Film & Video Portfolio
A selection of narrative and documentary films, explainer videos, journalism, commercials, and branded content created since 2006.
We’re Building an Artificial Brain
Rain A.I. (explainer video, promotional)
Producer, Writer, Editor, Animation Designer, Interviewer. Created for leading artificial intelligence company Rain, this promo targeted at both industry experts and the general public explains the team’s mission to radically increase the energy efficiency of A.I. by redesigning computing systems to more closely resemble biological intelligence - neuromorphic computing. I interviewed CTO Jack Kendall and other members of Rain’s impressive team to craft a story that celebrated their recent proven success while contextualizing their achievements against the disastrously high stakes of continuing to build A.I. within our current paradigms.
The Biggest Project in Modern Mathematics
Quanta Magazine (explainer video, journalism)
Producer, Writer, Editor, Animation Designer, Storyboarding, Interviewer. The Langlands program is one of the most ambitious mathematical feats ever attempted. Its symmetries imply deep, powerful, and beautiful connections between the most important branches of math — a kind of “grand unified theory of mathematics.”
The Standard Model of Particle Physics: A Triumph of Science
Quanta Magazine (explainer video, journalism)
Producer, Writer, Editor, Animation Designer, Storyboarding, Interviewer. In this explainer, Cambridge University physicist David Tong recreates the Standard Model of particle physics — the most successful scientific theory of all time — piece by piece, to provide some intuition for how the fundamental building blocks of our universe fit together. The particle physics visualizations featured in this video were lauded by Walter Murch (editor, Particle Fever, Apocalypse Now).
Quantum Computers, Explained with Quantum Physics
Quanta Magazine (explainer video, journalism)
Producer, Writer, Editor, Animation Designer, Interviewer. Quantum computers aren’t the next generation of supercomputers—they’re something else entirely. Featuring Scott Aaronson, John Preskill, and Dorit Aharonov.
Why Scientists Can’t Predict the Spread of COVID
Quanta Magazine (explainer video, journalism)
Producer, Writer, Editor, Animation Designer, Interviewer. To understand what epidemiological models can tell us, it helps to first understand what they can’t. In this comprehensive explainer, we break down how epidemiological models are built and dispel some of the common misunderstandings about their applications.
The Riemann Hypothesis, Explained
Quanta Magazine (explainer video, journalism)
Animation Designer, Storyboarding. This educational video breaks down the “million dollar” math proof. I helped with the creative visualization of a highly complex aspect of the most notorious unsolved problem in all of mathematics.
San Francisco Art Exchange (promotional video)
Producer, Cinematographer, Editor. I created this commercial for one of San Francisco’s premiere art galleries, featuring originals of some of the most iconic pop culture images of all time.
Short film, drama (2011)
Writer-Director: Craig Gilbert
Ticklish Subjects
Producer, Cinematographer. Jack and Kathy have a daughter with cerebral palsy and an uncompromising love for each other. A short film about limitations. I helped develop this independent film and shot it on Super 16mm film.
Official Selection
2011 Warsaw International Film Festival (Short Grand Prix nominee)
2012 Palm Beach International Film Festival
2012 European Film Festival ‘Integration You and Me’
Speed Skate: The Price of Glory
Short film, sports documentary (2014)
Directors: Laura DeBruce, Laura Hambleton, and Sarah B. Patton
Hunt Avenue Productions, Stone Lantern Films
Editor. I helped shape this PBS documentary capturing the spectacle of the adrenaline-drenched world of this highly competitive sport, featuring the fastest young speed skaters in the U.S. as they train with their famous and controversial coach, Olympic gold medalist Dong Sung Kim. These young skaters — and their parents– devote an excess of time and money to their pursuit of making it to the Olympics. They believe Coach Kim could be their ticket there, until the relationship begins to sour.
Feature film, documentary (2011)
Directors: Adrian Vásquez de Velasco, Cidney Hue
Executive Producer: Mark London
Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor. Serving as my thesis at NYU Film School, and shot on location in the Amazon, I depicted the hard realities and daily struggles and hopes of the more than twenty million Brazilians who live in the rainforest, mostly in cities, attempting to find the path to a sustainable model of development while preserving Earth's last great forest and its unparalleled concentration of biodiversity.
Official Selection
2017 One Earth Film Festival
Special Screenings
Smithsonian Institution Wilson Center
2011 World Sustainability Forum - Manaus
Short film, comedy/drama (2015)
Director: Louis DeCaprio
NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Producer, Cinematographer, Assistant Director, Actor. Made during my final year at NYU, this award-winning student film tells the story of fourteen-year-old Dominic, an avid opera fan, who experiences the highs and lows of love - and marijuana.
Awards
2015 First Run Film Festival, Wasserman Award
Short film, drama/mystery (2016)
Directors: Christopher Jarvis, Alex Loeb
JarvisFilms, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Camera department co-lead (with Eric K. Yue and Zach Kuperstein). A naive young farmhand stumbles upon a terrible scene after suspecting her husband of an affair. Unable to comprehend what she has seen, the woman resolves to confront her husband and discover what happens in the stables at night. I helped shoot this student film starring Coleman Domingo, Stine Fischer Christensen, and Tom Guiry on Sony digital camera systems
Short film, comedy/drama (2012)
Director: Christopher Jarvis
JarvisFilms, NYU Tisch School of the Arts
Cinematographer, Creative Collaborator. Over a routine college visit, a spoiled freshman tries to end the relationship she has with her father. As she confronts him, she testifies to the details of their peculiar romance as she takes the audience through a disorienting collage of abuse and acrimony, all the while trying to convince us she has the upper hand. An experimental narrative student film created during my later years at NYU Film School which I shot on Super 16mm film.
National WWI Museum and Memorial (promotional video)
Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor. In my final year of high school, I competed and won a national video production competition in which two-person teams of high school students enrolled in media technology education programs were tasked with creating a promo for a major cultural institution from scratch within a few hours, including the entire end-to-end production and creative process.
Awards
2007 SkillsUSA National Championships, Best Audio Video Production
Short film, drama/Western
Writer-Director: Adrian Vásquez de Velasco
A&M Consolidated High School Media Technology Program (2006)
Director, Producer, Writer, Cinematographer, Editor, Actor. I made this short film in my final year of high school as my official portfolio submission for acceptance to NYU Film School. Inspired by the eponymous pastiche from the Beatles’ ‘White Album,’ it stars classmate Tom Vestal as a cursed cowboy trapped in a deadly love triangle, and features an original recording of the Lennon-McCartney track by local musicians Catfish Cain and ‘Big Earl’ Ronnie Young.