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Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Hololabs is a creative technology studio and solutions partner, bringing interactive, immersive experiences to life with a focus on user engagement and play. Rooted in video game development, we’ve evolved to lead in immersive entertainment, location-based experiences, and emerging media like virtual and augmented reality. Collaboration is central to our approach; we team up with visionary partners to solve challenges, explore new ideas, and create experiences that resonate with audiences worldwide.

I produce and direct interactive documentaries, films and immersive media. I also consult and produce for a variety of clients.

Surrey, British Columbia, Canada

As the recipient of a prestigous Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship, I am researching how interactive documentaries can increase critical data literacy. My work is centered at the Making Culture Lab at the School of Interactive Art &Technology at Simon Fraser University.

I teach an upper-level undergraduate course: Networking, New Media & Social Practices

Consulting with Harmony's network of media makers and researchers to ensure the work they produce achieves the change they imagine.

Writing and development on Space Explorers: The ISS Experience, the Emmy-award winning series documenting a year aboard the International Space Station. Filmed in 360 VR in co-production with TIME.

Writer, Director, Editor and Producer of The Internet of Everything, a TV hour documentary and web series in co-production with CBC Television and Arte France.

I collaborated with Mozilla's executive team to design and implement a media grants program that leveraged Mozilla's unique brand and expertise. In partnership with Open Society Foundation and the NetGain coalition, we commissioned a variety of web projects and fueled a movement of media makers aligned with Mozilla's vision for a healthy Internet. Examples include Public By Default, a commissioned art piece to expose Venmo's data practices, and Privacy Not Included, a partnership with Univision Media that generated 2.57 million video views and formed the basis of a 2018 main stage TED Talk.

As a senior leader of Mozilla's advocacy team, I worked with a cross disciplinary team developing Mozilla's voice as an advocacy organization. Managing a team of developers, designers, communications professionals and marketers, I oversaw media campaigns for Mozilla's owned social media channels as well as press and earned media. Our team commissioned over $2 million of external funding for interactive, VR and AR work within the Internet Health network. This media work was seen by millions online and exhibited at the Tribeca Film Festival, The Venice Biennale, Sheffield Doc/Fest, Open City Documentary Festival, Patchlab Festival Krakow and Art Center Nabi in South Korea. In this role I curated the traveling version of The Glass House with Berlin’s Tactical Technology Collective, a DIY gallery exhibition prototyped at popups in London and New York.

I served on the board of Canada's leading digital rights organization

I was the Director, Showrunner and associate producer of a 7 part interactive documentary series about privacy and the web economy. I conceived of the original idea and brought the original partnership team (Arte, National Film Board of Canada, Bayerscher-Rundfunk) together. I've written all the scripts, performed voiceovers, and was the editor of all episodes. I interviewed all the principal characters of the series.Do Not Track was awarded the 2016 Peabody Award, the Prix Gemaux, the International Documentary Association Award, the Deutscher Prize, and the Association of International Broadcasters award. It was a nominee for the Canadian Screen Awards, the Prix Europa, and the Grimme factual award. Do Not Track screened at the Tribeca Film Festival, the Sheffield Documentary Film Festival, the Rencontres International du Documentaire and the International Documentary Festival of Amsterdam.

Led 30-person team creating software tools to help everyone be a producer of the web, including the ground breaking authoring tool Popcorn, dubbed “The Future of Online Video” by WIRED and integrated into production at The Guardian, BBC, PBS NewsHour, Wikipedia and The Internet Archive

As employee #1, I performed roles as editor, director and Head of New Media. I edited 5 feature films and helped grow the company into Canada's most respected documentary production house.In 2008, I released my first feature documentary, Rip! A Remix Manifesto, about copyright and creativity. The film was nominated by the Canadian Academy of Motion Picture Scienes for Best Documentary, and won audience choice awards at dozens of film festivals around the glove. It had theatrical runs in the United States, Canada, and Australia, and was broadcast in more than 20 countries. It is viewable online on Netflix, Hulu, Pitchfork TV, and on the National Film Board of Canada's website, where it is one of their most watched films of all time.At EyeSteel, I co-founded the first website by and for the homeless - Homeless Nation. In the days prior to smartphones, Youtube and Facebook, our organization did direct street outreach to homeless shelters, squats and parks. We recorded video testimonials, helped users create a profile, and encouraged them to blog and connect with other users.Homelessnation.org was awarded the e-Inclusion and Participation award from the UN World Summit awards, the 2008 Society for New Communications Research award, and two Canada New Media awards.

Montreal, Quebec, Canada

I was a co-director and editor of Inuuvunga: I am Inuk, I am Alive. Over several years, I visited the Nunavik village of Inukjuak to co-create a film with students in their final year of high school.

Galiano Island, Bc

I was a co-founder of this award winning film boot camp for teenagers. I started the computer animation program, and also taught drama and documentary courses. We worked with young people to write, direct, animate and act in their own productions.We offered special intensive programs for street youth, queer youth, and indigenous youth.