VICE NEWS TONIGHT SELECTED WORK
PRODUCER & DIRECTOR
"STAND UP AND KNEEL | FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS”
As Colin Kaepernick's national anthem protest ignited a national debate, a high school football team in Berkeley, California confronted the questions of race, policing, and protest playing out far beyond their field. Filmed over an intensely compressed period, Stand Up and Kneel follows the players as they wrestle with what it means to take a public stand together.
2017 News & Documentary Emmy® nominee for Outstanding Feature in a Newscast
"NO PLACE LIKE HOME"
Adopted from South Korea as a child and raised in Detroit, Shin Song Hyuk grew up believing he was an American citizen. A paperwork failure by his adoptive family left him undocumented and, decades later, facing deportation to a country he could barely remember.
No Place Like Home follows Shin's return to South Korea as he navigates a homeland that is legally his, but culturally and emotionally unfamiliar.
"LIFE AFTER CLEMENCY, ONE YEAR LATER"
After President Barack Obama commuted her sentence, Felicia Smith returned home to rebuild a life interrupted by incarceration. One year later, she was navigating the less visible realities of reentry — finding work, securing housing, returning to school, and reconnecting with family.
This short film stays close to Felicia as she confronts the distance between being granted freedom and building a life on the outside.
"PATTERN RECOGNITION"
As Chicago struggled with one of the country's highest homicide rates, a disturbing pattern emerged: dozens of women had been found murdered, many in similar circumstances, with little public attention and few cases solved.
Pattern Recognition examines the possibility that some of the killings may be connected, following the people trying to understand what the city's unsolved murders reveal about whose deaths receive urgency — and whose do not.