I got into this work because someone pointed a camera at my town.

I grew up in North Texas, in a place people mostly drove through. When a film crew came to tell a story about our county, they got it wrong — well-lit, well-scored, and wrong. That bothered me enough to pick up a camera and spend the next decade learning how to get it right.

Today I direct and shoot documentary work for nonprofits, foundations, and founders. Most of my projects begin a long way from a shot list: on a porch, in a clinic waiting room, on a fourteen-hour drive with a field director who is deciding whether to trust me. The film is the easy part. Earning the room is the work.

I also teach. Somewhere along the way I realized the most useful thing I could hand an organization wasn't another film — it was the ability to make their own. So I speak, run workshops, and train in-house teams to shoot, edit, and hold the ethical line without me in the room.

When I'm not on a project, I'm usually with my church's field partners in Guatemala and Kenya, or at home in Dallas losing an argument with a very opinionated dog.