features
Full-length phantasmagoria.
bone music
(feature spec)
During the height of Soviet censorship, a patriotic secretarial student’s hunt for a forbidden album leads to both personal and political revolution as she rises through the ranks of 1960s Leningrad’s black-market music trade.
Leningrad, 1963. All music deemed anti-Soviet is outlawed under the USSR’s strict censorship policies. Defying this ban, music-loving dissidents risk everything to create and distribute bootleg “bone records” on the black market. Without raw vinyl to use as material, the industrious bootleggers print the illegal albums—everything from The Beatles to Miles Davis, Buddy Holly and Billie Holiday—onto used x-rays. Modeled after classic spy films, Bone Music follows Bestreva, a 19-year-old secretarial student who undergoes both personal and political revolution when she’s thrust headlong into this underground world.
2022 Top-50 Nicholl Fellowship Semifinalist
2021 Nicholl Fellowship Semifinalist
Winner of Best Short Screenplay at the Cinequest Film Festival (for the POC short script)
Wouldn’t It Be Nice
(feature spec)
After unearthing the heinous truth of her family legacy, a sheltered yet audacious young woman raised in an isolated, all-female community makes a bloody sacrifice to save herself and her daughter.
Wouldn’t It Be Nice is an enigmatic cult horror turned gruesome home invasion thriller that digs deep into the themes of internalized patriarchy and trans-generational trauma through a female-centered lens.
HEMLOCK
(feature spec)
Ten years after escaping the fanatical cult that murdered her twin, an aspiring actress uses a fake identity to star as both herself and her sister in a rock opera about the cult's demise.
Set between haunting Appalachian backwoods and early 2000s Hollywood, Hemlock is a mind-bending murder mystery with a controversial rock opera at its core.