Curriculum Vitae
Teaching Experience
2015-Present: Associate Professor of Film, Georgia Gwinnett College (Lawrenceville, GA)
Intro to Film, Video Production I, Video Production II, Writing for Film and Television, Writer’s Room, The Art of Cinematography, Survey of Animation, Action Movies, 21st Century Science Fiction, Documentary, Director’s Workshop, Internship
2011-2015: Adjunct Instructor, Lake Forest College
(Lake Forest, IL)
Documentary Filmmaking, Race Media & Culture, Introduction to Film Studies
2009-2015: Adjunct Instructor, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI)
Film & Experience, Media Arts Production, Art & the Environment, Cartoons Animation & the Graphic Novel, Cinema and Surveillance, Indie Cinema of North America, Performance & Popular Culture
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Education
2025 Master of Arts: Art and Design (Digital Animation Concentration)
Kennesaw State University (Kennesaw, GA)
2009 Master of Fine Arts: Mass Communication and Media Arts
Southern Illinois University Carbondale (Carbondale, IL)
Full Tuition Waiver, Lauren Cocking Animation Award
2003 Bachelor of Fine Arts: Film Production (Major) Film Studies (Minor)
University of Wisconsin Milwaukee (Milwaukee, WI)
Senior High Honors, High Honors in Major Award
Exhibitions/Screenings
2025
Minute Madness Toronto (Toronto, Canada)
AI Film 3: AI Film and Arts Festival (Phoenix, AZ)
Bunnell Street Art Center (Homer, AK)
Emory Cinematheque (Atlanta, GA)
LA Filmforum (Los Angeles, CA)
Earth Gallery (London, UK)
Atlanta Microshort Film Festival (Atlanta, GA)
Atlanta Immersion (Atlanta, GA)
Jersey Devil Film Festival (Asbury Park, NJ)
2024
Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, NM)
Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI)
Stalking Eastern Europe (Tartu, Estonia)
Atlanta Audio Visual Festival (Atlanta, GA)
Convergence: The Atlanta Art + Film Expo (Atlanta, GA)
OFF THE WALL: Everything is Perfect and Nothing is Perfect (Atlanta, GA)
2023
Digital Graffiti (Alys Beach, FL) Finalist
Bideodromo International Experimental Film Festival (Bilbao, Spain)
Experimental Brasil (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival (Morgantown, WV)
Montgomery Film Festival (Montgomery, AL)
accordi @ DISACCORDI International Short Film Festival (Naples, Italy)
Cinemanimal (Guanajuato City, Mexico)
Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (Gimpo, South Korea)
2022
Thomas Edison Film Festival (Hoboken, NJ) Director's Choice Award, Touring Program
Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI) Golden Badger Award
Digital Graffiti (Alys Beach, FL) Finalist
Indie Memphis (Memphis, TN)
Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, OH)
Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL)
Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, NM)
Dobra Festival Internacional de Cinema Experimental (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
VASTLAB Experimental (Los Angeles, CA)
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival (Morgantown, WV)
Bideodromo International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Bilbao, Spain)
Tune in to Green (Austin, TX)
Alternative Night of Experimental Film (London, England)
Malatesta Short Film Festival (Cesena, Italy)
Canopy Cinema (Atlanta, GA)
Altered Images Film and Music Festival (London, UK)
Experimental Film Guanajuato (Guanajuato City, Mexico)
2021
Altered Images Film and Music Festival (London, UK)
Exquisite Shorts (Atlanta, GA)
Local Filmmaker Showcase (Decatur, GA)
Fort Myers Beach International Film Festival Screenplay Competition (Fort Myers, FL)
2020
Atlanta Film Festival Screenplay Competition (Atlanta, GA) Finalist
