I am a filmmaker and theater director from Albany, New York. I live in Austin, Texas, now.

 

I won Best SHOUT LGBTQ+ film at Sidewalk Film Festival for my film "Tomorrow" and Best Narrative Short at Fencesitter Film Festival with "Stardust." I've also been a finalist for the Pandora Short Film Grant and the NewFest New Voices Filmmaker Grant. My films have played at IFC Center, Palm Springs ShortFest, Atlanta, Miami, Flickers Rhode Island, Frameline, and many more. You can watch many of them on my website or on streaming sites like Directors Notes, Nobidge, and Beyond the Short.

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My early work explored our relationship to the internet and how low-brow technology like iPhones and even internet browsers, stock footage, and apps could become vehicles for filmmaking rather than a cinema camera. But I moved away from that during the pandemic and as AI developed in the early 2020s.

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My recent work explores charged, tense, and confusing male relationships; men who meet under unusual circumstances and have a chance encounter that brings inner conflict to the surface and instigates shifting power dynamics. 

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But I'm always interested in how social constructs influence people's behavior; how human beings perform and create artificial things.   

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After years spent thinking about my childhood and the way my sexuality formed through a complicated relationship with heteronormativity, I have developed a once-buried but now passionate, deep, and lifelong love for all types of men that I try to transmit through my films by making my characters sensitive, vulnerable beings. I try to capture the beauty that a lot of men do not see in themselves but I grew up studying, admiring, falling in love with. My films are fueled by compassion rather than criticism and a desire to not only portray how men are but how I would like them to be.​

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I am a programmer at Sun Pass Film Festival in Miami and the founder of Midnight Movie Theater, a space dedicated to trash, underground, misunderstood, and rarely-screened films, and I teach film production at The University of Texas at Austin and Austin Community College.  

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SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:

• Too Late (Completed)

• Tomorrow (2026)

• Not Today (2025)

• Stardust (2025)

• Jimmy (2024)

• Death (2023)
• GANGBANG (2023)
• The Expanding Horizon (2022)

• Violence (2019)

• Trump Blows Trump (2019)
• Boys of My Youth (2018)

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