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I’ve been a theater artist for decades, a filmmaker for just a few years. 


The creative freedom that drew me to high-risk, low-budget, independent theater has recently become a possibility in the filmmaking world,

thanks to unprecedented public access to the means of production and distribution... (cheap cameras, computer editing, internet distribution)


While still in Costa Rica I began learning what I could, taking editing courses, reading books , catching up on film history, making videos.  Most important to that self-teaching was a podcast called Directors Notes, which I highly recommend for both knowledge and inspiration.  My newfound fascination culminated with the intensive Masters degree I took in directing film at the University of Barcelona (ESCAC) last year.


It was a steeper learning curve than I’d been on in years, but if a challenge was what I was seeking, mission accomplished--and in Spanish to boot.  The links below include my three student films, all of which are experiments in some way or other with extending my ideas from the stage to the screen.