RISING HOPE Trailer (3 min)
Rising Hope spent five years inside the Mississippi Delta, one of the most persistently impoverished regions in the United States, listening to the people who live and work there — educators, faith leaders, nonprofit organizers, veterans, and young people finding their way forward against long odds.
The film doesn't offer easy answers. It offers something rarer: real people doing real work, in real places, for each other.
In a time when the national conversation about race, poverty, and community often generates more heat than light, Rising Hope steps back from the noise and into the lives of people who have been navigating these realities for generations. Their stories are not about despair. They are about what it looks like when people refuse to give up on one another — and on themselves.
This film is for anyone who needs a reminder that the country contains more grace than the headlines suggest.
Best Mississippi Film & Audience Award, Oxford Film Festival 2024. Best Documentary, LightReel. Best Documentary and Best Director, Golden Gate International. Outstanding Excellence, Documentaries Without Borders. Currently on the festival circuit.
AMERICONS - Trailer (2 min)
A high-velocity journey of an unsuspecting mortgage broker swallowed up in the greed and over-indulgence of the mid-2000s real estate boom. A story about a decent guy who slowly stops being one.
National theatrical release through AMC. With Jon Gries and Trai Byers.
FIFTY PILLS - Trailer (3 min)
My first feature, directed at twenty-five. A college freshman has one weekend to sell fifty pills or get expelled. Comedy.
Premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. With Lou Taylor Pucci, Kristen Bell, Michael Peña, Eddie Kaye Thomas, and Jane Lynch. Shot on Super 16mm in New York and LA.