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I write, direct, shoot, and edit films, and over the years I’ve worked on short and feature-length fiction, documentary films, music videos, educational DVDs, advocacy videos, activist mashup media, and various projects related to social change around the world.

A passion for storytelling

It began when I was a kid growing up in the Amazon region of Brazil, writing and drawing comic books, and crafting labyrinthine adventure stories across the yard for my sisters to decipher.  In 7th grade I started helping a family friend with his wedding videography business.  When I went to the U.S. for high school in 1998, I joined a TV Productions class and realized filmmaking was a culmination of my interests, and started making films under the name Pellicle Pictures.  In Boston I pursued a BA in Visual and Media Arts at Emerson College, where I wrote, co-produced, and directed my Honors Thesis, Paradigm Shift, a 20-minute science-fiction film.

In the field

Filmmaking has brought me to many places including India, the Czech Republic, and Liberia.  While on a 2002 service trip to Costa Rica, my friend Ken Cabot and I founded Ayneh Films, and we’ve since produced more than two dozen films about friendship, humor, service, and sacrifice, including the award-winning documentary A Play for Mona. I later lived in Israel for 3 years, where I worked at the Bahá’í World Centre as an Audio-Visual Technician, contributed video segments to the Bahá’í World News Service, and was an editor on the documentary Arising to Serve.

Education, human rights, and development

I have also worked since 2003 with author Barry Lane on video lessons for teachers and students of creative writing, including Hooked on Meaning, a classic among K-12 teachers across the country.  My efforts to contribute to the discourse on human rights issues led me to various collaborations including with the grassroots media network MideastYouth.com.  Most recently, I have been working as an editor and cameraman for DDC International, a production company focusing in the fields of the environment, public health and social and economic development.