A Grieving Heart

Director’s bio:

I am an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. I have been working and teaching in the independent animation field since 2011.

I received a BFA in Painting and BS in Film Production from Boston University. I then moved to New York City and started my career as an editor on Signe Baumane’s feature film “Rocks In My Pockets”. From 2013 to 2018, I worked as the senior producer at indie director Bill Plympton’s studio. Since 2016, I have been teaching animation production, storyboarding, and motion graphics at various CUNY campuses.

I went back to school and completed my MFA at Hunter College’s Integrated Media Arts program in 2025. “A Grieving Heart” is my MFA thesis film.

My first animated short “Pangs” premiered at Slamdance Film Festival in 2016. In 2020, my animated short “My First Sessions” was published by The New Yorker Documentary. I have directed three music videos for Verve Label Group and Decca Records, including “Cheek to Cheek” by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, and “Hope is the Thing with Feathers” by Christopher Tin. I am a two-time recipient of the National Board of Review student grant, and a 2023 winner of the Princess Grace Award in Film and Animation.