CREDIT HIGHLIGHTS

Music Composition (2020-2021)

After many years away from music composition, I came back to my first love during the COVID lockdown. I’m currently loading cinematic instrumental music onto SoundCloud, and actively working on an album for release later this year.

A top priority for the album will to make the process for you to license it for your films, television, and other media as simple and straightforward as possible. Stay tuned for more details, and check out Ad Astra Per Aspera and other demos in-progress below as they develop!

Making waves: the art of cinematic sound (2019)

Editor/Sound Mixer

Documentary on the history, art, and power of film sound. Premiered in 2019 at the Cannes Film Festival and the Tribeca Film Festival. Nominated for Best Edited Documentary Feature by the American Cinema Editors (ACE), and won the Cinema Audio Society (CAS) award for Outstanding Achievement in Sound Mixing.

I was involved in the film from conception to completion. I helped with fund-raising, story writing, production sound mixing on set, editing, partaking in the color correction and final sound mix at Skywalker Sound, and working in close creative partnership with director Midge Costin for 6 years throughout principle photography, editorial, and final finishing. It was an epic journey, and I learned so much that I can bring to your projects as well.

- Directed by Midge Costin - Edited by David J. Turner - Supervising Editor Thomas G. Miller - Consulting Editor Kate Amend -

FRUITVALE STATION (2013)

SOUND EDITOR/FOLEY MIXER

Tells the true story of Oscar Grant's life and tragic death on the last day of 2008. Directed by Ryan Coogler, and winner of the Audience Award and Grand Jury Prize at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival.

I recorded and edited Foley and sound effects throughout the film, with a particular concentration on the climactic standoff at Fruitvale Station - laying in police key jangling throughout the scene to unconsciously evoke an impending fear of imprisonment.

Watch the trailer here. Available on iTunes, Amazon, and Vudu.

USC SCHOOL OF CINEMATIC ARTS (2012-2014)

ADJUNCT PROFESSOR

For four semesters, I taught advanced sound re-recording mixing to students in 546 & 480 who have gone on to do notable work on films like A Quiet Place, Bumblebee, Frozen II, and Moonlight (2017 Academy Award winner for Best Picture).

I also taught Peter Stark Producing students how to sound edit in 541, led first semester USC students through an introduction to film sound in 295, and taught picture editing and color timing to college students from across the country at the Los Angeles Film Studies Center.

Frankie’s Dream (2011)

Director/Editor/Cinematographer/Composer

Documentary film about a Chinese American family's love that overcomes the obstacles of autism.

I directed the film for interactingwithautism.com in collaboration with Chinese filmmaker Tingting Yao, and under the mentorship of Oscar-winning director Mark Jonathan Harris.

Winner of the Best Documentary award at China's FIRST International Film Festival.

Watch the film here.

Master of fine arts - FILM PRODUCTION (2008-2011)

director/editor/sound designer/composer

I studied film production at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, with a focus in Editing, Sound Design, and Documentary Directing. For three years, I directed and crewed on many projects, while serving as a TA for Midge Costin, Doug Vaughan, Tom Holman, and Bruce Botnick.

In my final year, I mentored under sound designer Gary Rydstrom after winning the Outstanding Sound Faculty Award at USC First Look in 2011 for the film Efrain.

INTERNATIONAL VIDEOGRAPHER (2004-2008)

Director/Editor/Cinematographer/Composer

I directed documentaries in 20 countries across 5 continents, fund-raising for relief efforts in the wake of natural disasters and armed conflicts.

This helped raise over $3 million, and garnered 23 Telly Awards for pieces I did on the Sudanese civil war, the 2004 Tsunami in Southeast Asia, Hurricane Katrina crisis response, and an educational fund in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

In 2007, I directed a film called Resurrected Hope, which won more Tellys than any other film in competition that year.