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ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR
Film and Media, Department of Communication, ��ɬֱ�� - 2023-present

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR
Film and Media, Department of Communication, ��ɬֱ�� - 2015-2023

SCREENWRITER/DIRECTOR

Writer/Director: , a psychological thriller (2024) with Inbar Lavi, Jack Kesy, and Usman Ally.

Writer: , Honorable mention at 2021 University Film and Video Association screenplay awards. Developed as graphic novel which was Editor’s Pick of BookLife by Publisher’s Weekly in 2020. Earlier screenplay draft was winner of UCLA School of Theater, Film and Television’s 2014 Oliver’s Prize, and screenplay semifinalist in the 2013 Page Awards.

Writer: Mistbound, story for an adventure game platform and original IP developed by W! Games (2007).

Writer: , a dramatic web series featured in WSJ “New Media Trends” (12/16/06).

Writer: with David Arquette, Tim Blake Nelson, and Emily Mortimer. The film premiered at the Sundance Film Festival (2003), was distributed worldwide, and got “Two Thumbs Up!” from Ebert and Roeper.

PRODUCER

Producer: (2026) a short film directed by Christine Swanson (Albany Road) and written by Calvin Prison Initiative student Kyale Williams. Featured as Spotlight Screening at 30th American Black Film Festival.

Producer: (2024), a feature-length narrative film (85 mins) starring Inbar Lavi (Lucifer, Imposters, Fauda), Jack Kesy (Claws, Deadpool 2), and Usman Ally (God’s Favorite Idiot, A Series of Unfortunate Events).

Producer, Co-Director: , documentary about 21st century slave trade in war-torn Sudan. Co-production of EO TV, Netherlands and NDR, Germany, 2000. Shown in over a dozen countries. U.S. Premiere at Amnesty International Film Festival, 2002.

Producer: , documentary about women convict firefighters augmenting California’s wildfire-fighting forces, EO TV, Netherlands, 2000.

Producer: Mercy Ships, a reality-style documentary series aboard hospital ship Anastasis in Gambia, Africa, EO TV, Netherlands, 2000.

Producer: The Crash: Flight 1420, a documentary about Ouachita Baptist University-victims of American Airlines Flight 1420, EO TV, Netherlands, 2000.

CAMERAMAN AND EDITOR

• The Manifestation, feature film co-editor, 2024
• The Wild Adventure, MT (all camera except drone footage), 2018
• Calvin Theatre Company, commercial campaign nominated for 2018 Emmy, 2017
• Community Bible Study, various promos (camera only), 2012-2015
• CAbi Fashion, New Collection (editing only), 2014
• Vera Bradley Fashion, New Collection Promo (editing only), 2014
• Joni Eareckson-Tada, TV-series , 2009-2014
• Procter & Gamble, Oxnard facility video (camera only), 2013
• Reuters TV, LA Entertainment News Items, 2007-2010
• Associated Press, (camera only) 2009