F i l mMy history with film is a long one stemming from my childhood interest in pursuing animation. While at the High School for the Performing and Visual Arts (HSPVA) in Houston I took a class on video production then attended the traditional animation program (that's
animation created completely by hand, not by computer) at the School of
Visual Arts in New York City and have since completed a Certificate in
Film Studies at The Graduate Center of the City University of New
York.
My
first "real" live-action film experience, however, involved my 2007
research project with Hurricane Katrina survivors (see research link to
the left). I videotaped interviews with twelve survivors in New
Orleans and Houston and edited them into a few short films that I
screened in academic settings and one two-hour film entitled Ties That Bound After Levees That Broke: Collective Stories of Hurricane Katrina and New Orleans;
copies of which I provided to all who participated. The entire film was
created digitally using a Sony digital video camera and Sony Vegas
editing software and it tells the collective story of Hurricane Katrina
and its aftermath through the voices of twelve diverse survivors; from
the first time they heard of the approaching storm until one and a half
years later (the time of the interviews).