Director
MAY 2023 | Stronger Than Fiction Festival
Award of Excellence, CPOY Multimedia: Documentary Short
2023-2024 Hearst Journalism Awards, Multimedia Narrative Storytelling Competition, Fourth Place
Kansas City FilmFest International (KCFFI)
What happens when the greatest source of life becomes the biggest threat to living? Exposed documents a rare disease called Xeroderma Pigmentosum (XP), characterized by an “intense allergy to sunlight." After surviving half a century, one woman continues to find meaning in the absence of light.
EXPOSED
MUSIC & MEMORY
Director
MAY 2023 | Columbia Missourian
Music & Memory is a short documentary that explores the power of music for managing dementia and other neurodegenerative diseases. Local music therapist Harry Beckett has led sessions in and around Columbia, Missouri, for nearly 15 years.
Musical memory is stored differently in the brain, allowing us to retain and retrieve the words to certain melodies even amid memory loss. It also carries an emotional connection in our brains, enhancing its long-term storage.
GAZE
Cinematographer
Dir. Morgan Hadley
MAY 2023 | Stronger Than Fiction Festival
WINNER, SPECIAL JURY AWARD FOR CINEMATOGRAPHY
“Gaze” takes a meta approach to the embodied experience of the male gaze. Inescapable and predatory, this phenomenon affects the way in which women internally visualize themselves and outwardly interact with the world.
SOUL SESSIONS
Director
APRIL 2022 | Columbia Missourian
Soul Sessions COMO is a group of musicians and artists that come together monthly to bring live soul music to Columbia, Missouri. Creative Director Josh Runnels, or J.ARTiz, aims to give a space for community, education, art and music to thrive. Soul Sessions features music from the “MO’ SOUL Collective” as well as a variety of other genres.