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Rolling Stone x WIRE: GREY ZONE
Director, DP, Producer | Short film, 2025
Co- Director & Director of Photography | Branded short, Coast Film Festival & web 2025
TikTok helped turn African-grey parrots into worldwide celebrities — and targets. Based on Rene Ebersole’s yearlong investigation for Rolling Stone, this short film uncovers the black-market network of poachers, egg smugglers, and wealthy buyers driving one of the most dangerous wildlife trades on Earth.
Cinematographer | Documentary feature, Apple TV+ 2025
Director of Photography | Documentary feature, Sundance 2024. Streaming on Netflix & Prime, 2025
Director of Photography | Documentary feature, Tribeca 2024. Streaming on PBS POV, 2025
Cinematographer | Feature documentary, Tribeca 2025
Director of Photography | Feature episode, Fault Lines 2025. Emmy-nominated, DART Award-winning.
coming soon…
ARTEMIS
2 part docu-series, feature length
Director of Photography
Fifty years after the Apollo space flights, a new generation at NASA are suiting up for a historic return to the Moon. Named after Greek mythology’s goddess of the Moon, the Artemis program has trailblazing ambitions: a woman will step on the lunar surface for the first time and remain on the moon for up to a week. This longitudinal series for National Geographic will give viewers an all-access pass to this group of pioneering astronauts and their colleagues, documenting every effort, ambition, sacrifice and breakthrough first step.
Director: Jerry Rothwell
Production co: Lightbox, National Geographic
FULL CIRCLE
Feature documentary
Director of Photography
Westbrook Studios and REI Co-op Studios have teamed up to produce a documentary about the first all-Black team, supported by Nepali Sherpas, to summit Mount Everest. Rooted in the story of the Everest ascent and the year of training the climbers underwent as a team, the film’s true emotional anchor is embedded in the individual journeys undertaken by each of the climbers, representing the diversity of the Black experience in the outdoor community.
Directors: Rolake Bamgbose & Justice Whitaker
Production co: REI Studios, Confluential, Westbrook
2026 world premiere, TBA.
THE PEOPLE’S NETWORK
Feature documentary
Director of Photography
Will democracy survive if no one is watching? Almost 50 years ago, C-SPAN revolutionized how everyday Americans connected with their government. Today, this last non-partisan news outlet is struggling to survive, as civic institutions fracture and journalism faces extinctions. This is the story of the fight to save C-SPAN and its evolution from bold experiment to the nation’s most trusted watchdog of American government at work.
Director: Alyse Shorland
Production co: Gusto, independent
in production 2025-present.
