. Shooting bands in concert is my favorite, but I also enjoy capturing artists and filmmakers at work. I'll even cover a demonstration or news event if you make me ;) Currently I have a photo of drummer Kate Schellenbach (Luscious Jackson, Beastie Boys) in the WHIPLASH documentary TIMEKEEPERS. Also, I contributed some photos to the Netflix documentary CHEF'S TABLE: MASSIMO BOTTURA directed by David Gelb (JIRO DREAMS OF SUSHI) which premiered at the 2015 Berlin Film Festival and is currently available on Netflix. • CHEF'S TABLE: MASSIMO BOTTURA. • TIMEKEEPERS. • DRUM MAGAZINE. • DAILY BRUIN. • VILLAGE VIEW. • LA TIMES. • CHRISTINE LEE. • MIA TRACHINGER. • STEPHEN TRIPLETT. • MARGUERITE INGHAM. • ¡PUSHBUTTONS!
When the New York Times Op-Doc WALK RUN CHA-CHA directed by Laura Nix got shortlisted for the Oscars®, producer Colette Sandstedt enlisted my help to revamp the original poster, create social media assets, and conform graphics to parameters set by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.
I HEAR YOU CAMPAIGN. http://www.vanityfair.com/style/2016/12/watch-celebrities-read-powerful-stories-from-refugees Vanity Fair and Producer/Director Julie Anne Robinson are working with Oxfam and CAA to amplify, in the first-person, the most universal and human stories of people fleeing conflict. Stories will be told – embodied – by powerful, relatable, and respected actors to influence people still searching for a point of view on complex refugee crises. Rather than emphasizing the tragic, desperate, and dramatic, each video will gently reveal what is most universal, relatable, and mundane in the lives of the refugees who are profiled. Our goal is to disarm the viewer and open them up to another perspective. Each video will be about 2-3 minutes long against a simple background, and the viewer may not even realize that the story is that of a refugee until well into the video. The viewer may even assume at first that it is the celebrity's own personal story. There will be no violins. There will be no exhaustive swoons. Rather, beautifully, simply… we will reveal the human experience of each life before and after they experienced conflict or war in places like Syria, DRC, Burundi, Lebanon and Tanzania.