DIRECTION · CINEMATOGRAPHY · EDITING
The work
A decade of campaigns, six stories told in full, and one documentary still in progress.
CAMPAIGNS
Brand work, on location
Commercial films from Maui to Big Sur. Some documentary, some scripted, one on 16mm.
SELECTED WORK
Six stories, up close
Black Project SUP on Maui, the Ritz-Carlton Bacara, a school in Marin, a Costa Rican valley, a decade of expeditions, and a surf summit in Laguna Beach.
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.
Ritz-Carlton Bacara
HOSPITALITY
Four social films for the Santa Barbara resort, built as one story instead of four ads.
Green Communities
NONPROFIT · IMPACT
Ten years in one Costa Rican valley — and the year the documentary subject became a client.
Marin Montessori
INSTITUTION · FUNDRAISING
The films that open The Gather for Good, and move a room before the ask.
Wilderness Collective
A DECADE IN THE FIELD
Ten years of expeditions I helped run, filmed from inside the group.
MEDIA · LIVE EVENT
The Inertia · EVOLVE
Launch films, speaker intros and live coverage for The Inertia’s summit in Laguna Beach — one crew, before, during and after.
THE LONG PROJECT
Tarrazú
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.
SELECTED CREDITS
Fifteen years, three angles
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
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
Vitamin A — Maui & Oʻahu, for Nicole + Mikey Spencer
EDITING
Subaru
Dometic — off-road fishing expedition, Baja California
Reef
Inertia — feat. Sierra Kerr, event trailers
Can-Am — documentary short with Carlos Naude
Wilderness Collective — Alaska expedition