Wilderness, line producer
A documentary short produced by CPB/PBS Producer's Workshop at WGBH in Boston for the "American Graduate Initiative." The series features stories that focus on challenges facing high school students across the United States. Wilderness follows Ryan, a teen flunking out of school and facing time in detention. Instead, he was given another chance and came to a wilderness program in the harsh mountains of Utah, where he learned to respect his horse, his schooling and himself.
A documentary short produced by CPB/PBS Producer's Workshop at WGBH in Boston for the "American Graduate Initiative." The series features stories that focus on challenges facing high school students across the United States. Wilderness follows Ryan, a teen flunking out of school and facing time in detention. Instead, he was given another chance and came to a wilderness program in the harsh mountains of Utah, where he learned to respect his horse, his schooling and himself.
IN FOOTBALL WE TRUST, producer's assistant
In Football We Trust is the yet untold story of the Polynesian football pipeline, from the Islands to Utah via the Mormon Church to the NFL. With unprecedented access, this feature length documentary intimately explores the lives of three young Utah football players and their families within a tightly-knit Polynesian community, capturing the high stakes world of recruiting, nature of competitive athletics, complexities of cultural identity and pressures of family responsibility, These young players negotiate their destiny that society has dictated for them, portraying an American immigrant story of raw passion for football, dedication to preserving one's culture and the enduring quest for a prosperous future.
In Football We Trust is the yet untold story of the Polynesian football pipeline, from the Islands to Utah via the Mormon Church to the NFL. With unprecedented access, this feature length documentary intimately explores the lives of three young Utah football players and their families within a tightly-knit Polynesian community, capturing the high stakes world of recruiting, nature of competitive athletics, complexities of cultural identity and pressures of family responsibility, These young players negotiate their destiny that society has dictated for them, portraying an American immigrant story of raw passion for football, dedication to preserving one's culture and the enduring quest for a prosperous future.
Three Judges, producer's assistant
In 2009, three Palestinian women, changed history by becoming the Middle East's first female judges to be appointed in the religious courts. With unprecedented access, Three Judges chronicles their journeys through the West Bank's Shari'a law courts and the profound ripple affect their appointments made throughout the Islamic world.
In 2009, three Palestinian women, changed history by becoming the Middle East's first female judges to be appointed in the religious courts. With unprecedented access, Three Judges chronicles their journeys through the West Bank's Shari'a law courts and the profound ripple affect their appointments made throughout the Islamic world.
Who is Dayani Cristal?, Sundance film festival assistant
A film by Marc Silver & Gael García Bernal tells the story of an anonymous migrant who found himself in the deadly stretch of the Arizona desert known as "the corridor of death" and shows how one life becomes testimony to the tragic results of the U.S. war on immigration.
A film by Marc Silver & Gael García Bernal tells the story of an anonymous migrant who found himself in the deadly stretch of the Arizona desert known as "the corridor of death" and shows how one life becomes testimony to the tragic results of the U.S. war on immigration.
After Tiller, Sundance film festival assistant
After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, there are a limited number of doctors left in the country who provide third-trimester abortions for women. After Tiller moves between the rapidly unfolding stories of these doctors, all of whom were close colleagues of Dr. Tiller, and are fighting to keep this service available in the wake of his death. These four people have become the new number-one targets of the pro-life movement, yet continue to risk their lives every day to do work that many believe is murder, but which they believe is profoundly important for their patients' lives.
After the assassination of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, there are a limited number of doctors left in the country who provide third-trimester abortions for women. After Tiller moves between the rapidly unfolding stories of these doctors, all of whom were close colleagues of Dr. Tiller, and are fighting to keep this service available in the wake of his death. These four people have become the new number-one targets of the pro-life movement, yet continue to risk their lives every day to do work that many believe is murder, but which they believe is profoundly important for their patients' lives.
Boys of Bonneville: Racing on a Ribbon of Salt, social media manager
The story about an America that has all but disappeared, when lucrative business deals were cemented by a handshake and state of the art automobiles were designed on the backs of envelopes. It tells the story of an unsung hero and self-made man, David Abbott Jenkins, who, with almost superhuman stamina and boyish charm, set out to single-handedly break every existing land speed record on his beloved Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah. More than a century later, many of Ab's records remain unbroken and the legacy lives on in his custom car.
The story about an America that has all but disappeared, when lucrative business deals were cemented by a handshake and state of the art automobiles were designed on the backs of envelopes. It tells the story of an unsung hero and self-made man, David Abbott Jenkins, who, with almost superhuman stamina and boyish charm, set out to single-handedly break every existing land speed record on his beloved Bonneville Salt Flats of Utah. More than a century later, many of Ab's records remain unbroken and the legacy lives on in his custom car.
