Curriculum Vitae
Education
Master of Fine Arts – Documentary
Media. Ryerson University, Toronto, ON.
September 2009 – August 2011
Awarded with Distinction.
Ryerson Graduate Scholarship. 2010-11
Ryerson Graduate Award. 2009-10
Bachelor of Arts – Cinema Studies
University of Toronto, Toronto, ON.
September 2002 – September 2006
Career highlights
- Several credits as visual researcher/archive producer, with extensive contacts in archive sales and knowledge of licensing, clearance protocols and rights issues.
- Nominated for Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research (Searching for Satoshi, 2025)
- Board Member of Visual Researchers Society of Canada (VRSC)
- Award-winning documentary filmmaker and editor
- Recipient of multiple Canada Council for the Arts,Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council grants
- Producer/host of 4-part audio documentary Polarities
- Journalist and music critic, with work published in NOW Toronto, Maisonneuve, and others
- 1 year as Content Acquisitions Manager and interactive video editor for Muuvment, a social impact software company
- Participant in Breakthrough Development Lab withDocumentary Organization of Canada (DOC) (2022)
- Member of Academy of Canadian Cinema & Television
Documentaries
Yintah (2024)
Eyesteelfilm / CBC / Netflix
It’s All Gonna Break (2024)
Fathom Films / Bell Media/Crave
Searching for Satoshi (2024)
Paul Kemp Productions / CBC
Nominated – Canadian Screen Award
Saving the Animals of Ukraine (2024)
Yap! Films / PBS Nature / CBC
Charlotte’s Castle (2023)
Cave 7 / TVO
Swan Song (2023)
Feature Documentary + 4 x 60 min. series
Visitor Media/CBC. TIFF Gala Selection
No Simple Way Home (2022)
Lightbox Limited.
Berlinale Official Selection
Hostile (2021)
Galeforce Films Raindance
Film Festival / Cambridge Film Festival
Terry Fox: The Power of One (2021)
National Day for Truth and Reconciliation (2021)
Insight Productions / CBC
A.rtificial I.mmortality (2021)
Fathom Films / Bell Media
Hot Docs Film Festival 2021 Opening Night Selection
Superfan: The Nav Bhatia Story (2020)
Uninterrupted / CBC
Becoming a Queen (2020)
Callowgrove
Assassins (2020)
Tripod Media / Magnolia Pictures
Sundance Film Festival Official Selection
Television Series
I Have Nothing (2023)
6 x 30 min. Blue Ant Media / Bell Media
Witness (2023)
6 x 15 min. CBC
Stay Tooned (2022)
6 x 30 min. CBC
One Armed Chef (2021)
6 x 60 min. Vice UK / Vice World News
Queer Crime Series (2020)
3 x 90 min. Yap! Films / OutTV/CBC
Back in Time for Winter (2020)
7 x 60 min. 3bird / eOne / CBC
Vintage Tech Hunters (2018)
12 x 30 min. Crooked Horse / Discovery Canada
The Grudge (2025)
Vice Media / Vice TV
Special Ops True (2025)
Efran Films / Paramount
Producer – Director
The Great Silence (Documentary, 13 min., 2021)
Official Selection – Big Sky Documentary Film Festival
Nominated for Best Short – Sebastopol Documetary Film Festival
Polarities (4 x 60 min. Podcast, 2019-2020)
iTunes/others
Orphans [a requiem] (Documentary, 30 min., 2016)
Best Documentary Award – Baikal Film Festival
Official Selection – Sebastopol Documentary Film Festival
The Flood and the Mountain (Documentary, 40 min., 2011)
MFA Thesis Film DOC NOW Festival