Real people, in their own words
Most of what I make puts real people on camera — therapists, practice owners, and the communities they serve. These are the pieces where the job was to tell their story. I produce them with our in-house video team, from concept through the shoot and into the edit.
The story reel
A minute and a half, carried entirely by the people in these films. Every piece below is in it.
Access to Care
Encircle runs its LGBTQ+ youth and family centers out of ordinary houses on ordinary streets in Utah. The film spends a day inside them: a clinical director who never expected to move back, a therapist who came to the work after losing a client, and the kids who walk in the door — in their own words.
The product never appears on screen. The company's name opens and closes it, and everything in between belongs to the people in the house.
Lift Her
A practice owner and the clinician she brought on, sitting across from each other and talking about what that relationship changed for both of them. It runs as one conversation: nervous laughter, then the thing neither of them had said out loud, then the tissues, then laughing through it.
Most of it plays in split screen — both faces on while one of them speaks — so you watch the listener hear it.
Practitioner Story: Malia Burgess
The same story as Access to Care, told a different way: one clinician, built for a phone. It moves from grief to purpose to joy in under a minute.
The words “queer joy” land on her laughing. That cut is the piece.
The same instinct runs through the rest of it — the short films I shot and cut, and the paid media we make from the same kind of shoot.