A trans son navigates the aftermath of a difficult day caregiving for his newly disabled mother. Set on a back porch in isolated rural America, Care Taker is a short film that explores what it really means to support the ones you love at the intersection of two identities.
Quarter-finalist, 2025 BlueCat Screenplay Competition
2025 Planning Grant Recipient, Philadelphia Independent Media Fund
2025 Donor Circle Pledge Recipient, Seed&Spark
Currently in post-production.
“...the pill will be dropped into a standard-issue plastic cup as the physician in the corner jokes with your girlfriend about what superpower you’re most likely to get. “My bet’s on X-Ray Vision,” he’ll say. Your girlfriend will counter that it’d be cooler if you could read minds or fly.”
I wrote a personal essay to commemorate the one-year anniversary of my final treatment for thyroid cancer in 2024.
Read “What Superpower Do You Think She’s Gonna Get?” on Substack.
A pair of sisters muse about love and longing as they stroll through a Regency-era soiree. A short film adapted from Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice with director (and friend) Sophie Aguila.
Finalist, Jane Austen Society of North America Young Filmmakers Contest
