A BIT ABOUT ME

I grew up in Illinois. Shortly after graduating from the University of Illinois in Champaign, I moved to New York City where I worked for magazines, including New York Magazine and Popular Science as a video producer for PopSci. I moved to Chicago, studied documentary under Academy Award-nominated director Bill Siegel (The Trials of Muhammad Ali), and completed work on a short film titled Wild Solitude about the remote Deep Springs college in Eastern California. I also started and ran an indie film festival called Backyard Film & Music Fest from 2008-11.

I then moved to California and gained film editing experience on All Eyes and Ears, directed by Vanessa Hope and produced by Ted Hope, a documentary about US-China relations. It followed the ambassador to China during the Obama administration, Jon Huntsman, and premiered at Tribeca in 2015.

That same year, I moved to Los Angeles and soon edited on other documentaries, including Bunker77, directed by Takuji Masuda, about surfing legend Bunker Spreckels; Hal, directed by Amy Scott, about film director Hal Ashby, which premiered at Sundance in 2018; and Rulon, directed by Adam Irving, about the Olympic gold medalist in heavy-weight wrestling Rulon Gardner for the Olympic Channel/NBC. It was produced by Five Rings Films and is available to stream now on the Olympic Channel. In 2019, I edited a narrative film titled Faith, directed by Eli Daughdrill, which premiered at Indie Memphis Film Festival.

In 2022, I edited on two documentaries—Common Ground, about the potential for regenerative agriculture to help the environment, and Thriller 40, which is about the recording of Michael Jackson’s album Thriller and made 40 years after its release. That documentary is available to stream now on Showtime/Paramount+. Also in 2022, I edited a narrative film called Frybread Face and Me, a semi-autobiographical story by the director Billy Luther, about growing up Diné (Navajo) in San Diego, executive produced by Taika Waititi and featuring an all-Native American cast. It premiered at SXSW in March 2023 and had its international premiere at TIFF 2023. Frybread Face and Me is streaming now on Netflix.

Towards the end of 2023, I finished a documentary learning what my dad (who studied interactions between people) did for work, called The Interaction Cowboy. It aired on PBS stations across the US during the summer of 2024 and is available to stream on the PBS app now.

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