EDUCATION
2008 University of California, San Diego (MFA in Film and Video)
2002 Hampshire College (BFA in Film and Video)
FILMOGRAPHY
2027 This Place Before, 4k narrative proof of concept based on original feature script (in development) - Part of The Birthing Series
2025 I’ll Meet You on the Other Side, 4k experimental (in production) - Part of The Birthing Series
2020 Light on a Path, Follow, 4k narrative, 15-min. - Part of The Birthing Series
2019 Pa’lante, HD docuseries, 25-min.
2016 Camp Trans, HD short documentary, 6-minutes (guest director for We've Been Around webseries, creator - Rhys Ernst)
2015 Urban Arts Partnership Shorts, HD narrative & documentary shorts, various lengths
2012 Wrest (film), super-8 experimental series, 13-min.
2010 Wrest (performance), super-8 film installation & 45-min. live performance
2008 Mainstay, HD narrative featurette, 50-min.
2007 Loveship, HD narrative, 4-min.
2006 Well Dressed, super-8 film experimental documentary, 11-min.
2005 The Faces of Learning, digital video documentary 50-min.
2002 Through the Skin, digital video & 16mm experimental documentary, 18-min.
2001 Lithium, 16mm film installation
2001 Gestures, 16mm experimental film, 11-min.
2000 Grandma, 16mm experimental film, 5-min.
1999 Bathroom Stories, digital video experimental documentary, 5-min.
PRODUCTION CREDITS
WRITING DEPARTMENT
2021 ON EARTH WE’RE BRIEFLY GORGEOUS (Script Consultant), writer Ocean Vuong, A24 Films
PRODUCTION DEPARTMENT
2019 TAPESTRY HEALTH (Producer, Consultant), promotional video
2016 WE’VE BEEN AROUND (Series Consultant), dir. Rhys Ernst, docuseries, Focus Features
2013 PRIVATE LIFE (2nd AD), dir. Greg Williamson, USC narrative short
2012 VIKI (2nd AD), dir. Rhys Ernst, AFI narrative short
ART DEPARTMENT
2013 THE OTHER SISTER (Prop Master), dir. Nicolas Bouler, AFI narrative short
2012 DISAPPEAR HERE (Set Dresser), dir. Matthew Mishory, narrative short
2012 WE ARE ANIMALS (Art PA), dir. Dominic Haxton, narrative short
DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY
2007 THE DESERT, dir. Megan Palima, 16mm film short
2005 THE FACES OF LEARNING, dir. Martha bodine, documentary video featurette
2004 HAMIRPUR, dir. Bif Soper, documentary video feature
2001 WAIT FOR ME, dir. Sara Kim, narrative video short
2000 LOLA VS. THE SODA MACHINE, dir. Lucy Lessor, narrative video short
EDITOR
2012 BLACKBOX TV, dir. Tony Valenzuela, 3-screen video installation
2011 UNDOCUMENTED AND UNAFRAID, prod. Anna Strout, documentary short
2010 TYPECAST, prod. Anna Strout, documentary short
2009 GHETTO TALKS, prod. Anna Strout, documentary short
2005 THE FACES OF LEARNING, dir. Martha bodine, documentary featurette
ACTOR
2016 WE’VE BEEN AROUND – LOU SULLIVAN, (voice over), dir. Rhys Ernst, docuseries, Focus Features
2015 TRANSPARENT, dir. Jill Soloway, TV series, Amazon Studios
2014 SAY U WILL, (lead talent), dir. Chris Cruse, narrative short
2013 PRIVATE LIFE, dir. Greg Williamson, USC narrative short
2001 THE BROWN METER, dir. Lucia Leandro Gimeno, narrative short
SELECT FILM SCREENINGS & EXHIBITIONS
LIGHT ON A PATH, FOLLOW
2024 Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA
2023 After Sex on Screen, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
2023 Transformed: Amplifying trans stories, representation and filmmakers, Amherst Cinema, MA
2023 Make Believe Seattle: A Genre Film Festival, WA
2023 Small Trans Film Club, Dublin, Ireland
2022 Cinema Queer International Film Festival, Stockholm, Sweden
2022 Flickfair, On Demand Film Festival
2021 ‘Nuevo Mundo' The Film Club: Latinoamerica, Bogotá, Colombia
2021 Maryland Film Festival, Baltimore, MD
2021 Tacoma Film Festival, WA
2021 Rainbow Reels Queer and Trans Film Festival, Ontario, Canada
2021 Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival, HI
2021 qFlix Philadelphia LGBTQ Film Festival, PA
2021 Philadelphia Latino Film Festival, PA
2021 San Diego Latino Film Festival, CA
2021 Ciné Athens HEAR series, GA
2021 San Diego Latino Film Festival, CA
2021 Deep Focus Film Festivals, Brooklyn, NY (Honorable Mention)
2020 Edinburgh International Film Festival, Scotland
2020 San Francisco Latino Film Festival, CA
2020 Fringe Queer Film & Arts Festival, London, England
2020 CineQ Film Festival, Birmingham, England
2020 San Francisco Transgender Film Festival, CA
2020 Toronto Independent Film Festival, ON, Canada
2020 Reel Affirmations, Washington DC LGBTQ Film Festival
2020 Festival de Cine Latino Americano, Fort Worth, TX
