BODYCOUNT
During a quiet moment of closeness, a young couple’s playful banter takes a profound and sobering turn when a simple question about the past redefines the meaning of "counting" one's life experiences.
Across the Aisle
An idealistic congressman attempts to woo his colleague from the other side of the aisle.
Oppressive & Crippling Demons
A young Woman named Lilith begins to have haunting visions caused by a malevolent being. As these hauntings continue, she slowly loses more of herself.
Andragogy
A schoolteacher's reputation is at risk when a video of her speaking up against injustice goes viral on the internet and is misinterpreted.
Rustling
In a family of sheep rustlers, a 15-year-old must go up against his domineering father to help his younger brother keep the lamb left orphaned by their latest slaughter. Rustling touchingly presents an alternative masculinity instilled not with machismo, but with empathy.
Encontré lo que Buscaba
Life After
To prevent an act of domestic terrorism, a negotiator must break protocol and make an emotional bond with the hostage taker.
Highway to the Moon
Follows the experiences of young Black men whose lives have been abruptly snatched away. Micah is a young man who finds himself in the Inbetween, a mysterious realm between life and death, after his life is suddenly cut short. As he journeys through this liminal space, guided by a group of other young men, they confront what it means to be a Black boy in today’s society, weaving together a narrative of resilience and self-discovery, in order to ultimately empower each other to embrace empathy, mutual compassion and self-worth.
Rabbits Under the Shed
After a disagreement with her mom, 8-year-old Natalie runs away — all the way to her backyard, where she meets a family of rabbits and decides to move in with them. Songs are sung and friends are made in this sweet, funny short film about building trust, overcoming fear, and connecting across difference to make room for everyone.
Descend Beyond
Talbot Grimes, a young man filled with unconstrained ambitions, secures himself a position within the British East India Company. He discovers another realm spilling into their own, which sparks an unconventional fascination in him.
Kitten of vluchteling?
After a Separation
After five years apart, three friends reunite in their hometown to uphold a tradition they started in high school. However, it isn't long before they find out just how different their lives have become.
Empathy
Ed is commissioned to make a documentary intending to change those habits of society that are harmful to animals. But completely alien to the animal protection movement, he will realize that to carry out the project, he must first convince himself.
Get to the Wire
In a dystopian future, an Australian-Iraqi woman held captive in a chaotic and brutal British immigration detention centre takes up severe measures to survive and reconnect with her estranged family.
The Ugly Face of Disability Hate Crime
Adam Pearson - who has neurofibromatosis type 1 - is on a mission to explore disability hate crime: to find out why it goes under-reported, under-recorded and under people's radar.
Anthropics
A young boy searches for the meaning of life, but instead must learn to cope with issues much greater than himself.
3rd FLOOR
A routine elevator ride becomes a battlefield when Maya Uche, a Black activist, and Brett Kiminski, a white conservative, are trapped together between floors. With nowhere to run, their assumptions, anger, and buried grief rise to the surface, forcing both strangers to face the truth behind their politics — and the pain that made them who they are.
Trumphobia: What Both Sides Fear
Donald J. Trump's fervent supporters and scared opponents were affected by Trump's rhetoric and the media's interpretation, increasing a dangerous political division. Now, It's time for them to stop and listen to each other or push harder until they crash America's democracy.
Tots a una veu: Los desconocidos de la DANA
Catatonik
Catatonik is a multi sensory installation project which becomes part of my final study for the course design for social change. It is an attempt at trying to build spatial and sensorial elements which lets the body feel the microcosms of experiencing part of a coal mine and in turn an ingrained empathy as the effect of the experience. A consciously designed installation set to present the physicality of a place purely through an ethnographic reconstruction of sound and image in a different fabric of reality informed through research. The installation was entirely made in the campus of DJAD both the recording of the audio, video and its related textures.