Video Production & Live Media

Directed from a provided script and built from the ground up: 3D-previsualized storyboards, an overhead blocking diagram, and a four-person crew run on a zero-dollar budget.

A couple’s noir roleplay collides with one spectacularly ill-timed John Dillinger reference — and the real intimacy arrives only after the fantasy falls apart.

Producer and Festivals Coordinator on a fourteen-minute political satire, written and directed by Anjali Vaid Gupta — a studio shoot with a full cast of principals and extras, managed end to end.

The whole run is documented in a 314-page production binder — every document from first script revision to festival submission, tracked and filed. Directing is vision. Producing is making sure the vision arrives on time with its paperwork signed.

An intimate documentary on Detroit’s Black kink and leather community, told through three people who have lived it: an elder and protector, a visual archivist, and a titleholder. The film asks what happens when the language of power exchange collides with American racial history — and how Black kinksters built their own safety when existing spaces would not offer it.

I originated the project after noticing how rarely Black participants appear in how this culture gets documented. I sourced the subjects, conducted the interviews, designed the graphics package, and edited the film. Part archive, part testimony, part celebration.

Anchored by ONYX Great Lakes and the programming of LGBT Detroit.

An eighteen-minute tribute marking Rev. Dr. Jim Holley’s fifty years leading Historic Little Rock Baptist Church, screened at his retirement celebration. Congregants and colleagues who had known him for decades sat for interviews about what those years meant.

I proposed the piece, shot every interview, designed the set graphics and lower thirds, and edited the film to deliver ahead of the retirement date. Elders in the ministry sourced the voices and secured the location; I brought the equipment, the plan, and the finish.

Every guest on LGBT Detroit Live gets a custom animated intro — not a generic bumper with a name swapped in, but a built piece using their photo and framing, produced fresh for each episode. It is the first thing the audience sees, and it sets whether the show reads as a professional broadcast or a video call.

Each intro then works twice: it becomes the lead-in for the episode’s recap Short, carrying the same design language into the social edit — produced on a weekly clock across dozens of guests, from community figures to candidates for federal office.

A static circular logo, translated to motion: the outer ring rotates around the fixed center mark, over a gold shimmer field built to give the frame depth on a large screen. Cut as a seamless loop — the final frame matches the first, so the ring completes its circle endlessly with no visible restart.

Built to run ambient through the retirement banquet, the same evening the fifty-year tribute film screened. Two deliverables, one room.

A commissioned video invitation for a golden anniversary. The clients arrived with a printed invitation suite and an outline of what they wanted to say; I wrote the script from it, shot the couple, and digitized their existing paper logo into a shimmering gold mark built as an endless loop for the celebration itself.

The commission came by referral: Joseph Welch sang on the Christmas program above, saw the work, and hired me for their anniversary.