BMX Pro Nigel Sylvester rides for Hennessy. The creative called for an epic ride through the streets of San Francisco exploring Hennessy’s brand message to “Never Stop, Never Settle.” The film was unscripted & shot extemporaneously, and presented numerous production challenges. My role was to sculpt hours of raw footage and scattered interviews into a cohesive short story. I also did color and partial sound design.
My Role: Edit + Color
Agency: Laundry Service
I wrote/story produced and edited this short documentary for Rolling Stone, to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Woodstock 1969.
I was given nothing but interviews with 3 people who were there: two Rolling Stone writers, and performer Country Joe. For b-roll, I was limited to what royalty-free imagery we could get from Getty Images.
My Role: Write + Edit
Publisher: Rolling Stone
Yahoo! launched The Weekly Flickr as an original series to explore the inspirational power of photography, and the stories of the people behind innovative, iconic, and compelling images. From Nelson Mandela’s last portrait sitting, to shark divers, to a teen’s life-changing discovery by Maroon 5, and the World’s “Greatest” Father, the show covers a gambit of photographic topics and genres. Sometimes heart-rending, sometimes hilarious, sometimes social commentary, but always unique and engaging.
The show ran from 2012 to 2015, and we garnered over 50 Million views as well as a Webby nomination.
I was responsible for finding, pitching, & developing stories, and conducting, writing, & editing the interviews. I also conceived and created motion graphics and animation.
My Role: Direct + Produce + Edit + Motion
Agency: Yahoo!
A feature documentary.
In this three-year race against time, Tim Carey, a talented, yet unknown LA artist bluffs his way into winning the commission to create the largest stained-glass window of its kind. The problem is, he doesn’t know how to make it. After a desperate search, he finds someone who might have the answer…a famous glass maestro named, Narcissus Quagliata.
Distributed by Roco Films and Abramorama
Jury Awards:
Edmonton International Film Festival
Naples International Film Festival
San Diego International Film Festival
Audience Awards:
Slamdance Film Festival
deadCenter Film Festival
Florida Film Festival
Dances with Films
San Luis Obispo International Film Festival
Annapolis Film Festival
Port Townsend Film Festival
My Role: Film Editor + Motion
Director: Justin Monroe
People the TV show was a daily broadcast, entertainment news show produce by the People Magazine brand from September 2020 thru April 2022, and aired nationwide. I was the lead graphic designer for the series, responsible for crafting the overall look and feel of the show.
I was also responsible for interviewing, hiring and training additional artists.
I developed user-editable Premiere templates for our editing team, in order to standardize and streamline our daily workflows. These included things like lower thirds, adjustable mortises, and transitions. In addition, I designed and produced daily bespoke graphics, usually on a very tight turnaround time. I coordinated workflows with the control room team team, including the Ross XPression operators, director, and VTR operator, as well as consulting with editors to maintain organizational efficiency on our SAN. I even occasionally produced print and web deliverables. I also developed the show’s style guide.
Heavy After Effects, with 2.5D & 3D design, advanced use of expressions, all working under tight, daily deadlines.
My Role: Motion
Executive Producer: Rob Silverstein
Production Company: Meredith Dotdash
Comfort Nation is a digital series hosted by "Son of a Southern Chef", Lazarus Lynch. Lynch meets chefs from around the world to discover the unique comfort foods from different cultures. I cut several episodes, including the pilot, "Jerk Chicken".
Mancrafted is a branded series on FoodNetwork.com, sponsored by McCormick. The creative called for a series that follows host James Briscione as he meets up with groups of guys engaged in unique activities, and then to introduce them to a flavorful dish prepared with with McCormick spices.
I was handed several hours of unscripted footage for each episode, and tasked with finding a story, meeting brand guidelines, and reinforcing key themes such as "flavor" and "spice", while crafting a story that balanced lifestyle activities and a themed cooking demonstration.
New ‘Cue is a digital series on FoodNetwork.com, hosted by chef Dale Talde. I was part of the editing team for 3 episodes.
My Role: Edit
Shingle: Spacestation
Producer/Director: Matthew Mills & Chris Vivion
In addition to editing these spots, I assisted with extensive compositing and vfx, which included altering the colors of the liquids, tracking & applying new labels to the bottles, and re-compositing and color-correcting the hand-punch through.
My Role: Edit + VFX
Agency: J. Walter Thompson
Produced by astrophysicist Neil DeGrasse Tyson and directed by Academy Award nominee Scott Hamilton Kennedy, Shot in the Arm is a feature documentary exploring vaccine hesitancy historically and in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic.
I was one of the primary graphic artists on the film, responsible for nearly a hundred shots in the final film. I designed a wide variety of elements, from camera-tracked on-screen titles to complex illustrations and animations.
My Role: Motion
Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
Barbarian wanted to highlight its wide-ranging work for Samsung, from re-designing their website to developing interactive retail kiosks. I was tasked with cutting and animating a reel of their work, and then cutting a case study focused solely on an in-store app they developed for Samsung retail locations.
