Fractured States
Director Statement
I made Fractured States in the shadow of a booming cannabis industry, following three families confronting the brutal cost of a system now profiting from the same plant that sent them to prison.
The film became my attempt to understand what justice looks like when an industry rises from the source of so much punishment and pain. What happens when the laws change, the money moves in, and the people who paid the highest price are still fighting to come home, rebuild, and be seen?
Road To Reconcile
Director Statement
When I began filming Road To Reconcile, I was drawn to the strange and powerful contradiction of U.S. veterans returning to Vietnam — not as soldiers, but as peace activists, neighbors, and partners in repair.
Set along what the locals call, “the road of no joy” I saw what repair looks like when history is still underfoot. I learned that sometimes healing begins where so much was lost, and that a former enemy can become the person standing beside you.
Echoes of Vietnam
Director Statement
For me, Echoes of Vietnam began with a simple but powerful question: what kind of strength is built inside people who have already survived the loss of home?
From the Fall of Saigon to the floodwaters of New Orleans, this film became my attempt to understand how survival can become inheritance — how displacement becomes memory, how memory becomes strength, and how a community finds its way back after everything is taken.
