Videos
U.S. Coast Guard: Polar Guardians
Director // Producer // Writer // Story Editor
The U.S. Coast Guard hired Silver Fir Media to produce a 30-minute documentary about the history of polar icebreaking ships, and I managed the project as producer, director, and writer.
Producing this film involved shooting 20 interviews with retired sailors and subject-matter experts between the Pacific Northwest, New England, and Washington DC.
Bureau of Land Management: Feathers and Frontiers
Producer // Co-Director // Co-Editor // Co-Writer
The Snake River Birds of Prey Natural Conservation Area in southern Idaho is home to the highest concentration of birds of prey in North America. To commemorate its 25th anniversary, the Bureau of Land Management hired Silver Fir Media to produce this 40-minute documentary on its cultural and natural history. Making this film was a year-long process that included 28 days of filming in different seasons.
Seattle Academy: Open House 2024
Director // Producer // Cinematographer // Editor
Every year since 2017, I have produced the Open House video for Seattle Academy, a private school in the heart of Seattle’s Capitol Hill neighborhood. The videos feature a huge variety of student and faculty voices, with the goal of giving the viewer a sense of what it’s like to attend the school.
Each year, we produce separate videos for the Middle School and High School. Here’s the most recent middle school video:
Moon Landing Memories (finalist in the 2023 NASA CineSpace short film competition)
Director // Producer // Director of Photography // Co-Editor
Out of 290 submissions, “Moon Landing Memories” was selected as one of 11 finalists in the 2023 NASA CineSpace short film competition.
An estimated 650 million people watched the Apollo 11 moon landing on television in July 1969. Each one of them has a story. In this short film, hear from a handful of ordinary people as they remember watching the TV that day.
Hamlin Robinson School: Teacher Appreciation
Director // Director of Photography
Hamlin Robinson School is a school for students with dyslexia and other language-based learning differences. The school approached me with this concept for a video to celebrate Teacher Appreciation Week. We put this video together with a one-day shoot featuring students and the teachers they selected to express appreciation.
Fortive: Day of Caring
Director // Producer // Drone Operator
Fortive is a corporation that operates in a number of sectors, but one thing that unites all of its employees is Day of Caring. All Fortive employees spend one paid work day every year giving back to their communities as a volunteer. This video highlights one Day of Caring event in Long Beach, CA, and then zooms out to show the global scale of Day of Caring, which 20,000 employees participate in. Produced for Red Element Studios.
Seattle Academy: Class of 2024 Graduation videos
Director // Director of Photography // Editor
As part of Seattle Academy’s graduation ceremony each year, I produce several videos featuring interviews with graduates as they reflect on their time at the school. The project involves interviewing more than 140 high schoolers each year, and editing those interviews down to ~30 minutes of videos to be played at graduation. We’ve been doing this every year since the 2017 graduation.
National Park Service: Cascade Red Fox Survey Volunteering Recruitment
Director // Producer
This is the short version of a 9-minute training and volunteer recruitment video produced for the National Park Service. The goal of this video is to reach viewers who may be interested in volunteering to participate in the carnivore scat collection program at Mt. Rainier, which aims to learn more about the carnivores living in the park through genetic sampling of their poop. The study’s carnivore of greatest interest is the Cascade Red Fox, a unique and rare species of fox found only in the Cascade mountain range.
Microsoft: HOLA Hispanic Community Leader Panel Discussion 2024
Director of Photography // Editor
One of several panel discussions recorded for Microsoft’s 2024 Hispanic community event.
Glen Canyon National Recreation Area - Public Service Announcement Campaign
Producer // Writer // Assistant Camera
We were contracted to produce 11 public service announcements for Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, which ran as local ads on television and online in Arizona and Utah. These were made on limited budget with a crew of three, so everyone ultimately wore multiple hats.
Lake Washington Girls Middle School: Open House 2024
Director // Director of Photography // Editor
Becoming A Man
Director of Photography
A profile on the nonprofit movement Becoming A Man, produced by Waka Waka Studios.
National Park Service: Haunting in the Hills 28th Annual Storytelling Festival
Director // Producer // Editor // Camera Operator
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Obed National Wild & Scenic River in Tennessee was unable to hold its 28th annual Haunting in the Hills Storytelling Festival in-person during Halloween 2020. Instead, we were hired to rapidly film four professional storytellers and turn around two distinct 2-hour films that were played at a drive-thru theater. We captured all of the material for both films in one day, and then turned around the final cuts five days later.
Muckleshoot Tribe: “Homeland”
Director of Photography // Editor
Seattle Academy: Annual Financial Aid Fundraiser videos
Director // Director of Photography // Editor
Every winter, Seattle Academy holds its “SAAS in the City” gala to raise funds for financial aid. The money raised at this event allows more students from all backgrounds to afford tuition and participate in the full experience of the school. I produce a video for the event each year that aims to communicate the impact of this financial aid program.
Machinist Institute: Joshua’s Story - Recruitment Video
Director of Photography
Benaroya Research Institute: Message from the President
Director of Photography
Irons Brothers: Lynnwood Reinvented
Director of Photography
Great Parks of Hamilton County: Adventure
Producer
Swanson’s Plant Nursery: 30-second Seattle Seahawks social media promo
Director of Photography // Editor
Crosscut: Comcast/Goodwill Job Training Program
Director // Producer
Goodwill's job training program, supported by Comcast, literally transforms lives by giving free professional training to low-income residents in the Puget Sound region. This video, which regularly aired on KCTS-9 for several months, provides a brief peak into the program and the woman running it.
Major League Soccer: Fanning the Flames on Seattle vs. Portland
Director // Producer
The Seattle Sounders and Portland Timbers might have the fiercest rivalry in the MLS. This video explored that conflict as part of MLS Rivalry Week 2017. Produced by Red Element Studios for Major League Soccer.
HuffPost: From Garbage Man to Furniture Designer
Director // Director of Photography
A profile piece on furniture designer Greg Klassen, who diverged from his California peach farm roots to become an artisan table maker in northwestern Washington. Produced for HuffPost.
MarninSaylor: Storefront Indiegogo Crowdfunding Campaign
Director // Director of Photography // Editor
A simple crowdfunding video for Seattle’s local handmade toy company, MarninSaylor.
Leave No Child Inside: Administrators on Outdoor Learning
Producer // Writer // Editor
This is one of four videos produced for Leave No Child Inside, an organization that promotes outdoor education for children. In this video, school administrators discuss the benefits of getting children outside to learn.
Leave No Child Inside: Kids Make a Case for the Outdoors
Producer // Writer // Editor
This is one of four videos produced for Leave No Child Inside, an organization that promotes outdoor education for children. This video features some talented young actors delivering a message on behalf of children everywhere about the benefits of outdoor education.
Global Good: Unlocking the Potential of Biometric Identification for Health
Editor // Production Coordinator
Global Good and Element have teamed up to streamline healthcare around the globe by developing a new approach to identifying patients who don't carry traditional identification: Scanning their fingerprints, eyes, and other unique biological markers to identify them and track their medical records over their lifetime. This video was created to introduce the technology and highlight the problems it aims to solve.
Great Parks of Hamilton County Promotional Video
Co-Director // Producer
A promotional video for the county parks surrounding Cincinnati, OH. Part of a series of dozens of videos produced by Silver Fir Media for the Great Parks of Hamilton County.
Great Parks of Hamilton County: Sharon Woods
Co-Director // Producer
A promotional video for Sharon Woods, a gorgeous county park outside Cincinnati. Part of an 18-video series produced by Silver Fir Media for the Great Parks of Hamilton County.