2020 Seattle Latino Film Festival
2020 Boston International Latino Film Festival
2020 University Film Video Association (UFVA) Conference
2020 Translations, Seattle’s Transgender Film Festival (in partnership with Northwest Film Forum)
2020 Wicked Queer, Boston LGBT Film Festival (Winner of Best in Show: Short Films)
2020 Louisiana LGBT+ Film Festival, New Orleans
2020 Fresno Reel Pride, LGBTQ Film Festival, CA
CAMP TRANS
2021 SEOUL International Women’s Film Festival, South Korea
2016 Newfest, New York, NY
2016 Frameline Film Festival, San Francisco, CA
2016 Outfest, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Mezipatra Queer Film Festival, Czech Republic
WREST
2012 Galapagos Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY
2010 The University Settlement’s Performance Project, New York, NY
MAINSTAY
2010 North Carolina Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Durham, NC
2010 Seattle Transgender Film Festival, WA
2010 Participant Inc. Gallery, New York, NY
2009 The Netherlands Transgender Film Festival, Amsterdam
2009 Threat Level: Experimental Film/Video Festival, Chicago, IL
WELL DRESSED
2024 Gravitational Lensing: Feminist Film Dialogues, Shapeshifters Cinema, Oakland, CA
2021 Sensate Cinema: Practices for Slow Encounters: A Festival for Camera & Body, UMBC, Baltimore, MD
2017 A Good Night’s Sleep Screening Series, Northampton, MA
2012 Funen Art Academy in Copenhagen, Denmark
2012 Highways Performance Space, Los Angeles, CA
2012 Museum of the Moving Image, Queens, NY
2012 University of Chicago, IL
2010 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
2009 London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival, England
2009 Montreal Queer Film Festival, Canada
2009 Boston LGBT Film Festival, Cambridge, MA
2009 Zeitgeist Multi-disciplinary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2009 Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA
2008 Threat Level: Experimental Film/Video Festival, Chicago, IL
2008 Echo Park Film Theatre, Los Angeles, CA
2006 San Diego International Women’s Film Festival, CA (winner of Best of San Diego Award)
2006 Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
THROUGH THE SKIN
2007 Anubhuti - A Film Festival on Madness and Beyond, Pune, India
2007 DOKMA Documentary Film Festival, Maribor, Slovenia
2007 Multiforo ICBC (Cultural Institution of Baja California), Tijuana, Mexico
2006 Dashanzi Arts Festival, Beijing, China
2006 New Jersey Library Association Conference, Documenting Their Lives: LGBTIQ Identities
2005 Trans Awareness Film Festival, Edmonton, Canada
2004 Ladyfest, New York, NY
2004 Queer Zagreb Film Festival, Croatia
2004 Mary Riepma Ross Media Arts Center, Lincoln, NE
2004 University of Madison, WI
2003 Seattle Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, WA
2003 European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
2003 Maine International Film Festival, Waterville, ME
2003 Women in the Director's Chair, Chicago, IL
2003 Women in Cinema, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2003 Turin International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, Italy
2003 Vancouver Underground Film Festival, Canada
2003 Outfest: The Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, CA
2003 Carolina Theater, Charlotte, NC
2003 Estrofest, Atlanta, GA
2002 Paris International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, France
2002 MIX Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, New York, NY
2002 Five College Film Festival, Amherst, MA (winner of Best Experimental Video Award)
GRANDMA
2013 LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), CA
BATHROOM STORIES
2000 Access Orbit, Paper Tiger Television, New York, NY
PERMANENT ACQUISITIONS
LIGHT ON A PATH, FOLLOW
Amherst College, MA
University of Colorado, Boulder, CO
University of Washington, Seattle
George Mason University, VA
Smith College, MA
WELL DRESSED
Amherst College, Amherst, MA
University of Richmond, VA
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
Duke University, Durham, NC
Tufts University, Boston, MA
Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR
University of Victoria, Canada
Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Audiovisual Department, Paris
Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Hong Kong Baptist University, China
Davidson College, Davidson, NC
Decker Library, Baltimore, MD
California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Action Library Media, Long Beach, CA
