LA Film, TV, Photography
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Project: SEEDS OF HOPE, Documentary, 40-Minutes
Role: Filmmaker, Photographer, Writer, Producer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Details: In partnership with the National Park Service, this was my final job working in Los Angeles. SEEDS OF HOPE was a dream project and culmination of prior films and experiences that took me to Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and Channel Islands National Park. The 40-minute documentary film and 120-page photography book of the same name was released and presented at the Patagonia store in Santa Monica on July 12, 2026.
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Project: SNOW TO SAND, Documentary, 60-Minutes
Role: Filmmaker, Producer, Writer, Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Details: SNOW TO SAND was a really rewarding, yet very challenging project in many ways, and I am incredibly proud of this film and what it would lead me to. The 60-minute documentary debuted at the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on October 28th, 2018 for the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the U.S. National Park Service’s National Trails System. My work on this project motivated me to personally get involved with the construction and maintenance of the Pacific Crest Trail, serve as an AmeriCorps State and National Member around it in the Angeles National Forest, and it eventually led me to working with the U.S. National Park Service doing conservation work related to topics from SNOW TO SAND, along with the creation of another documentary closely related, SEEDS OF HOPE.
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Project: Documentary Video & Photography
Role: Videographer, Photographer, Editor
Details: This portfolio is a collection of projects that range from documentary expedition photography from all over the world including a photograph I made in the Keslo Sand Dunes of Mojave National Preserve in California titled “Human Tracks,” that was submitted to the Nat Geo Your Shot competition and published by National Geographic Adventure, to High Sierra, Nepal Himalayas, Joshua Tree rock climbing and bouldering expeditions, with a mix of some digital and 35mm still film photography, along with lifestyle images created focused on fitness, health, beauty, wellness, travel and leisure, as well as the 30-minute documentary COVID-19 era film, STAIRWAY TO EVEREST, about an expedition to the Nepal Himalayas during the start of the global pandemic.
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Project: SPECTRUM: A Story of the Mind, Documentary, 30-Minutes, PBS
Role: Filmmaker, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor
Details: This project was a complete honor to be a part of and one that was helmed by my producing partner, Jill Jones, that featured Dr. Temple Grandin. The film was a first of its kind for the time it was produced and explored the world of autism through visual sensory perception, which made for some really neat and creative image making processes including hand painted stop motion animation, high speed macro and time lapse cinematography. The film went on to win the 59th CINE Golden Eagle Award for Best Documentary Short Film presented by the Council on International Nontheatrical Events, a part of the now defunct United States Information Agency, in Washington D.C., make a premiere at the United Nations Enable Film Festival in New York City, toured the International Film Festival Circuit, and aired on PBS stations nationwide.
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Project: NANUQ, Live Action Animation Short Film, 18-Minutes
Role: Filmmaker, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor, VFX Supervisor
Details: NANUQ was my 35mm student film thesis project from Columbia College Chicago. It was an ambitious film that brought together teams of people from Chicago, Los Angeles and Alaska! It told the story of a young girl with cancer in an Anchorage cancer ward who befriends her next-door friend, mentor and fellow cancer patient, Nanuq. When she undergoes surgery for her disease, she dreams about facing her worst fears in a stop motion animation dream sequence inspired by the native Eskimo myth, “Why The Stars Are In The Sky.” The completed film toured the international film festival circuit, including HollyShorts Film Festival, and was completed with funds from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences, grants from Columbia College Chicago, Kodak and Panavision NewFilmmaker Awards.
Project: Ada Blackjack Rising, Independent Documentary Short Film, 6-Minutes
Role: VFX 3D Matte Painting in Maya and Nuke
Details: This was an incredible short film in partnership with a fellow Columbia College Chicago alumni, Brice Habeger, and I had the pleasure of working as a VFX artist on a 3D matte painting using Maya, Photoshop and Nuke. The film screened at Smithsonian’s Mother Tongue Film Festival.
Project: Batman: Hush, Blu-ray Behind-the-Scenes Documentary, WARNER BROS.
Role: Producer, Videographer, Editor
Details: As a Batman and fan of the composer for this DC Universe Movie, Frederik Wiedmann, this was a really fun promotional project to be a part of. Freddie brought me along with him to Capital Records in Hollywood to film some behind-the-scenes footage of the soundtrack recording and edit it together with footage from the movie.
