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film producer & Outreach coordinator
For over five and a half years, I worked with Emmy Award-winning filmmaker Ric Burns and the team at Steeplechase Films on many documentaries including Oliver Sacks: His Own Life (2019) and Driving While Black: Race, Space & Mobility in America (2020). More information about each film is featured below, as well as a collection of production stills I took while on set. While working as a producer, my responsibilities included archival & historical research, database management, grant writing, budgeting, field production, script development, social media management, website development, and other duties as assigned.
While producing Driving While Black alongside Emir Lewis, professor & award-winning filmmaker, I had the opportunity to collaborate with many talented creative professionals across multiple disciplines, including the animation team at rezonate, dialogue facilitators from the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience, the team at PBS LearningMedia, and Grammy Award-winner Brian Keane and his talented collective of musicians. After the film was released in the fall of 2020, my responsibilities shifted to coordination of outreach events across the country including film screenings at the New-York Historical Society, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Martha's Vineyard Film Festival, the Justice Film Festival, and Glimmerglass Film Days.
forthcoming from steeplechase films
NEW YORK EPISODE 9: THE FUTURE OF CITIES
Ric Burns & James Sanders return with the newest installment to the award winning, eight-part, seventeen-and-a-half-hour series, New York: A Documentary Film. The epic four-century history of America’s largest city is brought to the present day, tracing the extraordinary story of 21st-century New York, a battered but steadfast beacon of hope, promise & progress. The film will explore New York City through local, grassroots, and institutional lenses -- exploring themes of identity, growth, economic instability, impending climate challenges, social justice & governance.
DANTE
Forthcoming from Steeplechase Films under the guidance of professor emeritus of Italian literature, Riccardo Bruscagli, DANTE will explore the riveting life and times of Dante Alighieri and his soaring classical narrative poem The Divine Comedy. Mesmerizing, dreamlike and disorienting, it has become a behemoth of modern literature that continues to inspire creatives throughout the centuries. A dramatic tale of love, despair, exile, and reflection -- the documentary will provide important historical context, recounting the political and religious ideologies of Florence and Europe, through one man's creative and spiritual journey, that transformed a nation's vernacular language along the way.
ALASKA
The Anchorage Museum is collecting archival materials, community histories, and cultivating space for young professional Alaska Native filmmakers to share their stories & hone their craft. The documentary will explore the history, geography, anthropology, mythology, international politics, and leading climate efforts, in America's “last frontier." Since its inception, Alaska has held steady as a place of resilience and adaptation, of individualism and community, and of continued innovation.