Work experience:
Editor on Salmon Restoration on the Penobscot — 2025 documentary short. 2023-2024, Penobscot Nation, Maine, Wαpánahkik..
Producer, Assistant Editor & Camera-operator on We Are the Warriors — 2023 documentary feature. 2017-2023, Wells, Maine, Wαpánahkik.
Co-Director, Editor, Writer & Camera-operator on This River is Our Relative — 2023 documentary feature. 2016—2023, Penobscot Nation, Maine, Wαpánahkik.
Video Editor and Grant Writer at Sunlight Media Collective — Wabanaki Environmental Media Production group. 2015—present, Lamoine, Maine, Wαpánahkik.
Producer & Co-Editor at The Malaga Ship — in production, documentary short. 2025—present, Maine & Brazil.
Producer/Director on The Power of Storytelling — in post-production, documentary feature. 2019—present, Colorado, Nuuchu territory.
Associate Producer & Camera-operator on “Native Horse” — 2024 documentary feature. 2023—2024, western Turtle Island.
Editor on Kihtahkomikumon (Our Land) — 2021 documentary short. 2021, Motahkomikuk, Maine, Wαpánahkik.
Director & Editor on The Maker — 2017 documentary short. 2016-2017, Gouldsboro, Maine, Wαpánahkik.
Production Assistant on Backsiders — 2018 narrative short. August 2017, Southwest Harbor, Maine, Wαpánahkik.
Camera-operator & Editorial Assistant on The Penobscot: Ancestral River, Contested Territory — 2015 documentary feature. 2015, Lamoine, Maine, Wαpánahkik.
Production Assistant & Camera-operator for Fund for Maine Islands’ CIERA Project — 2015, web content. Sept – Nov 2014, Islands in Maine/Wαpánahkik & Samsø, Denmark.
Camera-operator on Pale Horse Phantasm — 2013 music video for Arborea. Mount Desert Island, Maine, Wαpánahkik.
Education:
College of the Atlantic — Bachelor of Arts in Human Ecology focused on Documentary Video Production. Jan. 2012—June 2016. Bar Harbor, Maine.
Production & Teaching Intern at Docs in Progress, a documentary filmmaking educational nonprofit organization. Autumn 2015, Silver Spring, Maryland.
Selected Screenings & Awards:
“We Are the Warriors” received the 2025 Boston/New England Regional Emmy Award for Best Cultural Documentary, the 2023 Tourmaline Prize for Best Feature at the Maine International Film Festival, the 2024 Best New England Feature award at the Massachusetts Independent Film Festival, the 2024 jury prize for Best Documentary at the Bates Film Festival, and aired on Maine Public Television and Vermont Public Television in 2024.
“Salmon Restoration on The Penobscot” was awarded Best Documentary Short of 2025 at the Castine Film Festival, screened at film festivals across the country, and aired on Maine Public television.
“This River is Our Relative” screened in 2023 at the Midcoast Maine Film Fest in Damariscotta, Maine, the Maine Outdoor Film Festival in Portland, Maine, the Eugene Environmental Film Festival in Eugene, Oregon, the Three Fires International Film Festival in Huntsville, Ontario, Canada, the 28th Red Nation International Film Festival in Los Angeles, California, aired on Maine Public Television in autumn 2023, and is used in lesson plans by teachers in Orono and Millinocket, Maine.
“Kihtahkomikumon (Our Land)” screened in 2021 at the 46th Annual American Indian Film Festival, the 26th Annual Red Nation International Film Festival, and the 10th Annual Garifuna International Indigenous Film Festival.
The Maker screened at the Midcoast Maine Film Fest in Damariscotta, Maine, and at the REEL Crafted Film Festival in Vancouver, BC, Canada.
The Penobscot: Ancestral River, Contested Territory was a 2015 New England Emmy Award Nominee.
Backsiders was nominated for Best LGBTQ Film at the 2019 Queens World Film Festival.