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Road to the Well - Feature Screenplay - 2nd Round Finalist Austin Film Festival with screenings at Twin Cities, San Diego, Lone Star, Dances with Films, Scream in the Dark, Orlando Film Festival where it won Best Supporting Actor, and Long Beach Indie International Film Festival where it won Best of the Festival.
A drifter pays a visit to an old friend whose mundane life is upended after the two become involved in a seemingly random murder. The pair then embark on a strange & cerebral journey up to the Northern California Sierra in order to bury the body - meeting old friends, lost loves, backwoods bawds, and a suspicious ex-Military Chaplain, all while discovering how exactly the victim came to be killed.
"Not Quite Reality: Aspect Dawning, Wittgenstein, and the Ontology of Found Footage in The Blair Witch Project" (MA Philosophy Thesis) - Expanding upon the Philosophy in Practice publication below, I successfully defended my thesis in May 2025. This paper dove deeper into applications of the later Wittgenstein toward analytic philosophy, film theory, and the found footage film, using The Blair Witch Project as a case study.
“Destroyer of Worlds: The Archimedean Point, Action, and Bureaucracy in Oppenheimer” - Academic paper presented at the University Film & Video Association
Christopher Nolan's film Oppenheimer delves into the moral and practical dilemmas of scientists working on the atomic bomb. This paper will analyze how Hannah Arendt's concepts of action, bureaucracy, and the Archimedean Point from her book The Human Condition are reflected in the film through both the overall narrative and through individual characters.
"Not Quite Reality: Aspect Dawning via the Intra-diegetic Camera in The Blair Witch Project" - Philosophy in Practice Spring '23. This academic paper explores the intersection between Wittgenstein, analytic philosophy, and film theory as applied to the found footage film.
"Filtered Reality: The Birth of Torture Horror and Shockumentary Cinema" - Academic paper presented at Long Beach Indie Film & Media Conference
Examines the evolution of the found footage film (aka "shockumentary") and "torture horror" cinema from ~1999-2005. The paper contains ideological, historical, economic, and technological analysis.
"Columbus" - 8-episode Mini-Series - 2nd Round Finalist Sundance Episodic Labs
In the southwest suburbs of Chicago, a slasher killer has returned to town on the ten year anniversary of his death, killing a victim per night over Columbus Day weekend. The multi-narrative story follows ten individuals across the community.
Runaway Trayne - Feature (Drama) - 2nd Round Austin Film Festival (2021); Quarterfinalist Screencraft Drama Competition (2021); Quarterfinalist Screencraft Feature Competition (2021)
When gang members invade a small Honduran town, forcing the people to make the dangerous journey into America, a seamstress named Trayne is handed an infant moments before the mother is killed. Caught in the states, Trayne's separated from the child, dealing with a system that seems intent on keeping them apart.
A Void; The Dust - Feature (Sci-Fi Thriller) - Stage 32 Sci-Fi Finalist (2020), PAGE Awards Quarter-Finalist (2020)
An engineer who operates an automated semi-truck in the near future responds to an SOS call from an alleged woman trapped in an old mine and instead discovers an alien nanotech AI microchip which quickly infects the town, and if not stopped, the world could soon follow.
Death Puzzle Vol. 1 - Feature (Horror) - Screencraft Horror Semi-Finalist (2020)
When a group of college students arrive at a mysterious costume ball at a remote mansion, they're greeted by a murderous and colorful band of cosplayers who demand they solve a series of puzzles or face death.
Road to the Well - Feature Screenplay - 2nd Round Finalist Austin Film Festival with screenings at Twin Cities, San Diego, Lone Star, Dances with Films, Scream in the Dark, Orlando Film Festival where it won Best Supporting Actor, and Long Beach Indie International Film Festival where it won Best of the Festival.
A drifter pays a visit to an old friend whose mundane life is upended after the two become involved in a seemingly random murder. The pair then embark on a strange & cerebral journey up to the Northern California Sierra in order to bury the body - meeting old friends, lost loves, backwoods bawds, and a suspicious ex-Military Chaplain, all while discovering how exactly the victim came to be killed.
"Not Quite Reality: Aspect Dawning, Wittgenstein, and the Ontology of Found Footage in The Blair Witch Project" (MA Philosophy Thesis) - Expanding upon the Philosophy in Practice publication below, I successfully defended my thesis in May 2025. This paper dove deeper into applications of the later Wittgenstein toward analytic philosophy, film theory, and the found footage film, using The Blair Witch Project as a case study.
“Destroyer of Worlds: The Archimedean Point, Action, and Bureaucracy in Oppenheimer” - Academic paper presented at the University Film & Video Association
Christopher Nolan's film Oppenheimer delves into the moral and practical dilemmas of scientists working on the atomic bomb. This paper will analyze how Hannah Arendt's concepts of action, bureaucracy, and the Archimedean Point from her book The Human Condition are reflected in the film through both the overall narrative and through individual characters.
"Not Quite Reality: Aspect Dawning via the Intra-diegetic Camera in The Blair Witch Project" - Philosophy in Practice Spring '23. This academic paper explores the intersection between Wittgenstein, analytic philosophy, and film theory as applied to the found footage film.
"Filtered Reality: The Birth of Torture Horror and Shockumentary Cinema" - Academic paper presented at Long Beach Indie Film & Media Conference
Examines the evolution of the found footage film (aka "shockumentary") and "torture horror" cinema from ~1999-2005. The paper contains ideological, historical, economic, and technological analysis.
"Columbus" - 8-episode Mini-Series - 2nd Round Finalist Sundance Episodic Labs
In the southwest suburbs of Chicago, a slasher killer has returned to town on the ten year anniversary of his death, killing a victim per night over Columbus Day weekend. The multi-narrative story follows ten individuals across the community.
Runaway Trayne - Feature (Drama) - 2nd Round Austin Film Festival (2021); Quarterfinalist Screencraft Drama Competition (2021); Quarterfinalist Screencraft Feature Competition (2021)
When gang members invade a small Honduran town, forcing the people to make the dangerous journey into America, a seamstress named Trayne is handed an infant moments before the mother is killed. Caught in the states, Trayne's separated from the child, dealing with a system that seems intent on keeping them apart.
A Void; The Dust - Feature (Sci-Fi Thriller) - Stage 32 Sci-Fi Finalist (2020), PAGE Awards Quarter-Finalist (2020)
An engineer who operates an automated semi-truck in the near future responds to an SOS call from an alleged woman trapped in an old mine and instead discovers an alien nanotech AI microchip which quickly infects the town, and if not stopped, the world could soon follow.
Death Puzzle Vol. 1 - Feature (Horror) - Screencraft Horror Semi-Finalist (2020)
When a group of college students arrive at a mysterious costume ball at a remote mansion, they're greeted by a murderous and colorful band of cosplayers who demand they solve a series of puzzles or face death.