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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, Orlando, Dances with Films, Scream in the Dark, and Long Beach Indie International Film 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.
"Filtered Reality: The Birth of Torture Porn and Shockumentary Cinema" - Academic paper presented at Long Beach Indie Film & Media Conference
Examines the way in which the found footage horror genre (aka docu-horror) has evolved from "slasher" films and into "torture porn" cinema. Contains ideological analysis, history, and an examination as how and why the horror genre continues to progress in this direction.
Yellow Barrel - Writer & Editor
Offers Film Analysis and Criticism across the history of cinema
"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 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, Orlando, Dances with Films, Scream in the Dark, and Long Beach Indie International Film 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.
"Filtered Reality: The Birth of Torture Porn and Shockumentary Cinema" - Academic paper presented at Long Beach Indie Film & Media Conference
Examines the way in which the found footage horror genre (aka docu-horror) has evolved from "slasher" films and into "torture porn" cinema. Contains ideological analysis, history, and an examination as how and why the horror genre continues to progress in this direction.
Yellow Barrel - Writer & Editor
Offers Film Analysis and Criticism across the history of cinema
"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 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.