Feature Films:
The Long Black Veil – 2019 Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist – In 19th-century Ireland, a guileless lass is married off to an older farmer and finds affection in an affair with his brother, but after her lover is murdered by the British, she mourns him in disguise and falls in love with the most unlikely person: her husband.
The Trip – 2017 Nicholl Fellowship Quarterfinalist – When her husband is diagnosed with terminal cancer but wants to stop medical treatment in favor of psychedelics, a Type A doctor must let go of logic long enough to give him the life he wants before he dies.
Bring Me The Head of Comfy Cozy Cow – 2020 Austin Film Fest 2nd Rounder – When her son’s lovey goes missing on a Vegas vacation, an overprotective mom will stop at nothing to get it back, when what she really needs to do is to let her neurodivergent son handle his own challenges.
Sacred – One night in the life of high school freshman band geek Riley. She thinks the hot senior trombone player has invited her to hang out because he’s interested in her romantically, but is that really what’s up?
One-Hour Television:
Xenana – Forty years after human males have gone extinct, a worker drone desperate to avoid childbearing must reclaim her bodily autonomy from a totalitarian government rife with greed, tyranny, and corruption.
Night Tour – 1991. When an FBI agent with a serious chip on her shoulder is sent to a backwater Wyoming town, she gets embroiled in a series of copycat murders at a historic prison, and is drawn against her better judgement into solving the crimes and saving the teenaged girl who reminds her so much of herself at that age.
Satan’s Handmaidens – An up-close, irreverent look at the front line of the American culture wars: the lawn outside an abortion clinic in Richmond, VA. It’s Escorts vs. Antis, while caught in between are the patients forced to make choices in a world that takes more options away every day.
Thin Ice – A naïve young Mormon running from an ill-advised marriage lands a job at a struggling Mom-and-Pop ice rink, where she discovers her astonishing natural talent for figure skating – to the chagrin of her new rival, a single-minded workhorse who has dedicated her life to the sport. It’s Mozart vs. Salieri – with sequins!
TV Specs:
Poker Face – When a wannabe Van Life influencer murders her husband and pins the crime on a worker at the small-town KOA Kampground where Charlie is hiding out, Charlie must reckon with the slippery nature of truth and figure out why the innocent man agreed to be framed for the crime.
EVIL – Kristen, David and Ben investigate what seems to be a Satanic ritual at an abandoned prison on Staten Island, and uncover a disturbing link to a centuries-old Catholic sect with dark secrets.
Hacks – Encouraged by Ava to be more authentic onstage, Deborah talks about her abortion, and when the resulting fan backlash craters her QVC sales, she’s faced with the age-old choice between art and business.
Shorts:
The Crow -An innocent boy on the cusp of adulthood encounters a supernatural bird on a camping trip.
Tub Time – A girl with a rough home life finds a portal to a mirror universe at the bottom of her bathtub, but is life over there really any better?
Sorry For The Inconvenience – After society’s collapse, a young woman holes up in an abandoned bank. Does she have the will to survive? Is she really alone?