Film and Video
Cisco U. - Learn everyday
This is a commercial to promote Cisco Systems’ new digital e-learning platform called Cisco U. For this commercial, I wrote the script, made the music, shot all footage, and edited the video. I also implemented screen tracking on all screens seen in this video, which allowed me to insert any screen recordings that Cisco wanted.
Let me Go by Dinosoul
Position: Director of Photography
Cyber Monday 2023 Promotional Video
The Cisco Learning Network Store is a department of Cisco that focuses on selling training to help users learn the technological concepts they need to get Cisco certified. I created a video to promote their Cyber Monday sale. For this video, I recorded and edited the voice over content, animated the graphics and text, recorded the user interfaces shown, and created the music.
Sticks and Stone Promo
I made a video to promote a local mobile wood-fired pizza business called Sticks and Stone to show off their process and their delicious gourmet pizza.
Contact High: A Visual History of Hip-Hop
I had the great opportunity to work with a writer name Vikki Tobak, who wrote a book about the evolution of hip-hop and the untold stories of the photographers behind the cameras. I collaborated with Vikki to make a series of videos to promote this book, and this is a 30 second version.
Hawaii
Shots from a recent weeklong adventure on the Big Island.
DNA Cisco Commercial
This is a commercial for Cisco Systems that I wrote, produced, and edited. It promotes the e-learning course software that helps you prepare for your Cisco certification exams, wherever and whenever you want.
This is a video I wrote, directed, and edited that promotes a Cybersecurity e-learning course. Link: http://cs.co/605587lC3.
Making a Difference Cisco Commercial
This is a video I wrote, directed, and edited that promotes a Cybersecurity e-learning course.
In lorton's Darkroom
(Documentary Short) The story of inmates in DC's infamous Lorton Correctional Facility who transform their prison experience while participating in a photography program.
AWARDS:
Injustice for All Film Festival (Best Short Doc 2016)
Merit Award of Excellence from Best Shorts Competition (2016)
Contact High: Visualizing Malcolm X with Photographer Eve Arnold
In 1960, LIFE magazine assigned photographer Eve Arnold to document Malcolm X. She spent more than a year following Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam movement around the United States from Washington to New York to Chicago. She produced some of the most well known images of the man who has had an undeniable impact on hip hop, his legacy interwoven into the fabric of urban culture and the hip hop generation.
CONTACT HIGH: PHOTOGRAPHER JAMEL SHABAZZ ON SHOOTING NYC, CIRCA 1981
Photographer Jamel Shabazz to take us through one of his rarely seen color contact sheets in celebration of street portraiture and the very essence of the everyday people….
Contact High: Visualizing Nicki Minaj with Photographer Angela Boatwright
Article on Mass Appeal: https://massappeal.com/contact-high-photographer-angela-boatwright-on-nicki-minajs-first-feature-shoot/
This video shares an interview with photographer Angela Boatwright, who recalls the story of her 2008 shoot of Nicki Minaj in a diner in Queens.
Contact High: Visualizing Bad Brains With Photographer Lucian Perkins
Article on Mass Appeal: https://massappeal.com/contact-high-photographer-lucian-perkins-on-shooting-bad-brains-valley-green-show/
Photographer Lucian Perkins shares his story of interning at the Washington Post during the summer of '79, and remembers photographing the Bad Brains in a few small and intimate concerts around Washington, DC.
Contact High: Visualizing the Black Panthers with Photographer Stephen Shames
Article on Mass Appeal: http://massappeal.com/contact-high-photographer-stephen-shames-talks-panthers-on-parade/
In July of 1968, Photographer Stephen Shames documented the Black Panthers at a Free Huey rally in DeFremery Park in west Oakland. The iconic photos Shames captured here formed the image of the Black Panthers.
Contact HIgh: Visualizing Kanye West with Photographer Ray Lego
Article on Mass Appeal: http://massappeal.com/contact-high-photographer-ray-lego-on-shooting-recent-college-dropout-kanye-west/
in 2005, Photographer Ray Lego captured Kanye West for the cover of Blender magazine, and recalls his experience of shooting Kanye that day.
Contact High: Gil Scott Heron and Photographer Gerald Jenkins
Article on Mass Appeal: http://massappeal.com/contact-high-photographer-gerald-jenkins-on-shooting-gil-scott-heron-in-a-land-down-under/
Photographer Gerald Jenkins talks about his 1995 shoot with the legendary Gil Scott Heron.
Contact High: Early Bob Marley Photos By Esther Anderson
Article on Mass Appeal: http://massappeal.com/contact-high-esther-anderson-on-photographing-bob-tuff-gong-marley-circa-1973/
Photographer and filmmaker Esther Anderson talks about her early Bob Marley photos, capturing poetic moments of a future legend and the consciousness they shared around Rastafari culture and consciousness.
The Missing Men
(In Production) The Missing Men is a feature documentary about time, the hopes and struggles of ex-offenders, and the lethal intersection between race and the criminal justice system, 30 years in the making.
Nocturne
(Narrative Short) Nocturne captures the essence of a college party with the complex relationships that occur when a group of people are thrown together, having very little common with one another.
Using substances to escape the boredom of partying, this group of five friends go through one night of exploring what kind of person each is, deep down, with masks removed.
Death and the Robot
A stop-motion animated film about a Robot who finds friendship in an unlikely place, amidst a dying world. For this film, I did the sound design and mixing.
AWARDS:
Asheville Cinema Fest (Best Anim. Short ’13)
Beaufort Int’l Film Fest (Best Anim. Short ’14)
Boston Int’l Film Festival (Best Anim. Short ’14), Ivy Film Festival (Best Anim. Short ’14)
Real to Reel Int’l Film Festival (Best Anim. Short ’14)
Sacrificial Poets
(Documentary Short) This is a story about a group called the Sacrificial Poets, and their journey to Egypt during the Arab Spring.
The Sacrificial Poets’ mission is to use the spoken and written word to activate, nurture, and amplify youth voices through creative expression, self-exploration, and the cultivation of safe spaces. Their goal is to elevate a lasting youth arts movement that builds community and reaches across lines of difference to provide all youth a space to feel welcome, be heard, foster strong relation ships, and become voices of change.
Polovtsian Dance COMMERCIAL
This is a commercial for a television dance feature in North Carolina called Polovtsian Dances by Susan Jaffe.
Forsyth Humane Society Homepage Video
My colleague and I shot this video together for the Forsyth Humane Society so that they could use it on their website’s homepage. I also did the editing for this project. We also created multiple other videos for FHS, including social media promotional content, and informative explainer videos for individuals who have just adopted an animal from this shelter.
Tenuous
(Narrative Short) Two sisters find themselves in similar situations and only one way to deal with it. Taking matters into their own hands could be the only way to change their lives.
AWARDS:
Asheville Cinema Fest
Beaufort Int’l Film Fest
Real to Reel Int’l Film Festival
Burning Fields
(Narrative Short) A newly paroled ex-con risks going back to prison to honor his biker grandmother's dying wish