OBSERVE. DREAM. CREATE.

As the creative director of Dreaming Monk Productions, I have many years of experience producing, writing, directing, video editing, and wielding a camera. I also provide production coordinator, media educator, and consulting services. Based in San Francisco, I am also available to work on projects in other regions and have ample international travel experience.

Content specialities: social justice, ethnography, video journalism, education, science and technology, sports, sustainable fashion, and dance.

Clients have included:

Google ATAP, GMR Marketing, Hubspot: Inbound, Conference on Movement and Computing Conference (MOCO), Codame Art + Tech, American Planning Association (APA), American Institute of Architects SF (AIASF), AboveGrey Pictures, SF Urban Film Fest, Black Cat Jazz SF, African Sky NGO, Lorraine Hansberry Theatre, Thrive Alliance NGO, Geena Davis Institute on Gender in Media, San Francisco Capoeira Academy, San Francisco Design & Fashion Weeks, SFFAMA, Tenacious Tennis Academy.

Contemplative, Streamlined, and Methodical Process

From all of my journeys to remote areas all over the globe and by growing up in eclectic San Francisco, I have developed a deep sense that we are all interconnected and interdependent. This notion drives my desire to explore the intersection between science, technology, education, culture, ecology, and the evolution of human consciousness.

While I travel to the clouds to find inspiration and creativity, I keep my feet firmly grounded to provide tangible project results. Using a cross-cultural and human-centered design lens aided by an academic background in Anthropology and the social sciences, my artistic process involves meditative observation, athleticism, open communication with colleagues and clients, and acute attention to detail. In my work related to social and environmental justice issues, I strive to highlight the dynamism of the human will and spirit.

In video, this includes the use of insightful interviews, ethnographic imagery, participatory filmmaking, poetic avant garde and auteur filmmaking techniques, and an engaging post-production editing style. In photography, this involves capturing moments in time that deeply immerse the viewer into the world and mental state evoked by the image.

Public Presentations & Screenings

San Francisco Dance Film Festival (2019) and Detour Dance Tiny Dance Film Festival (2021): Screened dance film “Imagined Escape” at the prestigious SF Dance Film Festival at the Brava Theater in San Francisco’s historic Mission district as well as the virtual Tiny Dance Film Festival.

American Planning Association (APA) NorCal Chapter - Awards Gala (2018, 2019): Awards Gala Video Presentation featuring the best urban planning projects in Northern California. Premiered in front of APA members at San Francisco City Hall and in Oakland.

Kinetech Arts - Interactive Workshop Guest Speaker (2018): “Integrating fine art with the documentary film form.”

SF Urban Film Fest (2017): Screened a series of short films commissioned by this organization in front of members and patrons in the North Beach district in San Francisco.

360BayArea Podcast - Featured Guest, Oakland (2017): "Creating engaging video content in today's sociopolitical and artistic landscape in the Bay Area."

SerendipiaLife - Social Entrepreneurship Collective, San Francisco (2016, 2017): "The intersection between documentary filmmaking, science and technology, and social entrepreneurship."  

California Institute of Integral Studies, Anthropology and Social Change Program (2016): "Food security and alternative economic systems, with case study in Mali, West Africa."