Project: Love Scene, Independent Short Film about Vivien Leigh,
Role: Director of Photography
Details: This was a beautiful short film with great production design, acting, directing, writing, sound, music and lighting that I had a privilege to be a part of as the cinematographer. We photographed this piece in the Saban Theater in Beverely Hills, and I worked with the film’s director Bethany Ashton Wolf on storyboarding, blocking and look development, coordinated and managed equipment and supplies vendors, led a camera crew of 2 RED Cinema Camera Packages, and the lighting and grip departments. The film went on to tour the international film festival circuit including Atlanta International Film Festival.
Project: The Dragon Prince Promotional Documentaries, NETFLIX
Role: Producer, Videographer, Editor
Details: Emmy-winning composer Frederik Wiedmann scored the Netflix show, THE DRAGON PRINCE, and brought me along to document some of his process and edit the official promotional videos in collaboration with the showrunners.
Project: Young Storytellers at the New York Film Academy, Sony and Universal Studios
Role: Workshop Instructor and Branded Non-Profit Documentary Short Filmmaker
Details: Young Storytellers is a Hollywood industry partnered non-profit organization that works with elementary, middle school, high school and college students discover the power of their own voice through writing, acting, directing and making their own films. It was an amazing partnership working with them through my friend and co-worker, Lara Manchester, and I had the opportunity to lead lighting, camera and cinematography workshops with the students at New York Film Academy Hollywood, documentary workshops and lectures, as well as produce a branded short documentary about the program that helped the organization’s fundraising event led by Jack Black, won a Telly Award for Best Non-Profit Branded Documentary, Best Documentary Short and Audience Choice Award at the MY HERO International Film Festival in Los Angeles.
Project: Occupation: Rainfall, Promotional Blu-Ray Documentaries, LIONSGATE
Role: Producer, Videographer, Editor
Details: Another awesome collaboration with composer Frederik Wiedmann on this epic sci-fi adventure!
Projects: t@gged, HULU, The Assent, UNIVERSAL, Pure, HULU, Doom: Annihilation, SYFY, ICON Trailer Music, UNIVERSAL RECORDS
Role: Behind-the-Scenes Producer, Videographer, Editor
Details: These are some other titles that I produced behind the scenes featurettes on with composer Frederik Wiedmann in the same style as Batman, Dragon Prince and Occupation: Rainfall above.
Projects: LA Film & Television Post-Production Reel
Role: Editor, VFX, Graphics and Animator
Details: This is a highlight reel of some of the cool projects I had the opportunity to work on while living in LA and the roles I served on them.
Project: Zumba Fitness World Party and Zumba Kids Video Games
Role: Production Compositing Supervisor, Post-Production Compositing Supervisor
Details: This was a really fun project and also one of my first large projects living in Los Angeles. I was hired by Duality Filmworks led by owners David and Daniel Holechek, to lead the green screen capture and integration process for the Zuma Fitness World Party XBOX One video game. My duties included working with the dancers and production crews at Universal Studios Hollywood’s virtual greenscreen stage supervising the principal photography video capture, coordinating camera angles, lighting, wardrobe and in some cases tanning booths for the performers so that they would all key out cleanly against the reflective green screen! In the post-production facilities just next door to the Universal Studios lot, I led a team of 8 keying and rotoscoping artists in the completion and delivery of millions of assets to the VFX graphics and compositing teams in New York City, and performed quality control and refinements on hair, color and skin tone rendering for the onscreen talent.
Project: Call of Duty Ghosts Multi-Player Reveal Event at LA Live, ACTIVISION
Role: Event Documentary Director of Photography and Strung-out Editor
Details: Led a 4-person camera crew capturing behind-the-scenes events coverage of the Call of Duty Ghosts Multi-Player competition between the U.S. Military and elite gaming professionals with RED Camera Packages, 30-foot crane and motion control time lapse photography. Edited and prepped footage for delivery to the finishing editor.
Project: 1iota Presents at the MTV Movie Awards at LA Live
Role: Event Documentary Director of Photography and Strung-out Editor
Details: In a similar style as the Call of Duty events at LA Live, I led a multi-camera documentary camera crew on the red carpet of the MTV Movie Awards for 1iota Presents with RED Digital Cinema cameras, where we interviewed everyone from Anthony Mackie to Grumpy Cat.
