Category: Creative Production

Baye Harrell: Music Video Project (The Source)

‘Twas winter 2018 and my friend and creative collaborator Baye Harrell came to me with an idea (over the phone because he was living in LA). It was actual several ideas, for a music video associated with a new solo music project through his new […]

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Close Ties: Tying on a New Tradition (Update)

It’s been nine years since I released Close Ties: Tying on a New Tradition and just this year one half of the duo profiled in the doc, Wilbur “Chill” Wilson has passed away from pancreatic cancer. He wasn’t given much time to live by the […]

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My Son, The Actor: Two Monolgues

My son Excel has been engaged in various summer theater camps, acting symposiums and several high school stage productions at Wilson High School in Northwest, DC. He’s also an important employee at Park Triangle Productions. His behind the camera set experience has allowed him to […]

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Washington Sound Museum Screening at Eaton (9/28/2019)

Sometimes it feels good to just not have a camera in my hand, and watch a screening of something I had worked on, in the company of others. That’s what happened in the fall of 2019 at Eaton DC. The screening theatre was intimate, perfect […]

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Park Playground: Eternity

I’m not certain about the first time I went to Park Playground, which was just down the hill from my house on Bessica Street. However, I do remember the configurations of my earliest visits to the park, just not the order. A few times with […]

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The Last Lesson (2018)

The Last Lesson is a short film about the final boxing lesson from an esteemed boxing trainer and a young aspiring boxer. 15-year-old Sofia is given a lesson unlike any other lesson at her local gym, in a hope to keep her inspired to pursue […]

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KiKi’s with Louie: Web Series (11/2018)

Kikis with Louie is a web series featuring honest, deep conversations about the most challenging issues facing queer youth: relationships, sexuality, health, culture, and more. Below are some episodic samples I produced for the client. I was tasked with being the technical director for the […]

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Washington Sound Museum: Hip Hop Meets the Music of Brazil (2017)

I spent a few years working on covering Christylez Bacon’s Washington Sound Museum: Hip Hop Meets the Music of Brazil. The project was funded in part through the Sister Cities Grant with the DC Commission of the Arts and Humanities. Chris had been working on […]

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East Oakland Boxing Association Animation (2018)

We had the opportunity to work on several video products for the East Oakland Boxing Association, a youth-serving gym and community program in Deep East Oakland, California. They hadn’t any compelling media after almost 30 years and wanted a way to explain all that they […]

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USIP Building: A Visual Study (2015)

Spent a day filming at the USIP building for a project that never launched. So as usual, I made my own little video from it. Such a shame America doesn’t use peace asa tool more often. You’d thing the the United States Institute of Peace […]

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