VIDEOGRAPHY
Graham v. Florida (in production)
Sentenced to life in prison as a child, Terrence Graham took his fight for freedom all the way to the Supreme Court. After twenty-one years behind bars, he is finally getting out - but now Terrence has to confront a system designed to see that he goes back in.
MOTHER (2023)
In San Francisco, a city known for its queer community and bustling gay nightlife, there hasn't been a lesbian bar for almost a decade. Driven by nostalgia for a time when queer women had spaces, Malia Spanyol, a self-identified dyke sets out to build one for the next generation of women and femmes.
8 Days at Ware (2022)
Back-to-back suicides at a juvenile detention center in rural Louisiana raise troubling questions about the state’s justice system and exposes a legacy of abuse and neglect. Now streaming on PBS.
Knocking Down the Fences (2019)
This is the story of a superstar athlete and why the sports industry hasn't put her on your radar. AJ Andrews is the first woman to win a Rawlings Gold Glove, an award given to the best fielders in baseball for decades. But winning the Gold Glove did not change the fact that Andrews earns less than $15k a year in an industry more willing to pay female athletes to model than to play their sport. Winner of the PBS Reel South Award, the best student documentary at the 2019 Nashville Film Festival, audience award at SF Indie Fest, Best Documentary at the Humboldt Film Festival and runner up for the 2019 Anchorage Film Festival Audience Choice Award. Now streaming on PBS.
New Generation Queens: a Zanzibar soccer story (2015)
An award-winning documentary about Zanzibar's women's soccer team. New Generation Queens premiered at the Manhattan Film Festival where it won best International Documentary. The film went on to win several awards, including Best Picture at the Global Cinema Film Festival, and Best Documentary and Best Social Impact film at FilmShift. New Generation Queens is available on Vimeo on Demand. Click on the photograph to watch the trailer.