Project: Pit Bulls & Parolees, Documentary TV Series Seasons 3 and 4
Role: Show Open Director of Photography and Post-Production Compositing Supervision
Details: Led a specialized camera crew unit for two seasons of the show, driving across the country from Los Angeles to New Orleans and back to LA (over 7572 miles and 120 hours) with heavy, professional field camera equipment including 2 RED Digital Cinema Camera packages with Zeiss Prime Lenses and Canon Digital Photography packages for time lapse, 30-foot crane with supports and weights, lighting and electrical equipment, camera dolly and motion control units. Directed principal photography unit field operations of a 4-person crew under the supervision of the show runner, editors and producers, leading client relations and communication between above and below the line teams, overseeing proper equipment preparation, set up, company movements and wrapping, operated A-camera and focus while directing B and C camera units, natural and artificial lighting, blocking and staging of the show’s cast members and pit bulls, captured high-quality moving time lapse sequences around New Orleans and other post-production assets including b-roll and plate photography, and managed files, sequences and hard drive backups in the field. Worked on and supervised the project’s post-production finishings in Los Angeles by prepping clean and professional visual assets for compositing in Adobe After Effects, managing color correction and grading, and making editorial adjustments to successfully meet client’s notes and objectives.
Projects: The Pecos League, FOX SPORTS
Role: Documentary Cinematographer - Special Units: High Speed and Time Lapse
Details: This was an incredible documentary series for FOX Sports that took me to Trinidad, Colorado along the old Santa Fe Trail for a few weeks documenting the Pecos Baseball League, leading a team of camera operators specializing in high-speed cinematography on RED Digital Cameras with 30-foot cranes and motion control time lapse cinematography sequences. We drove equipment from Los Angeles to Colorado and back, managing hard drives as we went, sleeping in tents along the trail and returning to LA to pull selects and process deliverables.
Projects: Family Tree, HBO, Wahlburgers, A&E, From Here to There, OUTSIDE TV
Role: VFX Supervisor and Additional Videography
Details: My work on these two projects are interspersed throughout the episodes. For HBO’s FAMILY TREE, my role was as a post-production graphics supervisor overseeing the creation of still assets for compositing shots on the show, as well as treating and adding stylized film and color treatment effects to 35mm footage of Christopher Guest himself for the show, working with the show’s post-production company and managing client notes, hard drives, version upgrades and final deliverables. For WAHLBURGERS, I supplied the show with additional videography shots on RED cameras for inserts as the lead editors needed them, essentially providing them with customized stock footage. On FROM HERE TO THERE, I captured additional videography in LA as well as in Athens and Santorini, Greece for the Red Bull Art of Motion competition.
Project: Chicago Overcoat, SHOWTIME
Role: Behind-the-Scenes Videographer
Details: Chicago, gangsters, explosions, machine gun shoot outs, what more could you want? As a film school student at Columbia College Chicago, I was working days and nights after my classes on this film with some Columbia alumni doing behind-the-scenes documentary work. CHICAGO OVERCOAT went on to premiere at the Chicago International Film Festival and was distributed by SHOWTIME.
Project: WET, Super 16mm Independent Film, 5-Minutes
Role: Producer, Cinematographer
Details: WET was a beautiful independent film I had the pleasure of working on in film school with director Brad Bischoff. It was photographed on Super 16mm film, went on to screen at the Chicago International Film Festival, won the Chicago Award and was even reviewed by Roger Ebert!
Project: Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium Documentaries
Role: Documentary Videographer and Editor
Details: There were two main catalysts that sent me to work in Los Angeles film and television. The first was receiving a full tuition scholarship to Columbia College Chicago from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences News and Documentary Emmy Awards. The second, was a girl, whom I met at the Telluride Film Festival Student Symposium when we were in college. That girl would become my girlfriend and producing partner after moving to work in LA together and eventually my wife. Telluride was where it all began for us, and I am honored to have been a part of two documentaries produced for the festival about the symposium that featured Ken Burns while he was producing THE NATIONAL PARKS, Werner Herzog, David Fincher, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy.
