SELECTED WORKS
La Chef
Premiered at SF Film Doc Stories 2023 | Film SF Latinx Showcase 2024 | Santa Fe International Film Festival 2024
Producer + Editor | Mexico City, MX
In the heart of Mexico City's bustling culinary scene, a remarkable female chef exposes the pervasive influence of toxic masculinity and societal pressure on women in the industry. Through her own compelling journey of overcoming an eating disorder and finding her voice, she offers a fresh perspective on the challenges faced by women in the culinary world. With stunning visuals and unflinching honesty, this short documentary offers a powerful and timely examination of gender, identity, and the transformative power of food.
Antes del Sol
Reporting was supported by UC Berkeley's 11th Hour Food and Farming Fellowship | Acquired by world renowned Chef José Andrés
Producer + Editor | CAlifornia
Antes Del Sol is based on the shadow network of teenage farmworkers. As many as 500,000 kids between ages 12 and 17 work in America’s fields. This short film was screened at George Washington University. A deeper dive into this shadow network was published by Teen Vogue in October. Read it here.
Zide Door
Producer + CO-Editor| Oakland, CA
Smoke twirls from the lips of a man with a long beard and metal-framed glasses, who is dressed like the Pope with a psychedelic twist: embroidered gold hemp leaves decorate his cloak, and mushrooms adorn his stole.
Dave Hodges is the pastor, preacher, and founder of Zide Door, a nondenominational and interfaith church in Oakland where religious practice centers on the use of natural hallucinogens known as entheogens—mainly, mushrooms containing the psychoactive chemical psilocybin. For Hodges, “Mushrooms are the origin of all religion.”