ABOUT
All my life, I dreamt of being a famous musician...
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That didn't happen.
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Later, I co-wrote the script for a 10 issue comic mini-series...
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It didn't get picked up.
But through that experience, I found screenwriting.
Soon after, I moved to Los Angeles to study filmmaking.
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And I did.
If you're interested in collaborating, I'm always looking for talented folks to work with. HMU.
FILMMAKER & ARTIST
Born & Raised in Louisiana
Live & work in Los Angeles, CA
Vocation: Screenwriting
Avocation: Cinematography & Photography
I LOVE WRITING. In a group or on my own, it's my favorite thing to do. Usually, you can find me in my basement office, sitting cozily in my office chair, Markus, typing away with a cat sleeping on my feet.
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Random
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10 years of experience as a professional musician
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8 years of audio engineering experience
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Was once a gymnast
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Pretty decent at a few card tricks
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Armchair physicist
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Made Mitch Hurwitz laugh once
(if you haven't seen "Arrested Development" yet, go do it now) -
Andy Daly once delivered me oranges
(if you haven't seen "Review" yet, go do it now)
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This site will likely always be a bit outdated, but I'll do my best.
CV
Education
2012 - 2015 Pasadena City College
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O.S.C. in Cinematography
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O.S.C. in Cinema Production
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A.A. Degree in Humanities
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A.A. Degree in Communication Arts
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A.A. Degree in Social & Behavioral Sciences
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Teaching Assistant in the Cinema Department for 2 years
2015 - 2019 California State University, Northridge
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B.A. Cinema & Television Arts
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M.F.A. Screenwriting
Grants & Awards
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2012 - Semi-finalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship for Screenwriting
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2013 - Best Intermediate Film, PCC Film Festival
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2013 - Westerbeck Scholarship for Performing Arts (PCC)
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2014 - Best Documentary, UCLA Shorttakes Film Festival
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2015 - TalNexus Apollo Lab for Storytelling in Television and Film
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2016 - Mary Bayramian Scholarship (CSUN)
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2019 - Semi-finalist, Academy Nicholl Fellowship for Screenwriting
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2019 - Semi-finalist, Slamdance Screenwriting Competition
Co-founder of VALLEYHEART PRODUCTIONS
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Writer/Director of Jacob's Brother
FAVORITE FILMS
(not exhaustive & in no particular order)
(2005) A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
(2008) The Brothers Bloom are the best con men in the world, swindling millionaires with complex scenarios of lust and intrigue. Now they've decided to take on one last job - showing a beautiful and eccentric heiress the time of her life with a romantic adventure that takes them around the world.
(2012) In 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.
(2017) Rey develops her newly discovered abilities with the guidance of Luke Skywalker, who is unsettled by the strength of her powers. Meanwhile, the Resistance prepares for battle with the First Order.
(2019) A detective investigates the death of a patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.
(2007) Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their family.
(2011) Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
(2012) Two young boys encounter a fugitive and form a pact to help him evade the vigilantes that are on his trail and to reunite him with his true love.
(1997) The story of a young man's adventures in the Californian pornography industry of the late 1970s and early 1980s.
(2007) A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
(1968) Humanity finds a mysterious, obviously artificial object buried beneath the Lunar surface and, with the intelligent computer H.A.L. 9000, sets off on a quest.
(1971) In future Britain, charismatic delinquent Alex DeLarge is jailed and volunteers for an experimental aversion therapy developed by the government in an effort to solve society's crime problem - but not all goes according to plan.
(1962) A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a fourteen-year-old nymphet.
(1987) A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
(1980) A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
(1968) A young couple move into an apartment, only to be surrounded by peculiar neighbors and occurrences. When the wife becomes mysteriously pregnant, paranoia over the safety of her unborn child begins to control her life.
(1973) When a teenage girl is possessed by a mysterious entity, her mother seeks the help of two priests to save her daughter.
(2014) A single mother, plagued by the violent death of her husband, battles with her son's fear of a monster lurking in the house, but soon discovers a sinister presence all around her.
(1975) When a gigantic great white shark begins to menace the small island community of Amity, a police chief, a marine scientist and a grizzled fisherman set out to stop it.
(2015) A family in 1630s New England is torn apart by the forces of witchcraft, black magic and possession.
(2004) Four friends/fledgling entrepreneurs, knowing that there's something bigger and more innovative than the different error-checking devices they've built, wrestle over their new invention.
(2013) A man and woman are drawn together, entangled in the life cycle of an ageless organism. Identity becomes an illusion as they struggle to assemble the loose fragments of wrecked lives.
(1998) "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
(2006) Two stage magicians engage in competitive one-upmanship in an attempt to create the ultimate stage illusion.
(2010) A thief who steals corporate secrets through use of the dream-sharing technology is given the inverse task of planting an idea into the mind of a CEO.
(1963) The wizard Merlin teaches a young boy who is destined to be King Arthur.
(1973) The story of the legendary outlaw is portrayed with the characters as humanoid animals.
(2001) In order to power the city, monsters have to scare children so that they scream. However, the children are toxic to the monsters, and after a child gets through, two monsters realize things may not be what they think.
(2008) In the distant future, a small waste-collecting robot inadvertently embarks on a space journey that will ultimately decide the fate of mankind.
(2009) Seventy-eight year old Carl Fredricksen travels to Paradise Falls in his home equipped with balloons, inadvertently taking a young stowaway.
(1990) Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.
(1980) An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.
(1995) Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire.
(1976) A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.
(1982) Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin wants to achieve success in show biz by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
(2004) A man decides to turn his moribund life around by winning back his ex-girlfriend, reconciling his relationship with his mother, and dealing with an entire community that has returned from the dead to eat the living.
(2007) Exceptional London cop Nicholas Angel is involuntarily transferred to a quaint English village and paired with a witless new partner. While on the beat, Nicholas suspects a sinister conspiracy is afoot with the residents.
(2013) Five friends who reunite in an attempt to top their epic pub crawl from twenty years earlier unwittingly become humanity's only hope for survival.
(2008) A young driver, Speed Racer, aspires to be champion of the racing world with the help of his family and his high-tech Mach 5 automobile.
(2009) Bi-polar mall security guard Ronnie Barnhardt is called into action to stop a flasher from turning shopper's paradise into his personal peep show. But when Barnhardt can't bring the culprit to justice, a surly police detective, is recruited to close the case.
(1954) A poor village under attack by bandits recruits seven unemployed samurai to help them defend themselves.
(1980) A petty thief with an utter resemblance to a samurai warlord is hired as the lord's double. When the warlord later dies the thief is forced to take up arms in his place.
(1958) Lured by gold, two greedy peasants escort a man and woman across enemy lines. However, they do not realize that their companions are actually a princess and her general.
(1950) A heinous crime and its aftermath are recalled from differing points of view.
(1961) A crafty ronin comes to a town divided by two criminal gangs and decides to play them against each other to free the town.
(2002) A lovelorn screenwriter becomes desperate as he tries and fails to adapt The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean for the screen.
(1998) An oddball journalist and his psychopathic lawyer travel to Las Vegas for a series of psychedelic escapades.
(2014) A military officer is brought into an alien war against an extraterrestrial enemy who can reset the day and know the future. When this officer is enabled with the same power, he teams up with a Special Forces warrior to try and end the war.
(2003) The Bride wakens from a four-year coma. The child she carried in her womb is gone. Now she must wreak vengeance on the team of assassins who betrayed her - a team she was once part of.
(2009) In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a plan to assassinate Nazi leaders by a group of Jewish U.S. soldiers coincides with a theatre owner's vengeful plans for the same.