Current Employment (June 2010 – present)
Production Manager, Teacher U
- Teacher U is an innovative graduate program of education.
- It relies on direct instructional video as the framework for the online portion of its curriculum.
Documentary Features
Editor, Co-Producer, Delta Boys (in progress)
- An intimate look at the Niger Delta militancy and the daily lives of the young men involved.
- Funded by Sundance, Gucci/Tribeca, and CineReach.
Editor, The Return of the War Room (2008)
- Pennebaker and Hegedus return to the tales and characters of their 1992 classic, The War Room.
- Commissioned by the Sundance Channel to air before the 2008 US presidential elections.
Editor, Four Seasons Lodge (2008)
- A group of Holocaust survivors summer at a Catskills resort for one last season.
- Aired on WNET, 2010. Selected for Silverdocs 2008, Audience Award Miami Jewish Film Festival 2009.
Editor, When Adnan Comes Home (2006)
- Badly burned in a prison fire, an Iraqi teenager fights his way through the corrupt court system.
- Selected for IFP 2006, IDFA 2006, SxSW 2007. Best Documentary Vail Film Festival 2007.
Editor, Blood of My Brother (2005)
- An Iraqi family mourns the loss of a child and struggles to rebuild amidst ongoing violence and war.
- Selected for IDFA 2005, Tribeca 2006. In theaters 2006. On DVD at Blockbuster, Netflix, and Amazon.
Director, Producer, Camera, Editor, The Same Moon (2004)
- An aid group travels to Ethiopia and struggles with the realities of philanthropy in developing countries.
Intern, Maysles Films (2003)
News
Producer, Editor, Camera Four Corners Media for the Financial Times (2007 – 2010)
Freelance Journalist, Associated Press, Rwanda (2008)
Production Assistant, NOW With Bill Moyers, PBS (2004)
Oral History
Country Director, Voices of Rwanda (2008 – 2009)
- Filmed Rwandan genocide survivors’ testimonies and oral histories.
- Edited educational materials using excerpts of VOR testimonies.
Documentary Shorts
Director, Producer, Camera, Editor, If I Can Survive (2008)
Director, Producer, Camera, Editor, The Gospel of Propane (2007)
Director, Producer, Editor, Four Months Later (2006)
Fiction
Editor, June Weddings (2005)
Awards and Press
Audience Award, Four Seasons Lodge, Miami Jewish Film Festival (2009)
“Detained in Nigeria, A Lifeline in New York,” New York Times (14 September 2008)
Director’s Special Recognition Award, June Weddings, SFShorts (2007)
Best Documentary, When Adnan Comes Home, Vail Film Festival (2007)
Jury Prize, Blood of My Brother, Milan Film Festival (2006)
Howard Lamar Prize for Film and Video, The Same Moon, Yale Film Studies Department (2004)
Education
Yale University, Bachelor of Arts, cum laude, Film Studies with distinction (2004)