I'm a Bay Area documentary filmmaker with 20 years' experience, strong storytelling skills and a mastery of Adobe Creative Suite. I’ve taken a variety of projects from start to finish, including casting and producing trailers. Please find more information and my portfolios at _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ I won an Emmy in 2021 for my work as director/writer/on-camera host/editor/animator on KCET’s "Could Empowering Girls Transform the World?." MOTHERLOAD, my 2019 award-winning feature doc about bicycles, parenthood and activism in this digital age of climate change, is now streaming on AppleTV and Prime Video. I was Co-producer and Lead Editor on the Sundance Special Jury Prize-winning documentary feature, American Blackout, about the systematic disenfranchisement of African American voters. From 2000-2010, I edited a wide range of commercial formats - from 15-second spots to half-hour episodes and 90-minute concerts - for clients such as PG & E, Levi’s, The Northface, Current TV, MX Entertainment, Oxygen TV, Cytosport, Mekanism, Visa, and Kontent Films. From 2006-2010 I cut and created motion graphics on dozens of instructional and promotional pieces for Bare Minerals. Inc, including a documentary on the company’s unique origins and culture. My 1995 short film, "Handmirror/Brush Set Included" was broadcast on PBS and at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. The feature doc, "Girls Rock!", released in theaters nationwide , featured animated montages I created to demonstrate cultural forces affecting young girls. After graduating from Brown University’s Department of Modern Culture and Media in with a degree in Semiotics, I worked as Art Director, Wardrobe, and actor on three feature films directed by fellow Brown University alum and award-winning filmmaker Jon Moritsugu.

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I'm a Bay Area documentary filmmaker with 20 years' experience, strong storytelling skills and a mastery of Adobe Creative Suite. I’ve taken a variety of projects from start to finish, including casting and producing trailers. Please find more information and my portfolios at _Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup_ I won an Emmy in 2021 for my work as director/writer/on-camera host/editor/animator on KCET’s "Could Empowering Girls Transform the World?." MOTHERLOAD, my 2019 award-winning feature doc about bicycles, parenthood and activism in this digital age of climate change, is now streaming on AppleTV and Prime Video. I was Co-producer and Lead Editor on the Sundance Special Jury Prize-winning documentary feature, American Blackout, about the systematic disenfranchisement of African American voters. From 2000-2010, I edited a wide range of commercial formats - from 15-second spots to half-hour episodes and 90-minute concerts - for clients such as PG & E, Levi’s, The Northface, Current TV, MX Entertainment, Oxygen TV, Cytosport, Mekanism, Visa, and Kontent Films. From 2006-2010 I cut and created motion graphics on dozens of instructional and promotional pieces for Bare Minerals. Inc, including a documentary on the company’s unique origins and culture. My 1995 short film, "Handmirror/Brush Set Included" was broadcast on PBS and at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. The feature doc, "Girls Rock!", released in theaters nationwide , featured animated montages I created to demonstrate cultural forces affecting young girls. After graduating from Brown University’s Department of Modern Culture and Media in with a degree in Semiotics, I worked as Art Director, Wardrobe, and actor on three feature films directed by fellow Brown University alum and award-winning filmmaker Jon Moritsugu.

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I’m a Bay Area documentary filmmaker with 20 years’ experience, strong storytelling skills and a mastery of Adobe Creative Suite. I’ve taken a variety of projects from start to finish, including casting and producing trailers. Please find more information and my portfolios at Website not available. Sign in: https://www.twine.net/signup

I won an Emmy in 2021 for my work as director/writer/on-camera host/editor/animator on KCET’s “Could Empowering Girls Transform the World?.”

MOTHERLOAD, my 2019 award-winning feature doc about bicycles, parenthood and activism in this digital age of climate change, is now streaming on AppleTV and Prime Video.

I was Co-producer and Lead Editor on the Sundance Special Jury Prize-winning documentary feature, American Blackout, about the systematic disenfranchisement of African American voters.

From 2000-2010, I edited a wide range of commercial formats - from 15-second spots to half-hour episodes and 90-minute concerts - for clients such as PG & E, Levi’s, The Northface, Current TV, MX Entertainment, Oxygen TV, Cytosport, Mekanism, Visa, and Kontent Films. From 2006-2010 I cut and created motion graphics on dozens of instructional and promotional pieces for Bare Minerals. Inc, including a documentary on the company’s unique origins and culture.

My 1995 short film, “Handmirror/Brush Set Included” was broadcast on PBS and at the Museum of Modern Art in NYC. The feature doc, “Girls Rock!”, released in theaters nationwide , featured animated montages I created to demonstrate cultural forces affecting young girls.

After graduating from Brown University’s Department of Modern Culture and Media in with a degree in Semiotics, I worked as Art Director, Wardrobe, and actor on three feature films directed by fellow Brown University alum and award-winning filmmaker Jon Moritsugu.

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Freelance Gig
Expert
Adobe Premiere Pro
Expert
Promo Video
Expert
Product Video
Expert
Video Advert
Expert
Explainer Video
Expert
Corporate Video
Expert
Adobe Photoshop
Intermediate
Short Film
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Animation
Intermediate
Music Video
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Education

Bachelor of Arts at Brown University
September 28, 1986 - June 28, 1990
Film Semiotics

Qualifications

Adobe Premiere Pro
November 28, 2016 - November 28, 2023
expert video editor
Adobe Photoshop
September 28, 2005 - November 28, 2023
Adobe After Effects
November 22, 2017 - November 28, 2023

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Media & Entertainment, Computers & Electronics, Education, Non-Profit Organization
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