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Resilience: Voice of Basket Weaving in the Great Basin

This documentary explores the vital art of Native American basketry – its history, current practice, and future – through the perspectives of contemporary weavers, museum curators, and Indigenous artists.

Role: Director/producer

Featured:

  • Nevada Museum of Art - Of the Earth: Native American Baskets and Pueblo Pottery Exhibit, Reno, Nevada

  • Part of their permanent collection. Showing in their permanent basket gallery.

  • Nevada State Museum Waší∙šiw Guwá: The Work of the Washoe People, Carson City, Nevada

  • Cordillera International Film Festival, Reno, Nevada

  • DAM Short Film Festival, Boulder City, Nevada

  • NatureTrack Film Festival, Santa Barbara, California

  • Pyramid Lake Paiute Museum, Nixon, Nevada

  • Reno Tahoe International Art Show, Reno, Nevada

  • Great Basin Anthropological Conference, Reno, Nevada

  • 25th Annual NATHPO Conference, Reno, Nevada

  • Swedish National Museums of World Culture

DESO SUPPLY SUMMER ‘25 FREEDOM TO MOVE COLLECTION

Visual lookbook for lifestyle clothing brand

Role: Creative director, producer

Elko Mural Expo 2019

From September 26-29, 2019, artists from Reno and across the globe gathered in Elko, Nevada to enliven over 40 walls with murals and street art. Homage to the 2010 documentary, Amerikanuak.

Role: Solo project

*Viewers’ Choice, 2019 Nevada Museum of Art 3-Minute Film Festival

WHERE THE FROGS WILL GO

Documentary about Bev’s Miner’s Club and the “Friendly Old Geezers” of Gerlach, Nevada. These FROGS get together to escape the reality that their rural town is dying, withering away beside the Black Rock Desert. But Bev sold the bar. Without the Miner’s Club, where will the FROGS go?

Role: Director

*Screened at Jukebox International Film Festival 2017

WOLF PACK WHAT | VR (360 video)

Experimental 360 video interview with New York Times Executive Editor, Dean Baquet about the future of journalism.

Role: Director, Producer, Editor

WALKING WITH REALTY

Documentary about Evan Gadda - a student at the University of Nevada, Reno studying Musical Theatre. His experience with virtual reality was profound and unexpected

Role: Story development, editing

Featured:

  • Impact Doc Awards | Winner, award of merit special mention

  • San Francisco Doc Fest

  • ACE Awards | Best in Film

  • Social Media Impact Awards

  • Cinema at the Edge Film Festival

MOTION GRAPHICS

Visual Storytelling and the Communication of Science: Q&A with Luka Starmer

Visual Storytelling and the Communication of Science: Q&A with Luka Starmer

Explore the intersection of visual media, immersive technology, and science communication in this Q&A featured on the Hitchcock Project for Visual Storytelling.

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NEVADA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION | Explainer on nursing shortage in Nevada

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NEVADA HOSPITAL ASSOCIATION | Explainer on physician employment