ALL THINGS METAL
Independently produced: Acquired by Rolling stone & Doc+
RELEASE: TRIBECA, 2024
ROLE: PRODUCER
SUMMARY: Three brothers run a metal forge in Santa Barbara, CA. After hours, the blacksmith trio moonlight as a heavy metal band in wildly imaginative music videos. Their mastery of numerous artistic talents may have something to do with a disability they developed as kids, but it taught them to pursue kinetic lives of creativity and humor.
ABC & ESPN+ : A four part series
RELEASE: May, 2024
ROLE: PRODUCER
SUMMARY: Full Court Press follows Caitlin Clark, Kamilla Cardoso, and Kiki Rice throughout the 2024 record-breaking women’s college basketball season. These superstar athletes steer their celebrated programs towards a national championship, all while navigating the pressures that come with representing the game during a pivotal era in the sport.
FULL COURT PRESS
AMERICAN COWBOY
PBS: ICONIC AMERICA, ep 4
RELEASE: MAY, 2023
ROLE: PRODUCER & FIELD DIRECTOR
SUMMARY: A PBS exploration of the cowboy's evolution from a low-wage, racially-diverse worker in the American West to a narrow Hollywood icon. Host, David Rubenstein asks, can such an iconic symbol radically adapt to stay relevant in 21st century America? Might a closer hewing to history bring us back to the core values associated with the icon? Cattle, family, the American West.
HOSTAGES
HBO: a four-part series
RELEASE: 2022
ROLE: STORY PRODUCER (Emmy winner : best historical documentary)
SUMMARY: On November 4, 1979, Iranian student activists stormed the U.S. embassy in Tehran, taking over 60 Americans hostage. What was planned as a 48-hour sit-in to protest American imperialism, ballooned into an international crisis and 24/7 media event that would last 444 days. With revelatory new interviews with the American hostages and Iranian hostage-takers alike, the series is a gripping chronicle of one of the most dramatic international deadlocks in American history, a deep dive into the geo-political history that led to the crisis, and an exploration of the political fallout that reverberates today.
EXCUSE ME I LOVE YOU
NETFLIX: ARIANA GRANDE CONCERT DOC
RELEASE: 2021
ROLE: FIELD PRODUCER
SUMMARY: I spent two weeks on the road as a 2-person Producer-DP team following Ariana Grande's Sweetener Tour, capturing verite moments that serve as a window into life on the road as one of the world's most recognized artists.
POINT COMFORT
NETFLIX: DIRTY MONEY, SERIES 2
RELEASE: 2020
ROLE: ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
SUMMARY: investigated & Produced an episode with Director Margaret Brown on the Taiwanese corporation, Formosa Plastics. When a PVC plant comes to a small town on the Gulf Coast of Texas, locals realize they got more than they bargained for. A few brave whistleblowers band together to sue Formosa and rid their local waterways of plastic.
PRISON FIGHTERS: FIVE ROUNDS TO FREEDOM
SHOWTIME: Feature
RELEASE: 2017
ROLE: ASSOCIATE PRODUCER / LINE PRODUCER
SUMMARY: In the Thai Department of Corrections, serious offenders are offered the chance to compete in Muay Thai boxing to win an early release. Seemingly counterintuitive, the program has successfully given inmates a second chance thanks to the discipline and spirituality the sport demands. The victims of their crimes, however, have valid and competing interests: to see justice carried out for the full sentence.
TERROR IN LITTLE SAIGON
FRONTLINE: SEASON 33
RELEASE: 2015
ROLE: ASSOCIATE PRODUCER
SUMMARY: This Emmy-nominated documentary investigates a series of unsolved murders of journalists from the Vietnamese diaspora in America. A.C. Thompson of ProPublica devotes years to finding out who assassinated these journalists and why the FBI and local police failed to solve a single case. The story goes to Thailand and Vietnam to learn about a terrorist group that authorities allowed to act with impunity for decades.
DEATH ROW STORIES
CNN: SEASON 1, D'AMBROSIO & DUNLAP EPISODES
RELEASE: 2014
ROLE: RESEARCHER & PRODUCTION ASST.
SUMMARY: Jigsaw Productions' first Television series, Death Row Stories, examines death penalty cases from around the country that raise compelling questions about whether there can be any real justice in a system that kills. As a researcher during series development and on two episodes, we found cases and discovered new levels of misconduct by police detectives, state attorney offices and in the judicial system that have since gone on to play a role in the legal battles of inmates fighting to overturn convictions.