Director || Fragments of Paradise, a film about avant-garde poet/filmmaker, Jonas Mekas, is my third documentary feature and first independently financed film. In 2016, I co-directed my first film, Ordinary People, with Natalie Johns & Get Lifted Film Co., and in 2019, directed the film adaptation of Jon Meacham’s, The Soul of America, for Kunhardt Films and HBO.

If it’s not uplifting, if it doesn’t pierce the limitations of habitual thinking and illuminate our better selves, I’m not sure what the point is…