Distribution Strategist & Impact Director

Helping documentary filmmakers navigate creative distribution

Building partnerships between documentary filmmakers and organizations on screening events that bridge divides

 

Recent Documentary Film Impact Campaigns

  • Roleplay (SXSW 2024) - Distribution & Impact Director, Feb 2025-Present

  • Bad Press (Sundance 2023) - Distribution & Impact Director, Jun 2024-Present

  • The Negotiator (2025) - Distribution & Impact Director, Dec 2024-Present

  • No Matter What (ReelRecovery 2023) - Impact Campaign Director, Apr 2023-Present

  • Home is a Hotel (SFFILM 2023) - Impact Director, Jun 2023-Apr 2024

  • 26.2 to Life (DOC NYC 2022) - Marketing Director, Oct 2023

  • Mama Has a Mustache (Mountainfilm 2021) - Partnerships Director, Aug 2022-May 2023

  • Safe Sets (2023) - Impact Consultant, Feb-May 2023

  • Momentum (2022) - Impact Director, Feb-Apr 2023

  • River’s End (2022) - Woodpecker Consultant w/ Nick Kelso, Feb 2023

  • This Might Hurt (2020) - Impact Producer, Apr 2021-Jan 2022

First Vote (2020)

Dir. Yi Chen / C35 Films (60 mins / USA)

First Vote provides unparalleled access to a diverse cross-section of four politically engaged Chinese Americans in battleground states.

Film Festivals: AFI DOCS, CAAMFest, Hot Springs, Los Angeles Asian American, Hawaii International, Austin Asian American, Silicon Valley Asian Pacific, Boston Asian American, and more.

Plus dozens of community screenings and panels; PBS America ReFramed/ WORLD Channel national broadcast; GOOD DOCS educational distribution; #YourVote2020 impact campaign for increasing civic engagement amongst Asian Americans in battleground states.

 

Motherland (2019)

Dirs. Emily Mkrtichian and Jesse Soursourian (19 mins / Armenia)

Motherland follows a group of women who work full-time as land mine clearance officers in Nagorno-Karabakh, a disputed territory between Armenia and Azerbaijan, known for one of the worst land mine problems in the world.

Film Festivals: Full Frame, Camden, Big Sky, Hot Springs, Bend, DC Shorts, Brooklyn, Scandinavian International, Aesthetica, Copenhagen, and more.

Plus a dozen community screenings, including five in Nagorno-Karabakh; $10,000 raised for Women Entrepreneur Fund; Best Documentary Short award at Copenhagen Film Festival.

 

Trouble Finds You (2019)

Dir. Stephanie Tangkilisan (23 mins / USA)

Trouble Finds You follows a Bronx native who gets caught up in the largest gang bust in history and spends 22 months in jail before being released on time served.

Film Festivals: Reel Sisters of the Diaspora, Worker’s Unite, (In)Justice for All, Justice on Trial, Chain NYC, and more.

Plus 20-page discussion guide available with community screenings; Film was produced with The Intercept and was released with this in-depth article about the RICO Act and the Bronx 120.

 

No Place to Grow (2019)

Dir. Michelle Aguilar (26 mins / USA)

No Place to Grow documents a group of Latino farmers fighting to save a 20-year old community garden.

Film Festivals: Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, Colorado Environmental, Watsonville, and more.

The film is available for educational and community screenings.

 

RETURN (2018)

Dir. Karen Cantor/ Singing Wolf Documentaries (28 mins / USA)

RETURN follows six courageous Native American women from tribes across the continent reconnect with the earth and reclaim their health and spirit by following their ancestral foodways. 

Film Festivals: Santa Fe, London International Short, Santa Barbara International, Vision Maker, and more.

Plus dozens of community screenings; Broadcast on Vision Maker Media in association with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting; 13-page press kit, outreach materials, and poster available with film now out of DVD.

 

City of Trees (2015)

Dir. Brandon Kramer / Meridian Hill Pictures (76 mins / USA)

During the recession, City of Trees follows three trainees and the director of a stimulus-funded green job-training program designed to put unemployed people back to work by planting trees in DC.

Film Festivals: Full Frame, Hot Springs, American Conservation, St. Louis International, Chesapeake, Annapolis, Environmental Film Festival in the Nation's Capital, Yale Environmental, Princeton Environmental, and more. 25+ film festivals.

Plus 75+ educational and community-based screenings; Raised $20,000 through educational DVD sales and dozens of coordinated filmmaker speaking engagements; PBS America ReFramed/ WORLD Channel national broadcast; Generated dozens of press, academic, and community member reviews; Educational distribution through Cinema Guild. Netflix VOD launch; 28-page discussion guide available with screening kit.