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