Screened: NoBudge (2021), NFFTY (2020), Indie Memphis (2020), and Big Apple Film Festival (2020)
PLAYHOUSE
Resting on the shoulders of a single day, a young girl experiences the daunting immediacy of responsibility when tasked to care for her ailing grandmother.
Playhouse was one of fifteen films selected as a winner of the 2019 Sundance Ignite Challenge and Fellowship. The film was nominated for Best Narrative at the 2019 National Film Festival for Talented Youth (NFFTY) and was an official selection of the 2019 Middlebury New Filmmakers Festival.
Playhouse was supported through the Valentine and Clark Emerging Artist Fellowship in the Creative CultureFellowship at the Jacob Burns Film Center.
Screened: Sundance Film Festival (2019) and NFFTY (2019)
NISKYLAND
A young woman of color experiences two levels of exclusion: the emotional exclusion within a failing friendship and the environmental exclusion as a person of color living in a predominately white town.
Niskyland was an official selection of the 2019 Cinema Sisters International Film Festival. This film was supported by the Valentine and Clark Emerging Artist Fellowship in the Creative Culture Program at the Jacob Burns Film Center.