My Role: Edit + Motion + Color
Agency: Barbarian
Southern Living’s Building Hope series profiles the work of Operation Finally Home, a non-profit which builds new homes for disabled or underserved military veterans. Each soldier featured on the series has his or her story told in 3 episodes. The first tells the story of their service and injuries or trauma, if applicable, and reveals the building of their new home. The second follows them through the process of construction, and details the ways in which the new house will be customized to meet their unique needs. The third episode showcases the house being decorated and furnished by JC Penney and volunteers, and the big reveal when the family finally enters their new home.
I cut & colored the third episode of Retired U.S. Army Sgt. Matthew Hutcheson’s story.
Episodes one & two are here & here.
My Role: Edit + Color
Agency: Time Inc. Studios
Director: Pete Matkiwsky
I cut this tribute to Arnold Palmer in the summer of 2016 for Golf.com. It ran the day he died – September 25, 2016.
My Role: Edit + Motion
Agency: Time Inc. Studios
An elite fitness trainer for the military shares his reasons for doing the 23andMe DNA test, what he learned, and how it has impacted his personal workout regimen.
My Role: Edit
Agency: Transient Pictures
Director: Jeremy Levine
Curios wanted to promote its industry-leading platform for NFT creators. Curios called me. I produced, co-wrote, edited, and animated this short advertising sizzle explaining and promoting their user-friendly platform that makes it easy for anyone to begin minting and selling their own NFTs.
My Role: Produce + Edit + Motion
I was one of the editors on this 1 hour special about the history of North Korea’s participation in and relationship with the Olympic Games. I was responsible principally for cutting the 3rd act, which covers North Korea’s bombing of a South Korean airliner shortly before the 1988 Seoul Games, and the preparations the South undertook to preclude further terrorist attacks. The series was produced by ABC News, for National Geographic, and aired live with Bob Woodruff anchoring in-studio in PyeongChang.
My Role: Edit
Network: ABC News / National Geographic Channel
Hearing First is a non-profit dedicated to helping families with deaf or hearing-impaired children live normal lives through the use of cochlear implants and hearing aids. They commissioned a series of 12 short documentaries profiling families with deaf children, whose lives have been transformed through hearing technology. The stories were structured to not only relate each family’s unique journey, but to also speak to the fears and hopes of new parents with children born deaf, and guide them towards a decision to embrace a technological solution to their crisis. The entire series can be viewed at LSLLife.com.
My role: Edit + Color
Agency: Fivestone
Director: Gillian Fritzsche
As a senior editor & motion designer for Goldman Sachs’ Global Marketing team, I worked closely with the head of video to develop concepts for both internal and external-facing video productions and advertisements. We produced content within a variety of genres, from economic and market outlooks, to documentary profiles of rising entrepreneurs, to client presentations. I was responsible for all editing, color, and animation in these videos.
My Role: Edit + Motion + Color
Agency: Goldman Sachs Global Marketing
I animated a series of classic paintings in iconic lower NYC locations as part of a marketing campaign for One Wall Street. The completed animations were used as part of an installation as well as on social media to promote a new premium residential offering.
My Role: Motion Design
Agency: DBOX
The brief called for a complex social campaign of Instagram ads, formatted in various aspects for use in Instagram Stories, as well as in-feed.
I was tasked with editing and color, as well as building out timings, and formatting and reframing for different deliverables. I worked closely with the agency creative team to design and build all the animation/graphics, and contributed direction during the sound mix.
My Role: Edit + Motion + Color
Agency: Tribal
When Fortune Magazine published an article for each of its "2016 World's Greatest Leaders", it included a short video for each with the writer sharing the highlights of that leader's merits. I cut this one summarizing Bono's leadership of the ONE Campaign and his achievements at combatting poverty & AIDS.
I was given a raw, unscripted 45 minute interview with no direction, transcript, or even notes, and only permitted to license editorial stills as b-roll. And I had less than 2 days to put it together.
My Role: Edit
Agency: Time Inc. Studios
A little sampling of my motion graphics & VFX work
The Garden is an Oscar-nominated feature documentary that chronicles a senseless collusion of greed and governmental impotence in Los Angeles, culminating in the destruction of the largest urban garden in the United States. A lifeblood for poor immigrant farmers in south Los Angeles since the riots of the early 90s, the garden is ultimately sold out from under the farmers, who go to court and ultimately wage a losing, celebrity-studded PR battle to save their farm.
I was brought in near the end of post-production as the online editor to oversee the finishing of the completed film, and also as offline editor for the trailer.
The film was distributed by Oscilloscope, and is available on Netflix. and here.
My Role: Conform Editor + Trailer Editor
Director: Scott Hamilton Kennedy
I cut several of the DVD featurettes for the New Line / Walden Media feature film, Hoot. Its impressive cast included future Oscar-winner Brie Larson, Luke Wilson, Logan Lerman, Agent Coulson, & Tim Blake Nelson, plus Jimmy Buffett, and director Wil Shriner.
My Role: Edit
Agency: KG Productions
Director: Steve Kochones
Brunswick Group has come to me to edit or animate a variety of projects for PwC.
