Building the table, not just a seat at it.
Education, advocacy, and community-building alongside the filmmaking.
Indie Film Collective
Grown into a 16,000+ member creative community, the Collective connects actors, artists, and filmmakers around a shared belief: independent filmmaking should be collaborative and accessible, not gatekept.
First Frame Films + Media
A Brooklyn-based production and design company producing narrative film, documentary, educational content, and community-driven media — built with scalable systems and a deliberately human approach to set culture.
Indie Film Lab
An education and community platform — podcasts, workshops, templates, and tutorials — built on three ideas: shoot with what you’ve got, lead with kindness, and every frame counts.
Teaching
Instructor for COM-109, Intro to Film Study — bringing the same psychology-informed, craft-first approach from set into the classroom.
Kind Media
Creativity powered by kindness: storytelling for organizations doing good in the world.
Low budget should never mean low dignity.
Sweat Equity Agreement
A framework for fair, transparent equity and deferred-pay arrangements on independent productions.
Actor’s Bill of Rights
On-set protections centering actor dignity, safety, and consent.