I began working as an independent filmmaker in 2018. Since then, my short films have been selected and screened at film festivals in Canada, the United States, Scotland, and Spain

In 2019, I graduated from Acadia University, winning the Dr. A. H. Maclean Prize for Best Honours Thesis with my project “More than Meets the Eye: Nonconformist Art during the Khrushchev Thaw.”

Following that, I studied at the University of Glasgow, where I earned my Master’s degree in Filmmaking & Media Arts, graduating with distinction and the Edinburgh University Prize for Best Dissertation with my project “Sometimes Nothing is Heaviest.”

In recent times, I have been navigating the steep learning curve that comes with being a first-time instructor, turned 27 years old— best age ever— and, most impressively, have started reading serious books again after a season of postgrad burnout.

Happy to be here.

Education

2019-2020 MSc Filmmaking & Media Arts (with distinction)
University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

2015-2019 BA(Hons) History
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS

Grants, Awards, and Scholarships

[2022]
Canada Council for the Arts
Explore & Create: Concept to Realization Grant, awarded to the group Mezzopiano and Emily Ellis for the project Ravel’s Histoires Naturelles: A Stop-Motion Adaptation

Arts NS
Postproduction grant, awarded for the project Waiting on Arrival

Ifan Holweger Award for Best Student Animation
Learning on Screen Awards https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/awards/

[2021]
Canada Council for the Arts
Explore & Create: Concept to Realization Grant, awarded for the project Waiting on Arrival

[2020]
Edinburgh University Prize
Annually awarded to the Postgraduate Student who attains the strongest dissertation mark.
University of Glasgow School of Culture & Creative Arts, Film & Television Studies

[2019]
Dr. A. H. MacLean Prize
Annually awarded to the Honors Student who submits the strongest honors thesis.
Acadia University Department of History & Classics

Acadia University Bronze Medal in History
Annually awarded to the student in each department who attains the highest overall GPA.

[2018]
Constance Hayward Scholarship in History

Charles Roderick Brophy Award in History

[2017]
E. Blanche Thomas History Prize

[2016]
Acadia Excellence Scholar (AES) Scholarship

[2015]
Acadia Excellence Scholar (AES) Scholarship

Screenings and Presentations

Histoires Naturelles: An Animated Adaptation*

*this film is currently submitted to a number of festivals that have not yet made their official selections

Waiting on Arrival (2022)

  • Official Selection, FIN Atlantic International Film Festival

Sometimes Nothing Is Heaviest (2021)

  • Finalist, Vancouver Independent Film Festival

  • Official Selection, Barcelona Indie Filmmaker’s Festival

  • Official Selection, FIN Atlantic International Film Festival

LEMON (2020)

  • Official Selection, Edinburgh Short Film Festival

SOAP (2018)

  • Official Selection, FIN Atlantic International Film Festival (2019)

  • First Place, Whitflix Smartphone Film Festival, Wolfville, NS (2018)

  • Honorable Mention, Canada Shorts – Canadian & International Film Festival (2018)

[2020]
Afterlives: University of Glasgow College of Arts Annual Postgraduate Conference

“The Power Equation of Problematic Art”  
https://afterlivesconference2020.wordpress.com/