DOCUMENTARY
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DOCUMENTARY ✿
Breadwinners
2023 • Digital Documentary Series (5 x 10 minute episodes)
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Breadwinners is a 5-episode documentary series about the farmers, food distributors, and cooks who feed everyday New Yorkers. Each ~10 minute episode is told from the perspective of a different food worker and explores what food means to them and to their community.
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Editor • Director • Producer
Made with colleague and BFF, Courtney Schaefer,the two of us pitched, developed, and created this project while at Daydream Studios, helping to launch the agency’s original content department. Courtney and I produced and directed every element of this series together, and I edited each episode. -
Awards (2023): Best Series, deadCenter Film festival; Best Unscripted, Stareable; AMC Best Female Creator, Stareable
Additional Selections (2023): Flickers’ Roving Eye Film Festival, LA Indie Film Fest, Big Apple Film Festival
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Kismet
2024 • Documentary Short (35 minutes)
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In this vérité documentary short, eight teenagers spend a week in New Hampshire at a technical rock climbing program where they begin to consider the potential of shaping their own destinies.
Production company: Daydream Studios
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Editor
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Selections: DOC NYC, New Hampshire Film Festival, Newburyport Documentary Film Festival
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Brenda
2025 • Documentary Short (26 minutes)
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In this documentary short, a mother’s love for her children becomes her strength as she faces unimaginable challenges on a journey towards a safer life in America.
Production company: Incurrent Media
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Editor
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You can watch the trailer here (cut by me!)
Film forthcoming.
KCSM: The Bay Area’s Jazz Station to the World
2024 • Documentary (60 minutes)
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To celebrate its 60th anniversary, KCSM wanted to tell the story of its history, the enduring power of jazz, and the station’s commitment to the community it serves. The radio station partnered with Incurrent Media to produce this hour-long documentary about the station’s legacy and the power of America’s only original art form.
Production company: Incurrent Media
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Lead Editor
Cut on a 4-week timeline from hard drive hand-off to final delivery.
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You can watch the trailer here (cut by me!)
Film available upon request.