About Me
Hi there. I’m an Emmy Award-winning Director & Producer based in Altadena, CA. I’m proud to have setup and directed on some of the world’s most visually ambitious and emotionally resonant documentary series.
My short documentary, “A Broken House,” was shortlisted for the 2022 Academy Awards for “Best Documentary Short.” It also won the International Documentary Association (IDA) Award for “Best Short” and was nominated by Cinema Eyes for “Best Non-Fiction Short.” It premiered at Hot Docs, won both the “Bridging the Border” prize and “Audience Award for Best Documentary” at Palm Springs ShortsFest, and “Best Documentary Short” at Academy-qualifying film festivals, River Run, Salem, SCAD Savannah Film Festival, among others.
I set the tonal and visual aesthetic and directed the pilot of "Unsolved Mysteries," the reimagining of the 80s cult series; produced by 21 Laps ("Stranger Things"), "Unsolved" spent its first 10 days on Netflix as the most watched series in the world. My episode also became a source of highly disturbing memes and was honored for melding the past and future of the series :)
I also setup the series and directed an episode of the Apple+ / A24 series, “HOME;” and I direct episodes of the critically acclaimed documentary series, “Chef’s Table” for Netflix (IDA Winner - “Best Documentary Series”).
Previously, I directed and produced Tomorrow We Disappear, a feature documentary about India’s last colony of magicians, acrobats, and puppeteers. It premiered in competition at the Tribeca Film Festival, and IndieWire listed it as one of the “20 Best Documentaries of 2014.”
My interactive documentary for the Pulitzer Center, “Live Hope Love,” a poetic exploration of the HIV crisis in the Caribbean, won an Emmy for “New Approaches to Documentary” and a Webby for “Best Art Website.”
Some other things:
I've directed commercials and branded documentaries for clients including Google, DoorDash, Budweiser, Nature's Variety, BNY Mellon, and more.
I am a principal in the film + interactive studio, Old Friend.
This is me and my dog Baba Ji. He’s a special angel dog:
