Documentary shorts and social assets for IllumiNative

Katishtya Girl

Editor for documentary short/teaser about Madison Hammond, a defender and midfielder for Los Angeles’ Angel City FC. The 25-year-old, who is Navajo, San Felipe Pueblo and Black, has broken barriers for Native athletes everywhere by being the first Native player in the NWSL.

Producers: Crystal Echo Hawk (Pawnee) & Jessica McEver (Cherokee) for IllumiNative, Evan Pohl for Reno Productions

Social Media assets

Editor and graphics for social media assets.

Created assets to promote Katishtya Girl, to educate about the Supreme Court ICWA vote, and to promote IllumiNative’s milestones and new initiatives.

• on Madison Hammond 
• on ICWA
• on IllumiNative’s 5 Year Anniversary

Resettlement: Chicago Story

Edited this narrative short with director Reina Higashitani. In festivals starting February 2023.

Signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, Executive Order 9066 led to the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans during WWII. Resettlement: Chicago Story tells an intergenerational story of the Yamamoto family several years after being placed in one of these camps, as they struggle to rebuild their lives and make ends meet through their family dry cleaning business. The film’s companion immersive learning website builds upon both the characters and historical events of incarceration and resettlement introduced in the film to create the “world” through which viewers can engage with facts, figures, and important social themes and asks students to consider what it would be like to be forced to leave your home, deny your heritage, and start over.

The full film will be available on the learning website soon.

Salt in My Soul

Director: Will Battersby

Salt in My Soul is a documentary film and classic coming of age story about a young woman figuring out how to live while dying. Mallory Smith was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis at the age of three. Using Mallory’s posthumously published 25,000-page secret diaries, along with hundreds of hours of newly discovered footage & audio recordings, the film offers Mallory as the narrator of her own extraordinary chronicle.

100% Fresh – Rotten Tomatoes

“A powerful, life-affirming documentary” – NPR

“Intimacy pervades [this] moving documentary” – LA Times

“Watching the film, one senses her loss the way one might sense the loss of a friend.” – Spirituality & Health

“Salt in My Soul strikes a graceful balance… it centers itself on her voice and viewpoint, her determination not to let her illness define her while grappling with her ambitions and mortality.” – Alliance of Women Film Journalists

SYFY: Re-Do It Yourself  Where’s the tape?

Promotion for Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 2 broadcast. Spot was used on the SYFY channel and on their social media accounts.

Murder for Hire / Oxygen

Edited suite of Facebook promos for Oxygen’s Murder for Hire.

SYFY: Geek Out at Home Social Distancing Day 13

Created station IDs for SYFY broadcast re-imagining what one of our favorite horror characters might be doing as pandemic lockdowns began.

US Bank

Wrote and edited suite of :15 second cutdowns for use as social media ads.

Facebook Groups

Wrote and edited :15 cutdowns for use as social media ads.