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Explore the journey at Columbia

Early in 2017, North Agency approached Vermilion Films to create a branded documentary for Columbia Sportswear, exploring how the outdoors inspires creativity in female artists. In this collaboration with She Explores, an online community for creative outdoors women, we traveled to the Olympic Peninsula for a week-long hike, where three artists immersed themselves in the incredible environment, wet weather and energy of each other. The film features podcaster and She Explores founder, Gale Straub, plein air watercolor painter, Heidi Annalise, and camp chef and Fresh Off the Grid blogger, Megan McDuffie. I co-directed and produced the film and content package with Irene Taylor Brodsky.

Roles: Co-Director, Producer

THE LIFE STORY

EXPERIENCE THE LIFE STORY

Intimate and raw, The Life Story explores the moments in a woman’s life that pulls them into, and out of, sex trafficking. The film series for NoVo Foundation, which sits on its own online platform, launched in January 2018.

Roles: Producer, Additional Editing

THE NATURE OF MAPS

Marty Schnure and Ross Donihue are modern day pioneers: roaming some of the world’s last remaining wild lands to create maps to help conserve these precious places. Through their project with conservationist Kris Tompkins and Conservacion Patagonica to map the new Patagonia Park in Chilean Patagonia, The Nature of Maps explores the integral role maps play in conservation, adventure and our understanding of wild places.

Official selection – 2017 Environmental Film Festival in the Nation’s Capital

Roles: Co-director cinematographer, editor

 

DAILY 360 – SYDNEY’S ORIGINAL INFINITY POOLS

Spend a little time in Sydney and you’ll soon realize its ocean pools are a landmark at locale. They have a long history in NSW as segregated baths but now open to the public for anyone to enjoy Sydney’s waterfront. I shot this 360 virtual reality experience for The New York Time’s newly launched Australian bureau.

Roles: 360 Cinematographer

 

DAILY 360 – SYDNEY’S WAKE UP SWIM

As part of the launch of the Australian bureau of The New York Times, I shot this 360 virtual reality experience of one of Sydney’s most beloved morning rituals – the daily Bold and the Beautiful swim between Manly and Shelly beaches. The swim started a decade ago when a few friends decided to make the mile-long coastal paddle and turned it into a daily event. Now, hundreds of locals start their day this way.

Role: 360 Cinematographer

VR: Night Sessions lit by Ledlenser

Partnering with Portland-based agency, The Program, this summer, I field produced, shot and edited a 360 virtual reality experience Ledlenser to showcase their new headlamp at the 2016 summer Outdoor Retailer trade show. This project required us to shoot entirely in transitional light within a very short time frame, which pushed our crew logistically. It was great to problem solve and strategize how to best show off this incredibly powerful headlamp in creative ways – we had a perfect location in Hood River’s Post Canyon and really awesome riders who were willing to push the boundaries to get the shot. We worked with a new rig – the Radiant Images Dark Corner rig, which handled the low-light and showed off the product really well. It was also great to work with a commercial client on a VR experience and see the possibilities for how this new technology can be utilized commercially.

NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC – GOING DEEP

This film is one of three produced for a Chaco branded content campaign living on the National Geographic Adventure platform, exploring the lesser traveled island of Long Island, Bahamas, through the eyes of its locals. This film is told through the eyes of world record holding freediver, William Trubridge, who lives, trains and competes on the island.

Roles: Producer, Editor

THE GREAT HUMAN RACE

The Great Human Race is a series produced by National Geographic Studios, which follows the path of human evolution from our origins 2.5 millions years ago in the horn of Africa all the way to the beginning of the first civilizations in the American Pacific Northwest. The series premiered in February 2016 and will air internationally on the National Geographic Channel.

I was associate field producer and photographer on episodes shot on location in Tanzania, Ethiopia, Turkey, Mongolia and the US.

Moving at a New Pace

Moving at a New Pace follows Andrew Locke, a Middlebury alumnus undertaking behavioral economics research with impoverished labor forces in Chennai, India. He spends his days with flower stringers, rickshaw pullers, fishermen and rag pickers learning how their chronic pain impedes their ability to earn a living. Locke is an alumnus who’s fascination with the world was born at Middlebury.

This short film is part of a project between Seedlight Pictures and Middlebury College to celebrate their decade-long fundraising campaign that supported a multitude of programs and student endeavors. The culmination of this was a 15-minute short film telling the story of the last decade through the eyes of exceptional alumni making tangible change around the world. We roamed from Vermont to DC, New York, Patagonia, Chile, and Chennai, India, following cartographers, entrepreneurs, researchers and human rights activists in their work.

Roles: Field Director, Producer, Cinematographer.

H-TOWN STORIES

Check out the series at MediaStorm

In February of 2014 I worked with MediaStorm and Neighborhood Centers Inc. in Houston to produce two short films highlighting the integral role work plays in the lives of individuals.

Role: Field Producer