One Film Fest After Another, feat. photo documentation help from my amazing friends and collaborators @avrielle_lastname & @astrahle — I love when a moving image captures the way reality has felt over a period of time. This weekend, for the first time in my life, my favorite film of the year won Best Picture. Leo jumping out of the car (“just like Tom F@$#*?g Cruise”) has continued to linger in my mind as a distillation of what navigating work, career, ideas, and relationships in the face of what feels like adult-onset-ADHD spreading like COVID across the world. This is part me expressing my happiness that I film and filmmaker I look up to spearheaded the zeitgeist this past weekend and me expressing love for people who matter in my life on a bogus platform that feels more like walking through kiosks at a shopping mall than a community. Maybe you’re reading this and thinking the same thing about life and our inability to transcend these interfaces. Maybe you’ve read this post up to here. If you have, maybe we should sit down and catch up. In the meantime, “ocean waves…”
If you told me a 2-day film school project would be closing out its festival run with an award from an Oscar Qualifying film festival two years later, I’d have thunk you to be insane. Very grateful to close out “The Man in the Blue Suit”’s run with the Best Student Narrative Award from the @thomasedisonff and a screening at @hamiltonfilmfestival ‘s @funnyunderfifteen Fest. Enough of the past! My next film will be underway soon - keep your eyes peeled for announcements!
Not enough words or pictures to summarize the journey of the year. Premiered a film (and got to take it to Cannes), met and encountered idols, traveling from France to Key West, got to do some acting for the first time in a long time; wrote, read, and thought, etc., etc., ext…2025 was a year of getting acclimated to Los Angeles and swimming in the milk in order to churn it into butter. Cheers to getting in the mix of 2026.
Uncovered some rolls of film I thought I lost in my move out from Florida. Wish I could go back in time and make this the poster for “The Man in the Blue Suit.”
Still spinning (and recovering from jetleg) after bringing @private_i_film to @festivaldecannes with @americanpavilion - but the cherry on top is being back in LA knowing that “The Man in the Blue Suit” has been nominated for Best Comedic Short by @nfmla ! Listed by @moviemakermag as a “Top 50 Festival Worth the Entry Fee” I’m feeling grateful. Check out my interview with @nfmla linked in my bio!
Being able to introduce myself at @festivaldecannes with “…and I have a film here.” with my thesis film from grad school is one of biggest privileges I can fathom. When some question the purpose and value of film school, I can justify its presence in my life with it affording me to speak on the same stage as Richard Linklater and Spike Lee at the @americanpavilion and giving me the ability to see 6 world premieres - including some of my favorite living filmmakers such as Jafar Panahi and Kelly Reichardt. The team from @private_i_film assembled to premiere our film in Europe and it was success for all of us. As I move forward with this film, bringing it to more audiences, I will forever savor this opportunity. It’s time to make a feature film and I look forward to my future. Cinema is a magical, beautiful, and mysterious thing. It’s not easy to make but nothing that is a vocation should be easy. Cheers to that, my team, love, art, and to the future.
Here are the 9 short films we are screening for the Student Filmmaker Showcase. 🍿 Tuesday, May 21 at 3PM in the Pavilion conference room — anyone with a Cannes accreditation can attend so invite your friends!
First day in Cannes! I’ve dreamed of coming here for years and now it’s happening. It’s surreal and something to be consistently grateful for. If you have the means, please consider making a donation to the GoFundMe I started to support bringing my film @private_i_film here. After one day in the thick of things, I can state without any hesitation that every penny counts.
The past few weeks mark the most active I have been on social media in years. That is because my film @private_i_film was accepted into the @americanpavilion Emerging Filmmaker Showcase. To travel to @festivaldecannes has been a dream of mine for some time. To travel there WITH a film I made requires sufficient pinching to reassure me this is real. I’m incredibly blessed to be traveling to France TODAY. As you might have seen, I’ve been hosting a GoFundMe for this trip. As you can imagine, my AirBnB, my tuxedo, and extraneous travel expenses add up. Not to mention navigating the financial pluses that tourism for the festival creates. If you have $5 free to contribute, please consider donating to this campaign! Stepping on to the airplane today marks an exciting turn in my career and you would be participating with an objective impact!
Excited, honored, and thrilled that @private_i_film has been accepted into the @americanpavilion ‘s Emerging Filmmaker Showcase at the Cannes Film Festival! “Private i” was a dream to make, and I had dreams about where I wanted it to screen. Taking this to the American Pavilion at Cannes in a double-dream come true. I am over the moon. I love making movies so much!
