FILM AND TELEVISION WORK

I just finished as  editor of two episodes of a series called MAGIC CITY: AN AMERICAN FANTASY about the premiere all-Black strip club in ATL that has helped define hip hop culture. It's a five-episode series for Starz that will come out summer 2025. The series is directed by Chas Todd and Bayan Joonan is showrunner. Its EPs include Drake and Jermaine Dupri. Production company is NYC's Scheme Engine. The show is executed intelligently and with taste – a  good mix of archival and interview. It has commercial finesse that's fresh for the documentary genre.

Also coming out this year is an HBO docu-series I co-edited about Tawana Brawley and the controversial grand jury trial that followed her rape accusation in the 80s.  

I’ve been directing forever, it seems,  a documentary called 5 DAYS – an intimate portrait of a man who faces a five-day trial and 30 years in prison for child molestation. I really hope one day I’ll get it done. It’s an important film.

I’ll let you check out my imDb for a full list of credits but some highlights:

In 2022 I directed six episodes of the reality docu-follow SISTER WIVES for TLC/Discovery. (Yes, the “knife in the kidney” episode.) That same year I also directed WASTELAND for Seether (Fantasy Records), a personal favourite, which won the award for Best Cinematography at the California Music Video Awards and has over 2.5 million views on YouTube. Sandwiched in between that was three seasons of a digital cooking show called COOKING WITH JUST CHRISTINE for TLC  featuring reality star Christine Brown. 

In 2021, my edit work for the archival-heavy, interview-driven PRIDE (Hulu/FX)  came out. My episodes detail the political movement of the LGBTQ+ movement: 1960s (Director: Andrew Ahn) and 1970s (Director: Cheryl Dunye). It was nominated for a Gotham Award for Best Documentary Series.

One of my most successful projects still my first short documentary, ELDER, which I directed and edited. It's the story of Tom Clark who was a Mormon missionary in Italy during the 70s and fell in love with a Communist man. It was nominated for Best Short Doc at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival and is featured on the Emmy award-winning New York Times Op-Docs series. It went on to win a jury prize for Best Short Documentary at the Napa Valley Film Festival. 

Another favorite is the music video GAME TO LOSE (2017) for indie-folk supergroup I’m With Her (Rounder Records). It was featured in Rolling Stone, Variety, The Guardian, JamBase and Daily Motion.

I’ve also had the pleasure of being paid to film music videos, short documentaries, and promos for Steve Martin, Andrew Bird, Béla Fleck & Abigail Washburn, the Violent Femmes, The Record Company, and Lindsey Sterling. My 13-year-old self can’t believe I actually got to do that.