Hoboken, NJ, USA
$400 - $500 / Day
I’m an OJA award nominated filmmaker and multimedia journalist, based in Manhattan. After changing careers from immunology to journalism and filmmaking I have completed a virtual reality film for PBS Frontline, individually created a short documentary set in Ukraine, and animated and edited for the likes of Vice News Tonight. I believe that blurring the edges of your profession in this new world of journalism and filmmaking is the true future of generating and consuming thoughtful and interesting content. This is why I strive to achieve perfection in many innovative and emergent fields of journalism. I also endeavor to perform as a complete package; being proficient in everything from producing and shooting to editing, animation and design is something I take very seriously. I believe that doing so many different things that you no longer know what to call yourself is a good thing. I value creativity, beauty, simplicity, accuracy, care, and authenticity and I wish to educate and engage us to issues that otherwise would not have been considered in an artfully simplistic way. I primarily consider myself a cinematographer and producer, but can also serve as a video editor, animator, researcher, sound engineer, and composer.
Three years after the Ukrainian Maidan revolution, Ukraine’s sovereignty still remains under threat from Russia. But the energy of the Maidan has since channeled itself into Kiev’s cultural underground. Through a powerful rave and contemporary art scene, the youth of Kiev are taking things into their own hands in face of their own government's corruption and ineptitude.
This is a reel that shows the various projects I have worked on. All footage has been shot by me.
Filmed on 360-degree cameras from inside the exclusion zone, this documentary is an on-the-ground look at the remnants of Pripyat, what’s left of the Chernobyl station, and the effort to seal the reactor behind the meltdown with a radiation confinement shelter.
Our Brother Jordan is a film that explores the fallout a family endures following one of its members committing suicide. On a broader scale it touches upon the social stigma towards discussing suicide in America and serves to educate and console other families that might be going through a similar situation.
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