We produced ROX during mid-2020, when the pandemic had effectively precluded any sort of in-person film production, so it was an exercise in developing a product video using only stock footage and graphic elements. I was given a rough script and worked closely with Brunswick to develop the edit and all graphic design from the ground up.
My Role: Edit + Motion
Agency: Brunswick Group
Producer: Adam Bracey
A sample of a variety of my editing work
These are just a few of a number of sizzles and other videos I did for Google.
TV For All was for Google TV’s advertising sales team. The 4 As of Advertising was a B to B "search story" aimed at an advertising client.
My Role: Edit + Motion
Agency: Pomegranate
A very bad day in the life of a luckless gambler on the run from his gambling debts. Things go from bad to worse when he takes a job for a sociopathic slumlord.
This short was played 17 festivals and was pivotal in launching my career.
My Role: Produce + Edit + Motion + Color
Directors: Justin Monroe & Daniel Sullivan
It could have been a totally sweet guitar lesson!
Jerry is ready to profess his love for his student. Diane is ready to fire her teacher. Will love win out? Can Jerry stand the cold November sunshine? I co-produced & cut this short film.
My Role: Produce + Edit + Motion + Color
Shingle: Breve Films
Director: Gillian Fritzsche
Microsoft’s OEM division needed a way to promote their close integration of Windows Live with Asus’ new EEEPC line of affordable lifestyle PCs and netbook computers around the globe, and sought a language-independent spot to run across the spectrum in broadcast, retail, and online channels. Microsoft called Hatcher. Hatcher called me.
The goal was to capture the immediacy and cloud-connectivity of the Asus products, as enabled by Windows Live, with a light ribbon that connects the otherwise disparate narratives of an ensemble ranging from teenagers to grandparents, playing across the globe.
We shot on RED, and finished at 1080p. In addition to cutting the spot, I worked closely with director Matt Snyder in devising the look and life of the ribbon system, supervised VFX on set, and tracked and implemented all the VFX and graphics.
My Role: Edit + Motion + VFX
Agency: Hatcher
Director: Matt Snyder
A quirky buddy comedy about the brutal underground world of competitive karaoke.
This indie feature follows two misfits from rural Oklahoma as they pursue misguided dreams of rock stardom, and face down their childhood demons . The film stars Marshall Bell (Total Recall, Twins, Capote).
In addition to cutting the film, I did the online conform, color, and many of the visual effects. I was one of two editors on the trailer.
Gravitas Ventures handled distribution. Watch it here.
My Role: Edit + Motion + VFX + Color + Produce
Director: Justin Monroe
• Winner, Jury Prize, “Best Indie Feature”, Edmonton International Film Festival 2010
• Winner, Jury Prize, “Best Narrative Feature”, Offshoot Film Festival, Fayetteville, Arkansas 2010
• Winner, Jury Prize, “Best Feature”, Tulsa United Film Festival 2010
• Winner, Audience Award, Tulsa United Film Festival 2010
• Winner, Audience Award, Offshoot Film Festival, Fayetteville, Arkansas 2010
• Winner, “Best of Fest” & “Best Soundtrack”, Idyllwild International Festival of Cinema 2011
• Winner, Best Oklahoma Feature, deadCENTER Film Festival 2010
• Winner, Maverick Award, Method Festival 2010
• Winner, “Rising Star Award (Jack Roberts)”, Edmonton International Film Festival 2010
• Official Selection to 17 festivals internationally
I cut and animated, as well as helped to write, this promo video introducing Sports Illustrated’s SI Play, a digital platform offering for youth sports leagues in need of a way to organize and facilitate their programs.
My Role: Edit + Motion + Write
Agency: Time Inc. Studios
This short documentary tells the story of how an American ex-pat living in Northern England, who hadn’t been home for Christmas in 15 years, surprised her family with a little help from Microsoft Lumia & Skype.
London-based agency Mission developed the #MakeItHappen social campaign, soliciting holiday resolutions & wishes, and then actually made it happen for 31 lucky winners.
We Are Films produced and directed in the U.S. Heading into the cut, I was given some pre-production boards and pre-selected music, but the shoot had been decidedly verité, and so post-production entailed working closely with both the directors and agency to craft a concise, coherent, & emotional narrative from hours of documentary footage. We received 1.4 Million YouTube views within a couple days of its release.
My Role: Story Produce + Edit + Motion + Color
Agency: Mission London
Director: Alex & Aaron Craig
I cut a wide range of programs for Yahoo! Finance. Driven and My Family Business were two programs focused on profiling exceptional entrepreneurs. These are a couple of my favorite episodes.
My Role: Edit + Color
Shingle: Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! Studios hired me to edit, and co-story produce this 12 episode branded docu-comedy series, sponsored by Ballpark. With tongue firmly in cheek, “man-cheologist” and host, Jesse Cantrell braves the wooly world of dudes in vain effort to help women understand why guys are into things like sports, beer, poker, video games, and other popular masculine pastimes.
My Role: Edit + Story Produce
Shingle: Yahoo! Studios
