Structural Flaws
ACLU of Michigan | 2015 | Photoessay and Media Slideshow Photojournalist In 2015, the ACLU of Michigan hired me as a journalist and documentary photographer to investigate the ways capital expenditure costs overburden Michigan school districts. During the course of the project, I visited seven districts (five among the lowest taxable value per pupil, and […]
Take tha House Back
Detroit Recordings | 2015 | Music Video Music video for Will See’s hip-hop song about Detroiters fighting foreclosures and evictions Screenings: Cucalorus Film Festival, 2017 Allied Media Conference, 2016 Awards and Honors: Best Hip Hop Video, American Music Video Festival, 2017
Midwest Environmental Justice Network
2016 | Multiple Productions Director + Creative Producer + D.P. + Editor I worked in collaboration with hip-hop producer Bryce Detroit and photographer Shanna Merola, to produce short documentaries in collaboration with environmental justice organizations across the midwest. We were asked to prototype a media-team system for a regional coalition of environmental justice organizations, work […]
Sugar Law Center
Maurice & Jane Sugar Law Center | 2017 | 11 min Director + D.P. + Editor The Sugar Law Center (founded by the National Lawyers Guild) provides free legal support for workers who face issues such as wage theft, mass layoffs and job discrimination. This documentary highlights client stories and landmark cases throughout the center’s […]
Let there Be Light
Soulardarity | 2016 | web-based storytelling project Director + Creative Producer + D.P. + Editor + Impact Strategist In 2012, the streetlights in Highland Park, Michigan were repossessed by the investor-owned utility monopoly, DTE Energy. In the aftermath, the community organized for renewable energy solutions. This video series and interactive website was designed in collaboration with Soulardarity, […]
Video Journalism
AJ+ | 2017 | 2 minutes Sabria and George Pasha are Iraqi Christian immigrants who voted for Donald Trump. They received citizenship, but their eldest son, Tony Hormez, remained a green card holder. At age 16, Tony shot a gun into the air to celebrate the 4th of July, and served a short jail sentence […]
Ryter Cooperative Industries
Ryter Cooperative Industries | 2017 | 3 minutes Director + Cinematographer + Editor Ryter Cooperative Industries, a Detroit-based solar panel manufacturer, commissioned me to tell the story of their work to promote their new solar alley light system.
Rise Together Detroit
Detroit People’s Platform | 2017 | multiple productions Director + Creative Producer + D.P. + Editor In partnership with the Detroit People’s Platform, the Sugar Law Center, and Rise Together Detroit, I produced a series of campaign videos for Proposal A, which would allow Detroit communities to enter into legally binding community benefits agreements when […]
DANGEROUS TIMES, REBELLIOUS RESPONSES
2017 Consulting Producer + D.P. + Editor A short experimental film on the 1980s Central American refugee sanctuary movement, using archival material and present-day interviews and verite. Directed by Alicia Diaz and Consuela Lopez Support: Detroit Narrative Agency Commissioned Project Knight Arts Challenge
Rocked a Room
2019 Director + Cinematographer + Editor In Rocked a Room, Bryce Detroit plays an up-and-coming art world darling. At a major opening of his Kehindi Wiley-inspired self-portraits, Bryce discovers the tradeoffs to participating in a “new” art world created by the “old” status-quo. Will Bryce pay a price for striving for that life? Film Festivals: […]