DIRECTION · CINEMATOGRAPHY · EDITING
THE WORK.
Resorts, expeditions, classrooms, coffee farms and open ocean — five worth explaining in full, a decade of campaigns, and one documentary still in progress.
Every one of these started the same way: someone had something true about their organization that wasn't reaching anybody.
SELECTED WORK
FIVE STORIES, FIVE KINDS OF ROOM.
Black Project SUP on Maui, the Ritz-Carlton Bacara, a school in Marin, a Costa Rican valley, and a decade of expeditions.
IMAGE - ATHLETE ON THE WATER, RED STILL
RITZ-CARLTON BACARA
HOSPITALITY
Four social films for the Santa Barbara resort, built as one story instead of four ads.
IMAGE - A FACE MID-MOMENT
IMAGE - THE ROOM, MID-ASK
MARIN MONTESSORI
INSTITUTION · FUNDRAISING
The films that open The Gather for Good, and move a room before the ask.
ACTIVE PARTNERSHIP
LOCAL BUSINESS · MAUI
BLACK PROJECT SUP
Six months in with a Maui water sports company — product campaigns, an original series, and a content engine that keeps running between launches.
GREEN COMMUNITIES
NONPROFIT · IMPACT
Ten years in one Costa Rican valley — and the year the documentary subject became a client.
IMAGE - A FARMER, CLOSE
IMAGE - RIDERS, DUST, THIRD DAY
WILDERNESS COLLECTIVE
A DECADE IN THE FIELD
Ten years of expeditions I helped run, filmed from inside the group
CAMPAIGNS
BRAND WORK, ON LOCATION.
Commercial films made from Maui to Baja, Big Sur to a coffee valley in Costa Rica — some documentary, some scripted, one shot entirely on 16mm.
VITAMIN A — MAUI
A seasonal campaign shot entirely on Maui, including private access locations.
DIRECTOR · DP
SEA-DOO — CATALINA CROSSING
A documentary short following two friends across the sixty-mile channel from Long Beach to Catalina.
DIRECTOR · EDITOR
MAAP — THE TILFORD FOUNDATION
A two-film campaign for the foundation carrying the first US national mountain bike champion's legacy.
DIRECTOR · EDITOR
IMPERFECTS — 16MM, OCEANSIDE
Full creative control on a kit release. Shot on 16mm, set to an Alan Watt lecture.
DIRECTOR · DP
STETSON — BIG SUR
A product release for the crushable hat line, shot as a road trip down the coast.
DIRECTOR · DP
META — QUEST LAUNCH, LOS ANGELES
An experiential launch where influencers put the headset on for the first time.
DIRECTOR · DP
THE LONG PROJECT
TARRAZÙ
A feature documentary about coffee farmers in Los Santos, Costa Rica, leaving the co-ops to build their own micro-mills — ten years in and still shooting. One of its subjects, Jonathan, later hired us to tell the story of his foundation.
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SELECTED CREDITS
FIFTEEN YEARS, THREE CHAIRS.
Not every job is one I directed. Plenty of work I'm proudest of is work I shot for someone else, or cut from someone else's footage. Collaboration with businesses and other creatives always makes a stronger end result.
DIRECTION
Ritz-Carlton Bacara
Marin Montessori — The Gather for Good
Green Communities
Wilderness Collective — expedition films
Sea-Doo — Catalina, Florida
MAAP — The Tilford Foundation
Vitamin A
Imperfects
Stetson
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Cannonball Ride — full-length documentary streaming on Amazon Prime
Visit California — three-part docu-series
Air + Style, Los Angeles — man-on-the-street comedy
EDITING
Subaru
Dometic — an off-road, fishing, expedition in Baja California
Reef
Intertia — feat. Sierra Kerr, event trailers
Canam — documentary short with Carlos Naude
Wilderness Collective — Alaska expedition