I turned 30 in December. I'm living in Wisconsin with my wife and two children. I love my family - even the extended ones. We all just traveled to Arizona together for a week. It was my first time there. I couldn't believe how beautiful and relentless the desert was. Sprained my ankle on the first day.
Despite my wife and me working honest-to-God corporate jobs and making sure our infant and toddler survive, I managed to shoot an independent feature film last year. I wrote, produced, and directed it. It's called Creature Fear and we're hoping to release this year. (Not using this as solicitation, just proud of what the gang accomplished).
Intangibles: not afraid to cry tears of joy or despair; love people who do what they say they're going to or communicate in advance if it ain't gonna happen (it's my biggest personal pain when I don't do this myself); my fixations don't define me; if you have your health, you have everything.
Picture taken after the "martini" shot on the movie.
May 5, 2025
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Directed by first short film this spring and I’m in the process of editing it now. Or rather working with my talented friend and editor to bring the screenplay I wrote to life. It’s been a summer of moving through it, like intentionally not getting bogged down by things that make me want to give up.
Everyone on my team and other filmmakers I chat with say that the most important thing is to ultimately release this film into the world because that’s the only way you’ll really learn and improve but, of course, that’s absolutely terrifying.
So I ride my bike and do some yoga and hang with my friends and try to just move through that fear which I suppose is how I’ve been with most of my emotional life this summer: receiving an emotion, letting it crash through me, and allowing it to recede back into the ocean of it all. It’s been a really good summer. All in all, I’m super proud to even be here.
Aug 13, 2024
I directed my first short film that took three years to write and I feel like me again
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ever since 11th grade i have wanted to make films
i find them beautiful, artistic, complicated and horrifying all at once
i have always had a problem with self doubt and underestimating my abilities but any time i do something related to film i do it with love, fierce devotion and hard work and it still amazes me that the work i do comes out great every time
i know that i could never ever do anything else with my life
May 7, 2024
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So many friends made through the shared trials and tribulations of child rearing
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