NARRATIVE
Kissing Ralph
Feature film.
Director/Producer/Editor
Cast: Sophie Traub, Lauren Dame, Sharon Mashihi, David Wayne Fox, Daniel Lewinstein
Official Selection:
2024 Brussels Independent Film Festival
2024 New Jersey Independent Film Festival
2024 Sydney World Film Festival
2024 Venice Film Week
2024 Obskuur Ghent Film Festival
2024 Bruges International Film Festival
2025 Cannes International Film Week
Official Nominee: Los Angeles Producer’s Night
Recipient of 2024 Tarkovski Grant
Sales by Aspect Ratio
Available for streaming at Whush and at Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Market.
Expatriate Dreamer
Short film. A Russian immigrant tries to reconcile his new freedoms in the U.S. with the lover he left behind.
Produced at the Columbia University Film MFA Program.
Co-Editor.
Director: Yihao Zheng. Cast: Alexander Kargaltsev, Dimitri Koan
Screenings:
2022 GAZE: International LGBTQ+ Film Festival, Dublin, Ireland
2022 Millennium Film Workshop, New York, USA
2021 Images Festival, Toronto, Canada
2021 NewFest: The New York LGBTQ Film Festival, New York, USA
2021 Queer Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal
2021 Korea Queer Film Festival, Seoul, South Korea
2020 Thessaloniki International Short Film Festival, Thessaloniki, Greece
Kurozuka
Short film. Adaptation of Noh play.
Producer.
Director: Jun Kuromiya
Cast: Teruaki Akai, Maya Tseruki-Holden
Severance
Short film. Two friends watch their relationship disintegrate during their final week of work at a closing warehouse.
Editor.
Director: John Robert Hammerer
Official Selection: Orlando Film Festival, HollyShorts, New York Shorts International Film Festival, San Francisco Independent Short Film Festival, Lift-Off Global Network
Winner: Best Editing, Best Direction, Best Screenplay at IndieFest
Winner: Best Dramatic Short Film, 2021 Albany Film Festival
The Apology
Short film. After encountering a relic from his past, David, a young gay man, seeks to apologize to his high school girlfriend for embarrassing her at a party. What he does not remember - or chooses not to remember - is something much worse.
Director/Producer
Cast: Mark Blane, Cassandra Borgella, Brendan Sagalow
Produced by Osmanthus Studios.
Semi-Finalist: Rhode Island International Film Festival
The Tramcar Girl
Short film.
Co-director, co-producer, co-editor. Collaboration with Gerard Zarra & Alex Tymchak.
Official Selection: Coney Island Film Festival, Manhattan Film Festival, Golden Door Film Festival, New Jersey International Film Festival.
Winner: Best Film at Monmouth International Film Festival
Understand Your Man
Director/Producer/Editor
Cast: David Wayne Fox
Group in the Catskills
Feature film about a therapeutic retreat in the woods gone haywire.
Editor.
Director: Sharon Mashihi
Director of Photography: Josephine Decker
Cast: Sophie Traub
The Stain
Director/Producer/Editor.
A man gets sick.
Cast: Daniel Lewinstein, Cammie West, David Wayne Fox
First Date (VR)
360° VR piece.
Director.
Producer: Alan J. Pierson
Featured in the Exploring Future Reality program at the NYC Media Lab.
Irises
Short film about two sisters coping with the death of their mother.
Producer.
Director: Jun Kuromiya
Official Selection: Houston International Film Festival, Tokyo Lift-Off
Burning Boy
Short film, made in conjunction with the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU.
Director/Editor
Cast: Cal Mirowitz, Elisabeth Yancey, Gus Laughlin