Documentary

Documentary film is a tried and true medium to explore timely topics and provoke challenging dialogue. I believe this process is most effective when it conjures a visceral emotional container to transport the viewer into another person’s life. By asking an audience to live a moment in somebody else’s shoes, we can thaw cultural and personal barriers and hopefully create ease around very difficult conversations.

My award-winning feature-length doc, America Recycled, was co-directed by me and my brother, Tim. It chronicles our bicycle journey through unlikely and widely unseen corners of the American South.

I made a series of videos for the SF Chronicle as part of a memorial for Lawrence Ferlinghetti, for which we won a California Journalism Award.