near-future projects

*big projects in-development, seeking funding, collaborators, co-conspirators…

Short Documentary: Riding Six White Horses

Blended archival footage of three generations of women trying to make a documentary of their lives, emanating from and returning to the Appalachian Mountains, getting their story straight—together.

In 2020, just as my mama was dying, she asked me to “finish her documentary,” that she had started to film in the late-’70s. The film remained top of mind even after fifty years of bad storage, the 16mm film she had lugged around with her through marriages, divorces, deaths, rebirths, motherhood, a professional life, artistic struggle and cancer.

I couldn’t “finish” the documentary with the surviving footage, but in recent years, I have worked with documentary filmmaker, Kate Colenbrander, to create something new. After scanning all the image and audio footage that we possibly could, and with a lot of help from the filmmaking community here in Toronto, we have begun to edit Riding Six White Horses, a film that celebrates the ephemeral nature of archival, analog media and how a re-presentation of my mother’s deteriorating footage comes to emphasize the at-once immediate and fleeting nature of storytelling, of passed-down memories and of art, itself, through time. This film is going to be beautiful.

Limited Television Miniseries: Jackal (working title, obviously)

JACKAL is a six-hour political thriller and family drama.

Set in the Washington, DC suburbs in 1972 and inspired by lived experiences of a revolutionary father-son duo and their romantic counterparts, JACKAL explores the phenomenon of the 1970s revolutionary American spirit, its grand ambitions, and its dramatic intersection with domestic life.

American frustration at the tail end of the Vietnam war; the cost of forbidden love between seemingly-ordinary (yet exceptional) women and the men they love who are poisoned by revolutionary fervor; a gritty bank heist gone awry, resulting in violence; a manhunt spanning the whole of the Eastern Seaboard; a plane hijacking to Cuba and the resulting fallout for the sympathetic women left behind in the wake of an attempted revolution: this is JACKAL, an exploration into the psychic and emotional links between “then” and “now.”

Rooted in the past but reminiscent of the anxieties and the social spectacle captivating the present, JACKAL is a period drama for our modern political moment. When balance and order feel as though they are teetering on the edge, JACKAL reminds the audience of a wild American history full of action, love, and the necessity of political tension.

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