Producer
Lake Clark National Park
North Shore Productions, 2023
Currently in the production phase, a one-hour broadcast film about Lake Clark National Park in Alaska along with a cut-down twenty-minute interpretive film.
Producer
“Amache”
North Shore Productions, 2023
Currently in the production phase, Amache is a 26-minute-long film that examines the incarceration of Japanese Americans sent to a concentration camp in Colorado in order to tell a universal story about unjust incarceration and the loss of civil rights. This project also includes 3 short documentaries with an accompanying educational program crafted by professional curriculum writers, giving schools and teachers the resources necessary to bring the incarceration story into the classroom.
Learn more about the Amache incarceration camp: https://www.nps.gov/places/granada-relocation-center.htm
Associate Producer, Archival Researcher, & Assistant Editor
“Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp”
North Shore Productions, 2022
Betrayed: Surviving an American Concentration Camp tells the story of a group of Americans and their mass incarceration by the U.S. government, purely on the basis of race. In the compelling voices of survivors of the camp, Betrayed explores the unconstitutional suspension of the civil rights of Japanese Americans in the Pacific Northwest and the intergenerational impact of the incarceration on their community. The film explores the relevance of this story today, as we see camp survivors stepping up as modern-day activists to fight the present-day incarceration of children and families. In combination with the one-hour film, this project also includes an educational program, giving schools and teachers the resources necessary to bring the incarceration story into the classroom, with focused short films and insightful study guides.
The film was distributed by American Public Television and aired on PBS stations nationwide.
Website: www.betrayedfilm.com
Link to the film: www.pbs.org/video/betrayed-survivng-an-american-concentration-camp-1J4Nna/
Associate Producer, Archival Researcher, & Assistant Editor
Ice Age Fossils State Park Theater Film
North Shore Productions, 2021
A 10-minute film that highlights the archaeological significance and discoveries north of Las Vegas. The film plays in the visitor center at the Ice Age Fossils State Park.
Associate Producer
“The Fire Within - Mount St. Helens”
North Shore Productions, 2021
An 8-minute theater film that focuses on the human relationship with Mt. St. Helens over time, underscoring that the mountain has been a major force of natural and cultural transformation in this region for millennia. The film plays at the Mount St. Helens Visitor Center.
Associate Producer & Archival Researcher
Minidoka National Historic Site
North Shore Productions, 2021
Twenty-six short archival-based films about the history of the Minidoka incarceration camp and the effects of Japanese American incarceration during WWII. The interpretive films are installed at the Minidoka National Historic Site visitor center.
Associate Producer
“Orcas – Our Shared Future”
North Shore Productions, 2020
A series of ten films for the Royal BC Museum’s exhibit that explored the social, cultural, and environmental landscapes of this threatened apex species.
Associate Producer, Archival Researcher, & Editor
Wanuskewin
North Shore Productions, 2020
All new linear media exhibits for the new visitor center at Wanuskewin Heritage Park, including a 360-degree storytelling theater, a 270-degree projection around the entire exhibit, and numerous documentary films about Indigenous languages and culture.
Archival Researcher
“Minidoka: An American Concentration Camp”
North Shore Productions, 2019
A 30-minute film about the Japanese American incarceration experience during World War II at Minidoka, Idaho.
Awards: 2020 Silver Telly
Press: Willamette Week
Archival Researcher
“Bearing the Unbearable”
North Shore Productions, 2019
A 25-minute film about the Japanese American incarceration experience during World War II, with a focus on the community of Bainbridge Island, Washington.
Assistant Editor
Oregon Coast Aquarium
North Shore Productions, 2019
Oregon Coast Aquarium’s $18.2 million capital campaign fundraising video.
View video here: https://youtu.be/H40JXk4CkI0
Associate Producer & Archival Researcher
“Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous”
American Masters / Oregon Public Broadcasting, 2019
American Masters — Rothko: Pictures Must Be Miraculous is a production of Oregon Public Broadcasting in association with THIRTEEN’s American Masters for WNET. One of the most influential artists of the 20th century, Mark Rothko’s signature style helped define Abstract Expressionism, the movement that shifted the center of the art world from Paris to New York. The documentary is an intimate portrait of the celebrated painter whose luminous canvasses now set records at international auctions. Interviews with Rothko’s children, Kate and Christopher, as well as leading curators, art historians and conservators present a comprehensive look at the artist’s life and career, complemented by original scenes with Alfred Molina in the role of Rothko. Molina performs segments from Rothko’s diaries, and the documentary features clips from the six-time Tony-winning play Red.
Awards: Nominated for “Outstanding Documentary or Nonfiction Series” at the 72nd Emmy® Awards in 2020.
Press: Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Houston Chronicle
Production Coordinator & Researcher
“Abandoned OregoN”
Oregon Public Broadcasting / Oregon Field Guide, 2019
An episode of “Oregon Field Guide” that reveals the stories behind abandoned Oregon’s relic homesteads.
View episode here: https://www.pbs.org/video/season-30-episode-6-jsowao/
Award: Best Human Interest - Program Feature/Segment at the 56th Annual Northwest Regional Emmy Awards in 2019.
Assistant Editor
“Holocaust Museum Houston”
North Shore Productions, 2018
Acted as assistant editor for 6 documentary shorts for the Holocaust Museum Houston, a part of the $34 million expansion of the museum. The films highlight refugees, volunteers, and local activists.
Press: Forbes, Houston Press
Archival Researcher
“Oregon Experience”
North Shore Productions, 2018
Five documentary shorts about the history of Oregon for the updated $4 million, permanent exhibit at the Oregon Historical Society.
View excerpts here: https://www.northshorepro.com/projects#/ohs
Press: Portland Tribune, Oregon Live, CBS KOIN
Video Fellow
Bridgeliner / Whereby.US, 2018
Produced short, shareable documentary videos for social media platforms.
Samples: How Portland Became the Rose City, Check out the Eli Ball, a learning tool for kids with autism, & 'The Big One' is Coming to Portland
Press: KGW Channel 8
Associate Producer
“Rothko: Life Beyond the abstract”
Oregon Public Broadcasting / Oregon Art Beat, 2018
Mark Rothko, one of America's most celebrated post-war painters, has deep roots in Oregon. Oregon Art Beat explores stories from Rothko's childhood selling newspapers in Portland, to finding his peer group of artists in New York, including Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, to his transformational work helping birth a new, uniquely American art form.
View episode here: https://www.pbs.org/video/rothko-life-beyond-the-abstract-ngnsv1/
Producer & Writer
“The next frontier in mining: deep sea exploitation in the pacific”
With support from the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting, 2017
The ocean has a wealth of resources. From food, to travel, to pharmaceutical needs, and to energy, the ocean has always provided for mankind. And now, mankind is turning to the ocean for minerals and metals needed for the technology we use in our everyday lives. An exploration into the emerging industry of deep sea mining leads to more questions than answers.
Press: Pulitzer Center