Growing up, I would make home movies, utilizing friends and family as actors. I wrote and directed my first short horror movie when I was 10 years old and, by the age of 18, had completed 7 video productions, ranging from short films, skateboard videos and finally, in my senior year of high school, my first feature-length movie entitled ‘Vietlawn’. This war satire was produced as a passion project wrangling the help of 35 family and friends as actors, filming over a period of 2 months and incorporating the use of many creative solutions for ultra low-budget special effects.

Although Vietlawn is nothing to write home about, I identify this experience as the key turning point in my career pursuits. All plans of pursing a career in engineering vanished overnight as I set my sights on filmmaking.

After graduating high school, I applied to the Film & Video Program at York University. Facing fierce competition, I was one of 62 people to be accepted into the program from an initial group of over 900 candidates. In 2003, I graduated from the film program at York having worked in a variety of crew roles in 20 films and videos, for which 5 of them he wrote and directed.

To this day, writing and directing are my passions within the industry and the career path for which I invest all of my creative energy and artistic vision.