My Work
The Queen of Scream: Darby Mills
22:49
After a harsh reminder that life is too short to give up on your dreams, Darby Mills, longtime lead singer of the Canadian rock band, The Headpins, embarks on a risky solo career.
Official selection of The Okanagan Film Festival, Kelowna BC, Redline Film Festival, Toronto, and The Women of Fifty Film Festival UK
Force 136: Chinese Canadian Heroes
16:46
In 1944, approx. 150 Chinese Canadians were recruited and dropped behind Japanese enemy lines. We meet the surviving soldiers to hear how they fought for our country even while they were denied the full rights of Canadian citizens and how their actions helped pave the way for the right to vote. Screened on Remembrance Day 2017 at Sun Yat-Sen Garden, Vancouver. Screened on Air Canada in-flight entertainment 2018.
Return To Hogan's Alley
Asexual: A Love Story
16:30
15:22
Return to Hogan’s Alley is an award winning short documentary about Vancouver's original black neighborhood. This vibrant and notorious area was a magnet for famous entertainers but it was also seen by 1960s city planners as an example of urban blight. Although the heart of Hogan's Alley was destroyed to make way for a proposed 12-lane freeway, the loss of the neighbourhood awakened a rebellion that halted the project and changed Vancouver forever.
1% of Canadians identify as asexual. But what does that mean? Meet a handful of "ACES" who find love and happiness on their own terms.
Official selection of Fairy Tales Film Festival, Calgary 2015, QueerFilmFest Rostock Germany 2018
Safety in Numbers
Safety in Numbers
15:46
What was it like to be transgender before there was even such a thing as a trans community? Pioneers who grew up in the 1950's and 1960's reflect on their personal experiences while young people in the community today offer their own stories.
Rebels of the 70's
14:51
The 1970's was Vancouver's coming-of-age decade. Political and social rebellion transformed it from an industrial, working class border town into a world class city that welcomed the world for Expo '86.
Rush For Freedom
16:30
In the 1850s, in what is now Victoria, Governor James Douglas fought against American expansionism by inviting up hundreds of Black Americans from San Francisco. The legacy of this population is still felt today.
The Okanagan Applebox Belles
16:21
Women worked for decades in Canada's Okanagan fruit packing industry, finding community, agency, and camaraderie at a time when women in the workplace had few options. They also fought bravely for labour rights and enacted change in the industry through their activism, high standards and work ethic.
Canada's Enemy Aliens
4:51
Recounts the little known story of Canada's first internment operations during WWI and how it affects their descendants today.
BIO
Originally from NYC, I moved to Vancouver for film school and never went home. I spent 15 years moving up the editing ladder starting as an apprentice on Jumanji to an assistant editor on low budget features to finally becoming an editor. I edited a variety of shows from features (including Air Bud 2), TV shows (including CBC's These Arms of Mine, The New Addams Family, Breaker High) as well as short films, ads, music videos and documentary series. I concentrated on editing and story editing for TV before transitioning to directing and producing in 2012. For the next 8 years I worked as a full time producer and director for Spotlight Productions where I produced over 300 short format (under 5 mins) stories as well as longer 15-30 minute documentaries of all varieties. Several of my short docs have been official selections at film festivals in Canada, the U.S., and the UK and my film, Return to Hogan's Alley, won best short documentary at the 2019 Baltimore International Black Film Festival. I've been nominated for a Leo 4 times as director (always a bridesmaid...) and I look forward to continuing to tell documentary stories for years to come.