Placekeepers

As the only road leading to the Caucasus mountain region of Tusheti, Georgia, closes for 7 months of winter, a handful of holdouts remain.

directer + producer

2025

SCREENINGS
Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, Montana — Best Short Nominee
In the Palace Short Film Festival, Bulgaria — Best Student Film
Mountainfilm Festival, Colorado — Honorable Mention
Torello Mountain Festival, Spain
Trento Film Festival, Italy
Indy Shorts Film Festival, Indiana
OKO Interntional Ethnographic Film Festival, Ukraine
Kutaisi International Short Film Festival, Georgia — Best Director

Heaven on Earth

A naive aspiring actor rents a shed on a fading ex-commune in Los Angeles and becomes friends with its aging matriarch, a former hippie, who is slowly becoming radicalized by far-right conspiracy propaganda in 2016.

directer + producer + cinematographer + editor

2022

SCREENINGS
LA Shorts International Film Festival, California
deadCenter Film Festival, Oklahoma
Santa Fe International Film Festival, New Mexico
American Documentary and Animation Film Festival, California
Nevada City Film Festival, California
Annapolis Film Festival, Maryland

ONLINE PLATFORM
Directors Notes