SPOTLIGHT ARCHIVE

Winter 2024 - 2025

Winter 2025

‘The Memory of Darkness, Light and Ice’ awarded at Wild & Scenic

The 2025 Wild & Scenic Film Festival has honored ‘The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice’ (2024) with the John de Graaf Environmental Filmmaking Award. Congrats team!

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Fall 2024

‘The Memory of Darkness, Light and Ice’ wins Best Documentary

The 2024 Raw Science Film Festival has honored ‘The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice’ (2024) with a win for Best Professional Documentary Feature. The film is a 56-minute documentary film about the startling discovery of a long-lost sediment core pulled from the depths of a Cold War-era secret military base. I had the pleasure of working alongside Director Kathy Kasic of Metamorph Films and Editor Tony Hale to animate many graphic sequences and sea level rise projection maps for the film.

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Photography: Kathy Kasic

‘Covenant of the Salmon People’ wins Emmy for Best Documentary

Summer 2024

The 2024 NW Regional Emmys have honored ‘Covenant of the Salmon People’ (2023) with a win for Best Documentary! I had the pleasure of working alongside Director Shane Anderson and Editor / Art Director Jesse Andrew Clark to give motion to many archival photo sequences and maps seen throughout the film. Similar to Swiftwater Film’s prior Emmy winning film ‘The Lost Salmon, I was thrilled to once again be given room to experiment creatively with different animation styles and approaches to help illustrate the story of the Nez Perce tribe. Many congratulations to the team that pulled it all together!

‘Covenant of the Salmon People’ is now streaming on PBS : Watch here

Photography: Jesse Andrew Clark

A massive part of client work for me this year was collaborating with podcaster Sabrina Salvati to bring her debut feature film to life. It involved a lot of head down work into research, archival, editing, motion graphics, and also producing post-production tasks, including collaboration with Illustrator Sophia Foster-Dimino who provided excellent assets for animated segments as well as bringing in Jesse Andrew Clark as Colorist who was also essential in bringing it all together and across the finish line. A true team effort that has resulted in a great documentary.

‘REMOVED: Black Erasure in Boston’ dives into the history of structural racism that has been perpetuated against Black Americans in Boston. Many state sanctioned policies that sound banal or beneficial on paper actually enshrine forms of systemic racism, leading to enhanced displacement and class divide.

A combination of redlining, urban renewal, gentrification, and mass incarceration have led to the erasure of Black Americans from Boston, Massachusetts. While discussing the history of these practices, this film also spotlights a current struggle between the city, allied with billionaire investors, and the local community fighting back against the takeover of White Stadium in Franklin Park.

Watch the Feature Film : HERE

Watch the Official Trailer : HERE

New Feature Documentary Completed! REMOVED: BLACK ERASURE IN BOSTON

Graphic by Scott Hanshew