I was born in Alaska and raised without electricity or running water. There was no TV. I didn’t have a flushing toilet until I went to college. I read a lot of books. Into my teens I could count on my hands the number of times I had visited a Cinema. If given the opportunity, my first choice of activity was always a movie. A camera was always the coolest toy.
We spent a lot of time in the backcountry on horseback and sleeping in a tepee. There were a lot of campfires and cold nights and stories told by lantern light. Stories.
Images found in the imagination before a flickering firelight. Narrative architecture flowing forth from multiple voices. Untrained. Unrefined. Instinctual oral tradition. Bits of books and movies and experiences and memories and second-hand hearsay. Stories.
Stories got into the blood and became the only path forward.
Today I work as a director, cinematographer and photographer. It’s all storytelling.
I’ve made independent films, dozens of music videos, commercials, documentaries and television programs for Netflix, Discovery Channel, Nat Geo, History Channel, A&E, Red Bull & many others.
This path has provided some amazing adventures and experiences.
I look forward to all those stories yet untold.
Panasonic LUMIX USA Ambassador
2014 Emmy Win - Unstructured Reality Program / Producer
2014 Emmy Win - Outstanding Cinematography for Reality Programming / Director of Photography
2014 Best Documentary - So Cal Creative and Innovative Film Festival - “Wishbones & Gunfire” Director/DP/Producer
2018 & 19 Emmy Nom - Outstanding Cinematography for Reality Programming / Director of Photography
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