Growing up, I loved to be behind the camera as well as in front of it. When I was eight years old, I auditioned for a local feature-length independent film called “Skyboys,” and I got the part! I was the co-star of a 120 page script. This kicked off multiple years of filming a StarWars-esque space odyssey, complete with a model rocketship, space pirates, witches, robots, and much more. And just like that, I was hooked on the craft of filmmaking. Being on set, seeing special effects in-progress, and being coached on my skills as an actor swung me into film in a way nothing but immersion could.  My mother was a filmmaker (among other things) and would let me borrow her camera and tripod to shoot. My first films were loosely cut together in iMovie, borrowing sound effects and scores from GarageBand. My first films as a ten year old featured plastic farm animals and toy trains and cars. This quickly evolved to improv comedy sketches with friends from school. Word spread quickly around my third-grade classroom, and I ended up burning DVDs to show during lunch. With the help of Kate (my mother), I made a film called “Words, Words, Mere Words” that won the Youth Prize of 2011 at the Ashfield Film Festival, a local competition. The next year, I entered again and won the Music Video Prize in 2012. All throughout third and fourth grade, I made around 200 short films. 

In the years that followed, film never left as a passion of mine. I went to a performing arts middle and high school for film and theater. In all four years of high school, I was in the short film production class, helping to make films such as Infested (2016), The Fourth Wall Club (2017), Mulligan (2018), and Doomsday (2019). Doomsday was my first experience co-directing. I learned so much in those four years about what goes into filmmaking and how rewarding and incredible it can be. I also entered the Ashfield Film Festival again as a 17 year old, making a comedy short with my best friend Trace McLaurin called Rewind (2018) that won the Youth Prize and Audience Choice awards. 

Initially, I went to school for VMA (Visual-Media Arts) at Emerson College. However, once the pandemic hit midway through my freshman year, I decided city life was not for me. I began taking classes in poetry, writing, and abstract filmmaking, first online at Emerson and then at Greenfield Community College. Throughout my life so far, I have never stopped creating films, photography, writing, and other forms of multimedia art. I am scared shitless of losing my passion and that drives me to create as much as possible. While this may be a non-traditional motivation, it keeps me going. I will continue to create, hopefully until the day I die.