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I first fell in love with videomaking as a child on vacations when my mom was the moviemaker. I was transfixed by home videos of my life going by, and for as long as we had a VHS player, I was consumed in our old home tapes, going as far as keeping friends up all night watching them! I took for granted those old JVC VHS camcorders, unaware of their aesthetic potential and frustrated that I couldn't get something to look like a Hollywood movie. I eventually got my own Canon GL2 miniDV camcorder and began making movies in high school, including school projects, event coverage, documentaries, and of course, my own attempt at narrative movies. From there, I attended trade schools like the Northern Westchester Tech Film/TV program and New York Film Academy.

My first attempt at directing a fully developed short film was 'god's Man,' a comedy about the state of Heaven in the near future when Mankind is abandoning religion. But portions were left unshot, and with school projects to catch up on, it was shelved. Later that year, I shot and completed another fully developed short, 'Lies Within,' about an aging priest confronting a mysterious confessor late on Christmas Eve.

As finding a project to latch onto is in of itself soul searching, I tend to circle around themes of human spirituality, whatever that means and doesn't mean. I don't have a specific genre I subscribe to, as often I'm blending elements of drama, comedy, sci-fi, fantasy, and surrealism. I believe that art is what we have to demonstrate a soul, whether there's anything meaningful to that or it's merely a complex illusion. Whatever it is, it's certainly a hell of a footprint to leave behind.