Born and raised in Madison, Wisconsin, I currently reside in Chicago as I attend DePaul University to study for a BFA in Film and Television Production (Directing Concentration). All works in this portfolio have been directed and edited by me; most material was written and filmed by me, unless specified otherwise.
Filmmaking, but really anything that allows me to tell a story through images. I love how composition can portray a character's relationship to their space, to nature, to other characters, all through framing, blocking, lighting, and set design. I love how a cut can tell a thousand stories that two images alone might not. I love the tools of filmmaking, and I want to use them as much as I can in my professional life.
As long as I can remember, when I'd write hundred-page novels in elementary school, but I started working with filmmaking in the summer of 2023, after I got my first iPhone with a good enough camera and decided I had no excuse not to start making things. Since then, I've made lots of narrative shorts, also lots of video work centered around educational settings, from producting my high school's weekly video news broadcast to interning in Communications for my former school district.Â
My first shot ever taken on my new iPhone.