Narrative
There’s nothing like the rush of getting a shot where the lighting and the acting and the camera all align in one great filmic moment.
But a close second is when you’re editing and that “one great filmic moment” doesn’t actually fit, but you know what you have cut together is even better without it. Or maybe it’s when you’re working on the mix… or when you watch it with an audience of strangers… or… well, it’s all really great.
The Housesitters (2022)
LOGLINE: Erin and Matt are best friends, underemployed entertainers, and terrible housesitters. And when they find themselves staying at the site of an infamous murder, they begin to wonder if someone is trying to recreate the crime.
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Hollyshorts (2022), Tallgrass (2022), Nightmares Film Festival (2022), NYC Horror Fest (2022), Sherman Oaks Film Festival (2022), Nevermore (2023)
WINNER: Best Actor Matt McConkey - Sherman Oaks FF (2022), Best Actress Erin Pineda - Sherman Oaks FF (2022), Best Horror Comedy - Studio City FF (2022), Best Actor Matt McConkey, Nominated - Nevermore (2023)
ZERO ONE ZERO (2021)
LOGLINE: Looking to boost his confidence, Chuck tries a new meditation technique and manifests a night he won’t forget.
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Dances With Films (2021), Tallgrass (2021), Another Hole in the Head (2021), Short Shorts (2022), Longleaf (2022), NY Science Fiction & Horror (2022), Highland Park Film Festival (2022), SF3 Smartphone Film Festival (2022).
WINNER: Best Mobile Short Film - Indiefilmopolis (2022), Honorable Mention - African Smartphone Film Festival (2022)
Pops (2020)
LOGLINE: Danny visits his estranged father to resolve their murky history and finds his “Pops” a different man than he remembers.
OFFICIAL SELECTION: Tallgrass (2020), Jane Austen Film Festival (2020), Studio City Film Festival (2020), Highland Park Film Festival (2021),
WINNER: Best Short Film, Nominated - ABQ Film Festival (2021); Semi-Finalist - Blow Up Arthouse Film Fest (2021), Honorable Mention - Highland Park Film Festival (2021)
A Song to Pass the Time (2018)
LOGLINE: A grieving woman retreats to a cabin in the hopes of seclusion, but finds it interrupted by entering an affair with a sincere young man.
CREDIT: Producer, Editor
Official Selection: Oaxaca Film Festival (2018)
Zombie Town (2016)
LOGLINE: A zombie, on the hunt for brains, struggles to survive in Zombie Town.
Zombie Town is a “Flam” — a short film made of three shots and three shots only.
CREDIT: Director, Writer, Producer, Editor, DP
A “flam” is a short film made up entirely of 3 shots.