THROUGH THE SKIN
Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Penn State University, PA
Emory University, Atlanta, GA
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Grossmont College, El Cajon, CA
TTIQ Alliance, Alberta, Canada
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, IL
Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Lafayette College, Easton, PA
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
University of Winnipeg, Canada
University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, IA
Bowdoin College, Brunswick, ME
Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
GRANTS, AWARDS & RECOGNITION
2023 Faculty Research Grant Award, Mount Holyoke College
2022 Target of Excellence Hire, Mt. Holyoke College
2021 Faculty Research Grant Award, Mount Holyoke College
2021 Honorable Mention (For Light on a Path, Follow), Deep Focus Film Festivals, Brooklyn, NY
2020 Best in Show: Short Films (for Light on a Path, Follow), Wicked Queer Boston LGBT Film Festival
2017 Five College Associate, Amherst, MA
2016 GLAAD Media Award (We’ve Been Around - Camp Trans) Los Angeles, CA
2010 Brooklyn Arts Council Re-grant (Wrest), Brooklyn, NY
2009 Special Projects Grant, Princess Grace Foundation – USA (Wrest) New York, NY
2008 Russell Grant (Mainstay), University of California, San Diego, Department of Visual Arts
2007 Graduate Film Award (Mainstay), Princess Grace Foundation - USA, New York, NY
2007 Humanities Grant: Dissertation Project, University of California, San Diego, Center for the Humanities
2007 Best of San Diego Award (Well Dressed), San Diego Women’s International Film Festival
2006 Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, University of California, San Diego, Department of Visual Arts
2002 Best Experimental Video Award (Through the Skin), Five College Film Festival, Amherst, MA
2002 The Threshold Grant (Through the Skin), Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
1998 Marblehead Festival of the Arts Grant, Marblehead, MA
VISITING ARTIST LECTURES & PANELS
2023 Guest Filmmaker, Amherst Cinema (as part of Transformed Series)
2023 Guest Speaker, Faculty Friday, Mount Holyoke College
2021 Guest Speaker/Filmmaker, Semester Cinema, Nantucket, MA
2020 University Film Video Association (UFVA) Conference
2020 Guest Speaker/Filmmaker – Trans*Revolutions Virtual Symposium, Wesleyan University
2019 Guest Speaker/Filmmaker – Mt. Holyoke College, Trans Day of Remembrance
2019 Guest Speaker/Filmmaker – Amherst College, Art and the History of Art, Film Studies
2017 Visiting Filmmaker – Holyoke Community College, Electronic Media Program, Holyoke, MA
2017 Panelist – C.O.L.A. (City of Los Angeles), Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
2013 Visiting Filmmaker - University of California, Riverside, Department of Media and Culture Studies
2010 Panelist - The University Settlement’s Performance Project, New York, NY
2009 Panelist - Media for Change, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
2007 Guest Lecturer - Dialogues in Sexuality Studies, University of California, San Diego
2003 Visiting Filmmaker - Smith College, Department of Cinema Studies, Northampton, MA
2003 Keynote Speaker - Maine Youth Summit, Bates College, Lewiston, ME
2002 Visiting Filmmaker - Hampshire College, Department of Film and Video, Amherst, MA
UNIVERSITY LEVEL TEACHING EXPERIENCE
July 2022 – Current Assistant Professor – Mount Holyoke College, Film Media Theater
Jan. 2020 – June 2022 Visiting Lecturer – Mount Holyoke College, Film Media Theater
Sept. 2020 – May 2021 Visiting Lecturer – Amherst College, Film and Media Studies
Jan. 2018 – May 2020 Adjunct Professor – Holyoke Community College, Electronic Media Studies
Sept. 2019 – Dec. 2019 Embedded Practitioner – Mount Holyoke College, Film Studies
Jan. 2019 – Dec. 2019 Visiting Lecturer – University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Film and Communications
Sept. 2018 – May 2019 Visiting Lecturer – Smith College, Film and Media Studies
Sept. 2017 – Dec. 2018 Visiting Lecturer – Amherst College, Film and Media Studies
July 2007 – Aug. 2007 Instructor – University of California, San Diego Extensions
Oct. 2005 – June 2007 Lead Teaching Assistant – University of California, San Diego, Dept. of Visual Arts
PARTIAL DISTRIBUTION
Women Make Movies, New York, NY, www.wmm.com (Through the Skin)
Video Data Bank, Chicago, IL, www.vdb.org (Well Dressed)