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.
Quarterfinalist, 2025 BlueCat Screenplay Competition
2025 Planning Grant Recipient, Philadelphia Independent Media Fund
2025 Donor Circle Pledge Recipient, Seed&Spark
Filming May 2025
“...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.
Filming Summer 2025