Short Closeup Screenplay Contest (Bucharest, Romania) Best Short Screenplay
The Good Dog! Film Festival (Sydney, Australia) Best Short Screenplay
Ospizio Giovani Artisti Gallery: Nuove Astrazioni (Rome, Italy)
Black Maria Virtual Film Festival (blackmariafilmfestival.org)
2019
UNCG Sustainability Short Film Competition (Greensboro, NC) Grand Prize
DUMBO Film Festival (New York, NY) Best Experimental
Digital Graffiti (Alys Beach, FL) Finalist
Atlanta Film Festival (Atlanta, GA)
Athens International Film & Video Festival (Athens, OH)
Experiments in Cinema (Albuquerque, NM)
Another Experiment by Women Film Festival (New York, NY)
Dobra Festival Internacional de Cinema Experimental (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil)
Mostra Internacional de Áudio/ Vídeo/ Filme/ Performance (Florianópolis, Brazil)
Llawn Festival: Out of Line (Llandudno, UK)
Graphic Intelligences & Algorithmic Fictions Conference (Vitória and São Paulo, Brazil)
LUNA (Atlanta, GA)
Ospizio Giovani Artisti (Rome, Italy)
Dallas Medianale (Dallas, TX)
Saigon Experimental Film Festival (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Festival Ecrã (Rio De Janeiro, Brazil)
Ibrida festival delle arti intermediali (Forlì, Italy)
Rencontres Traverse Vidéo (Toulouse, France)
Braziers Mini-Indi Festival (Oxfordshire, UK)
West Virginia Mountaineer Short Film Festival (Morgantown, PA)
The Hazel Eye Film Festival (Nashville, TN)
Lindsay Gallery (Columbus, OH)
2018
The Exchange Gallery (Bloomsburg, PA)
Intuit: The Center for Intuitive and Outsider Art (Chicago, IL)
2017
Atlanta Film Festival (Atlanta, GA)
Airport Shorts 4.0 (Atlanta, GA)
Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, OH)
Delete TV (London, UK)
Spectral Microcinema (Steven’s Point, WI)
Jecheon International Music and Film Festival (Jecheon, South Korea)
2016
Black Maria Film Festival (Jersey City, NJ) Jury's Choice Award, Touring Program
Cause & Effect: Georgia Progressive Film Festival (Athens, GA) Jury Award
Wonder Root Generally Local, Mostly Independent Film Series (Atlanta, GA)
New Mavericks Film Festival (Atlanta, GA)
Minne Mini Film Festival (Minneapolis, MN)
Rockford Art Museum (Rockford, IL)
Prairie State Film Festival (Peoria, IL)
Door County Short Film Festival (Sister Bay, WI)
Wildwood Film Festival (Appleton, WI)
2015
Milwaukee Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI)
APEX Film and Music Festival (Rochester, MN)
Red Wing Festival of the Arts (Red Wing, MN)
Flyway Film Festival (Pepin, Stockholm, Maiden Rock and Alma, WI
Central Wisconsin Film Festival (Stevens Point and Wausau, WI)
New Filmmakers Fall Series (New York, NY)
Honeytone Film and Music Showcase (Milwaukee, WI)
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2014
Wildwood Film Festival (Appleton, WI) Best Comedy
Green Bay Film Festival (Green Bay, WI) Finalist
We Like ‘Em Short Film Festival (Baker City, OR)
Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI)
2013
Milwaukee Short Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI) Artistic Achievement Award
Frederick Layton Gallery (Milwaukee, WI) Mary Nohl Suitcase Export Grant
Milwaukee Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI)
SpectreArts (Durham, NC)
2012
Black Maria Film and Video Festival (Jersey City, NJ) Director’s Choice Award
Another Experiment by Women Filmmakers (New York, NY)
The Milwaukee Short Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI)
Urban Ecology Center (Milwaukee, WI)
Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI)
National Centre for the Performing Arts (Mumbai, India)
2011
Athens International Film and Video Festival (Athens, OH) Best Experimental
