Current Projects
On Fire
ON FIRE is a drama thriller about one family's harrowing journey to save themselves from a fast moving forest fire barreling towards their home in California's wooded hills. Forest fires kill almost 4,000 Americans each year. This movie tells a true-to-life story of what it looks like to escape from this unpredictable horror.
Showing as an official selection in the Mammoth Film Festival 2023.
www.mammothfilmfestival.org
The Wild Man
THE WILD MAN is a drama about a son who takes care of his father with a deteriorating mental condition where he believes he's a wild animal. The movie just had its premiere at the Austin Film Festival and will play the Dallas International Film Festival in the spring! It nominated for an audience award at AFF.
The fathers’s wild animal quirk acts as the hook for this movie that centers around a story about shifting parenting roles, mental health, aging, and being forced to grow up. The issues addressed in this movie are something almost everyone has to face in their lives - whether it be about facing our parents getting older, the battles with mental health, or learning to take care of ourselves while taking care of others but captured in the unique lens of this one father’s condition. Premiered at the Austin Film Festival in Fall 2022. https://austinfilmfestival.com/
Deadland
The Rio Grande river cuts through 1200 miles of harsh and unforgiving desert, dividing Texas from Mexico.
U.S. Border agent Angel Waters comes across what would normally be a routine illegal crossing, but it quickly devolves into his worst nightmare as he pulls a dying immigrant from the river. Barely clinging to life, the immigrant utters, “El Paso, por favor”. This dying request is one Angel cannot grant, but soon will wish he had.
In a tragic twist of fate the immigrant is killed while being held at a remote border outpost. Under the cover of darkness, Angel and his two fellow border agents bury the body deep in the desert in an unmarked grave. They swear an oath of silence, but it’s a silence the deceased migrant refuses to accept.
Days later Angel is called back to the river where he finds the SAME migrant at the river’s edge. The man calmly utters the same bone chillingly request, “El Paso, por favor”.
In a world divided, Angel will soon learn that divisions only run so deep.
Showing at the SXSW Film & TV Festival in 2023. https://www.sxsw.com/festivals/film-awards/