Narratives

The idea of "Ghosted" came to me when talking to a friend about her dating life. She talked about how funny the term was and expressed wanting to be able to talk to "ghosts" that have left her on read. From there, the idea bloomed into this dark humorous idea of men mysteriously dying after a date, unintentionally—but quite literally—ghosting the girl.

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When writing the script, I gained a lot of insight from my wife, as well as many other women voicing their concerns about dating men, and how uncomfortable they've felt from their common aggressive behavior.

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Ghosted was selected at multiple film festivals across the nation and won Best Comedy at the Southern Shorts Awards in 2022.

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This film has a special place in my heart, serving not only as one of our best films, but one that expanded my feminist viewpoints.

This short film started as a competition entry for the Carbon Shortcuts Project in 2024. Each filmmaker was given a few weeks to write, shoot and edit a short film. I was assigned the "post-apocalyptic" genre, and had to include coal as a prop, while implementing a fact about Utah.

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The idea of this film came from my brother-in-law and ethicist, who created a video about the popularity of post-apocalypse movies, specifically the Mad Max series. He suggested that the biggest combatant against a total collapse in civilization is surprisingly the idea of charity and care.

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I loved this idea and wanted to explore the very real conflict of trying to be a morally good and ethical person in a world that is constantly cruel to you.

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Flour went on to win Best Writing at the Carbon Shortcuts Project.

Hostile Home Environment was another competition entry where filmmakers were given a few weeks to write, shoot and edit a film. The prop we had to use was duct tape, and the line we needed to incorporate was "You're not gonna believe this."

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I wanted to avoid using these elements in an obvious way. The obvious usage of the duct tape was of course kidnapping someone and taping their mouth shut, so I wanted to go in a different direction by having the character's find a duct tape wallet.

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This was another fun feminist film that my wife gave a lot of insight towards as I was writing. This film would go on to win Best Sound, Best Use of Prop, Best Actress, and Best Editing. However, the real reward I got was at the end of the premiere, a woman came up to me and said "I'll be honest, I thought a woman wrote this." 

Before writing this, I was given the advice to try and write for one person. When writing a story that tries to appeal to everyone, your story could get lost and fall flat. So I decided to try and write a film that I know one person would like. That one person was my 16 year-old self.

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I wrote a dark comedy that is full of raunchy innuendos, F-bombs, and violence, something my teenage self would go bonkers for.

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This film was selected at film festivals in Atlanta, New York,  and Utah, and would win best actor at the Zepstone Film Festival.

This project is near and dear to my heart, as it opens up losing my dad at a young age. Losing my dad had it's impact on me for sure, but something I wanted to explore was the impact it had on my mom. As a white-passing woman, I feel she maybe lost a part of her community which was linked by my Samoan father.

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This film explores the complexities of being a biracial American in modern-society, and the trials of assimilation after a death in the family.

This is one of our earliest projects, but one I felt that many people connected with. The idea of this dramedy came from when I ordered food to eat, and the delivery driver was just a bit too friendly. It almost felt like they were going to come eat dinner with me.

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Taking that idea, and switching the roles, I just let the dialogue sort of naturally flow. What would these character's talk about? How would these strangers speak to each other in such a peculiar set of circumstances? I wanted to escalate the situation without resorting to the usual "this person's a serial killer" cliche, and what came from it was a much deeper and tragic exploration.

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This film was featured at the LDS Film Festival, and resonated with a lot of people who were victims of alcoholism behavior and driving under the influence.