Connected by Water

Associate Producer

Associate producer under director Scott Soens for Patagonia film “Connected by Water: The Story of the Big-Wave Surfing Safety Movement.” Assistance with story consultation, interviews, and footage licensing.

After Sion Milosky died at Mavericks in 2011, the big wave surfing community was stunned. Later that year, Kohl Christensen and Danilo Couto got a group of surfers together on the North Shore, Oahu, and held a CPR course. It was the first unofficial Big Wave Risk Assessment Group meeting which over the next decade would evolve into a worldwide, safety training program taught by some of the best-trained big wave surfers in the world.

BWRAG Surf Responder 8-Part Online Course

Co-Producer, Co-Director

Part of a small team responsible for fundraising, writing, production and direction of an extensive eight-episode online course with 10 instructors, shot in California and Hawaii.

Finding Away

Producer, Writer

Hawaii is in the center of the world's largest gyre, and Kimi Werner has swum through trash circulating around her. A "smog of microplastics" is how she describes the pollution - thousands of pounds of bits of disposable items that wash up on the beaches of her home archipelago every day.

Island Earth

Associate Producer

Research producer under director Cyrus Sutton. Responsible for research on GMOs, pesticides, and agricultural policy.

Island Earth is a rich tale of a young indigenous scientist's struggle for truth between science and tradition as he enters an industry that many feel is threatening his homeland. His complex journey through the corn fields of GMO companies to the loi patches of traditional Hawaiian elders reveals modern truths and ancient values that can save our future.