Double Talk
Role: Editor
Directed by Jessica Bernstein-Wax
A short documentary about Joan Pera, the onscreen voice in Spain of Woody Allen, Rowan Atkinson and Jerry Lewis for decades. Currently screening at festivals.
Awards: Audience Award for Best Short, Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
Jury Award for Best Short Documentary, Sonoma International Film Festival
Jason Moran: Staged
Role: Director, Producer, Editor
Produced by RoundO Films for Steinway & Sons
Short documentary film exploring Jason Moran's 2015 Venice Biennale installation entitled STAGED, including the music and artists that inspired it, as well as the Steinway Spirio that helped bring it to life. Featuring Jason Moran and the Bandwagon (Tarus Mateen and Nasheet Waits), and Roland Augustine.
Paraíso
Role: Co-Editor
Directed by Nadav Kurtz
Three immigrant window cleaners risk their lives every day rappelling down some of Chicago's tallest skyscrapers. Paraíso reveals the danger of their job and what they see on the way down. View it at the New York Times.
Jason Moran: Looks of a Lot (excerpt)
Role: Director, Editor, Producer
Produced by RoundO Films for Luhring Augustine
This documentary film follows jazz pianist/composer Jason Moran as he prepares his new multimedia project Looks of a Lot, performed at the Symphony Center in Chicago in May 2014, with Bandwagon (drummer Nasheet Waits and bassist Tarus Mateen), Chicago sculptor Theaster Gates, reedist Ken Vandermark, Katie Ernst, and the Kenwood Academy High School Jazz Band. The film offers an insider’s view of the artists’ collaboration and their process as Moran’s improvised blues compositions play off of Gates’s inventive stage sets built from salvaged materials.