Wisconsin Film Festival (Madison, WI) Golden Badger Award
Rural Route Film Festival (New York, NY) Best Experimental, Touring Program
Milwaukee Underground Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI) Jury Award
Milwaukee Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI)
Rural Route Film Festival Traveling Program (Various Venues)
If You Squint: An Evening of Avant Garde Films (Madison, WI)
Big Muddy International Film Festival (Carbondale, IL)
Dallas Video Fest (Dallas, TX)
Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, NC)
Filmmaker’s Showcase (Charlotte, NC)
Synch! Film and Music Festival (Bronx, NY)
Greentopia Film Festival (Rochester, NY)
Bunnell Street Arts Center (Homer, AK)
MTS Gallery (Anchorage, AK)
Light Factory Showcase (Milwaukee, WI)
Central Wisconsin Film Festival (Steven’s Point, WI)
Worldkids Foundation International Film Festival (Delhi, India)
Twisp Rural Routes Film Festival (Twisp, WA)
2010
Kids First! Film Festival (Santa Fe, NM) Jury Award
ICA Boston: Urban Parables (Boston, MA)
Reel Earth International Environmental Film Festival (Palmerston North, New Zealand)
Princeton Environmental Film Festival (Princeton, NJ)
Los Angeles International Children’s Film Festival (Santa Monica, CA)
San Diego Children’s International Film Festival (San Diego, CA)
San Francisco Bay Area Children’s International Film Festival (San Francisco, CA)
Epiphany Children’s Film Festival (New York, NY)
Providence Children’s International Film Festival (Providence, RI)
Children’s Film Festival Seattle (Seattle, WA)
REDCAT International Children’s Film Festival (Los Angeles, CA)
Earth and Sky Days (Grand Rapids, MI)
Flatland Film Festival (Lubbock, TX)
Wildwood Film Festival (Appleton, WI)
Strange Beauty Film Festival (Durham, NC)
Mini Cine Picture Show (London, UK)
Flicker Film Festival Spokane (Spokane, WA)
Flicker Film Festival Chapel Hill (Carrboro, NC)
Milwaukee at its Best Showcase (Milwaukee, WI)
Conduit Cinema (Milwaukee, WI)
Cedarhurst Center for the Arts (Mount Vernon, IL)
2009
Wildwood Film Festival (Appleton, WI) Best Experimental
Naturescapes (Olean, NY) Honorable Mention
Houston Art Alliance (Houston, TX) Purchase Award
Milwaukee Short Film Festival (Milwaukee, WI)
Material Afterlife Short Film Competition (Grand Rapids, MI)
Beloit International Film Festival (Beloit, WI)
The People’s Choice International Short Film Festival (Quito, Ecuador)
ArtFilmPerformance (New York, NY)
Central Wisconsin Film Festival (Stevens Point, WI)
Big Water Film Festival (Washburn, WI)
ArtQuinox (Minneapolis, MN)
Aaurau International One-Minute Film Festival (Aarau, Switzerland)
Renderyard One-Minute Challenge (London, England, UK)
Columbia Gorge International Film Festival (Washougal, WA)
Workhouse Film and Music Festival (Llanfyllin, Wales, UK)
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2008
Delta State International Film Festival (Cleveland, MS)
2005
Flicker Film Festival New York (New York, NY) Flicker Grant Award
Big Muddy Film Festival (Carbondale, IL) Honorable Mention
Take 291 Experimental Film Series (London, England, UK)
Invisible Film Series (New York, NY)
Synch! Film and Music Festival (London, England, UK)
Film Placements
The Universe in a Grain of Sand (Mark Levinson, 2024.) Featured clips of Ad Meliora (2022), Cosmos Obscura (2018) and Microspectrum (2016)
Commissions
2022 Public Video Art Commission, Digital Interactive Liberal Arts Center at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Atlanta, GA)
2017 Public Video Art Commission, Atlanta Film Festival Airport Shorts 4.0 (Atlanta, GA)
Collections
Best of Rural Route Film Festival (New York, NY)
Frederick Layton Gallery (Milwaukee, WI)
Houston Art Alliance (Houston, TX)