Gone indie in NoLA

writer. filmmaker. bookworm. terrible cook. fantastic supporter of my talented friends.

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Erin and Marcos, getting sweet Kaili ready for her scene!

photo credit: Hunter Thomas IG: hunterthomasphotography

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Working with my wonderful actors, Audrey and Artemis.

photo credit: Hunter Thomas IG: @hunterthomasphotography

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Behind the scenes on “Regret” - Kim, our producer, talks me out of having a complete meltdown on day 3. Her pep talks are sneaky, they don’t feel like therapy, but that’s what they are!

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The poem is a physical process, is bodily exercise: rhymes become the mental resting places: rhymes become the mental resting places in the ascending rhythmic stairway of memory. The poem perhaps is an idealization, or a dream of the physical–the imagined healthy form. Yet it does not renounce illness; rather, it reinterprets it as the beginning point for healing. I wonder, then, whether poetry might also be therapeutic. Many of my friends, especially my colleagues in medicine, have teased me for believing in the curative power of words, joking that I should write some doggerel on my prescriptions instead of the names of medications and directions for their use. If poetry is made of breath, or the beating heart, then surely it is not unreasonable to think it might reach those places in the bodies of its audience, however rarefied. Moreover, I joke back, I have never seen a poem cause fulminant liver failure or bone marrow toxicity, even a really bad one.

Rafael Campo, from: “AIDS and the Poetry of Healing” (via learningfromthehands-blog)

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We are so, so close to locking picture and sending this out to festivals!!

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Me, directing my latest short film, REGRET. I also wrote the screenplay, which is based on the same-titled short story by Kate Chopin.