Reels

Knowing Nick & Nate – Trailer facebook

  • Producer, Director, Camera, Editor

    • AWARD: Best Student Documentary at Illinois International Film Festival 2012.
    SUMMARY: A family’s quest to show how their two autistic boys are just like any other.

    Veterans Against War – Excerpt

  • Producer, Director, Camera, Editor

    • PUBLISHER:  The Fdl Reporter
    SUMMARY: Veterans are planning to return their war medals during demonstrations against NATO.

    Can a soda tax cure obesity?

  • Producer, Camera, Writer, Editor

    • PUBLISHER:  Medill News Service
    SUMMARY: The obesity rate in the U.S. has more than doubled over the past 30 years. One alderman thinks he may have the solution.

    Syrian-American family feels the pain of President Assad’s crackdown

  • Producer, Camera, Writer, Editor

    • PUBLISHER: Medill News Service 
    SUMMARY: Members of a Syrian-American family who lost relatives in the Syrian conflict share their grief.

    Roseland community leaders to walk against violence

  • Producer, Camera, Writer, Editor

    • PUBLISHER: Medill News Service
    SUMMARY: Outraged by a surge in gang shootings, group members are fighting for loved ones lost.

    Steve James & Alex Kotlowitz discuss their film The Interrupters

  • Editor

    • PUBLISHER: The duPont-Columbia Award
    SUMMARY: Steve James & Alex Kotlowitz share the challenges of accessing the story.

    Cicero local shop concerned about future Wal-Mart

  • Producer, Camera, Writer, Editor

    • PUBLISHER: Medill News Service
    SUMMARY: A new Wal-Mart Supercenter is on its way in Cicero. But some local businesses aren’t welcoming their new neighbor.

    Refugee Girls in Chicago

  • Producer, Director, Camera, Editor

    • SUMMARY: With the help of Girl Forward , Khina and Nisha are fighting against the odds– trying to succeed in college.

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