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Filmmaking and Screenwriting

93-page screenplay “Hanging Gardens of the Sea and Sky,” 2021

Top 10 Feature Screenplays, Francis Ford Coppola’s American Zoetrope, 2023

Top 10 Feature Length Screenplays, Nantucket Film Festival Tony Cox Award, 2022

Finalist, Flickers Road Island, 2022

Finalist, Cordillera International Film Festival, 2022

Honorable Mention: The Art of Brooklyn, 2021

Quarter-finalist: Sedona International Film Festival, 2021

Nominee: Maverick Movie Awards, 2021

Official Selection: International Film Festival of Wales Daffodil List, 2021

Official Selection: UK Film Festival, 2021

Semi-Finalist: Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival, 2021

Official Selection: Beyond the Curve Film Festival, Paris, 2021

Official Selection: Georgia Shorts Film Festival, USA, 2021

91-page screenplay “The Weather Just Got Sexy,” 2023

Winner, Best Comedy Screenplay: Berlin Independent Film Festival, 2024

Winner, Best International Screenplay: New Renaissance Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2023

Finalist: Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival, 2023

2nd Place: Visionfest Screenwriting Competition, 2023

Semi-Finalist: BlueCat Screenplay Competition, 2023

Quarter-Finalist: Sedona International Film Festival, 2023

23 minute film We Are Bleach, 2022

Produced by Poodle Owl Productions, Producer Cyndie Bellen-Berthézène

Winner, Best Short Film: Berlin Independent Film Festival, 2024

Winner, Best LGBT+ Short: Golden State Film Festival, 2023

Winner, Best LGBT+ Short: London Independent Film Festival, London, 2022

Winner, Emerging Talent: New Renaissance Film Festival, London, 2022

Winner, Best Indie Short: New Renaissance Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2022

Winner, Audience Choice Award, The Artists Forum Festival of the Moving Image, New York, 2022

Official Selection, Montauk Film Festival, 2022

Berlin TV Series Festival, Short Films Corner, 2022

Directorial debut: 24 minute film Inevitability, 2021

Winner, Outstanding Editing: The Art of Brooklyn, 2021

Produced by Poodle Owl Productions, Producer Cyndie Bellen-Berthézène

Honorable Mention: New Wave Short Film Festival, Munich, 2021

Finalist: Beyond the Curve International Film Festival, Paris, 2021

Semi-Finalist: Madrid Film Awards, 2021

FLICKFAIR Film Festival, 2022

18-page screenplay “We Are Bleach,” 2021

Semi-Finalist: HollyWood Just4Shorts Film and Screenplay Competition, 2021

Official Selection: Beyond the Curve International Film Festival, 2021


87 page screenplay “My World At Night,” 2019, ISA Table Read My Screenplay Top 100 Dramas, 2020


10-page screenplay “Feel Nothing Inc.” 2021

Writer/Director: Trip the Bite Fantastic (3 minute film), 2021

Writer/Director: The Moon & Back (3 minute musical film), 2020

86 page screenplay “Marcy Park,” 2018


Fine Art

“Pet Shop” photograph featured in Holiday Art Show at Gallery Onetwentyeight, 2022

If You’re Enveloped in a Huge Pain in the Ass, then Definitely Don’t Let it Get You Down, Baby, 6’ x 5’, watercolor, ink, marker and colored pencil on paper, 2021

Solo Exhibition “Inevitability“, artsy.com, 2020

Artsy.com, “As The World Turns – 21 Artists in Support of Time In,” 2020

Adult Contemporary, series of works on paper, 2020-2021

Happy New Year, Doctor Zhivago, series of works on paper, 2020

The Film Series (2018-2019), Watercolors, solo exhibition, The Picturehouse Crouch End, London, October-December 2019

Pret-a-Spring 2019, series of watercolors, 2019

“Spirits of the Dead,” Horror Film Homage, Gallery Sorath, Kyoto, Japan, 2018

Video performance piece “An Evening With Del Shannon,” 2017 

“I Enjoy the Quiet Life” featured in Changing the World through Art gala at Marianne Boesky Gallery, Chelsea (in private collection of Jill Ellis), 2014

Work featured in Haunch of Venison, Chelsea: Changing the World through Art gala (in private collection of Helene Safdie and Ira Levy), 2013

Work featured in Haunch of Venison, Chelsea: Changing the World through Art gala (in private collection of Catharine Nepomnyashchy), 2012

Video performance piece “The Liz,” 2012

Exhibition of works with Johana Skalsky at the HiArt! gallery, Chelsea (in private collection of Alexandre Tilmant), 2011

Work featured in Haunch of Venison, Chelsea: Changing the World through Art gala  (in private collection of Stage Presence), 2011

Video performance piece “Bonbel,” 2011


Graphic Novels, Comics & Manga

52 page graphic novel “London Michael Magnolia,” 2018

32 page manga, “Llambada!!” 2018

16 page manga “Yasagure Club,” 2018

4 page manga “Ponko’s Situation,” 2018

Comic strips “Truly, Madly, Deeply…Allergic” and “The Sphinxes of Philosopher’s Path: The Return of Dr. Meowsmer,” 2018

Comic strip “The Sphinxes of Philosopher’s Path,” 2017

4 page manga “An Idol Waxing Philosophical,” 2015

6 page manga “Scrambled Flowers,” 2015

8 page manga “Alright, I’m a Praying Mantis Can We Get This Done?,” 2015

8 page manga “The Dream House,” 2015

Comic strip “Love & Secrets” parts 1&2, 2015

8 page manga “Today’s Strawberry is Tomorrow’s Jam,” 2014

8 page manga “Dreams of Naïs,” 2014 

8 page manga “Fashion Advice for Loose Men,” 2014 

17 page English language manga “Calcium,” 2013 

9 page art comic “The Valhalla of Harpootle” (private collection of Susan & Marvin Numeroff), 2013

8 page art comic “Jazz Musician,” 2012

17 page English language manga “Slow Motion,” 2012

11 page art comic “Melisande,” 2011


Publications

Cover and supplementary illustrations, Seika University Gag Manga Department Graduation Works Digest, 2019

Illustration featured in Average Art Magazine issue 20, 2018 

Illustration featured in A5 Magazine issue 12, 2018

Promotional illustration for The Time In Children's Arts Initiative DreamFest with Alice Coote, Joyce DiDonato and Bryan Wagorn, 2018

Illustration featured in Wotisart Magazine issue 13, 2018

Illustrations featured in MIM Magazine, issue 1, 2017

Illustration for promotional materials and website for Puccini with Passion, private charity event featuring opera stars Ailyn Perez & Brian Jagde, 2017

Promotional illustration for Shop 'till You Drop, HiArt Kids, 2017

Cover illustration for “Happiness is Luxury” Zine, vol. 1, 2015

Illustration featured in Hell Bitches 666 Zine, vol. 3, 2015

Illustration featured in Hell Bitches 666 Zine, vol. 2, 2014

Illustrations for Metropolis by Martine Bellen, from the poetry collection Wabac Machine (Furniture Press Books), 2013


Songwriting

Lyrics for Confidence Man and False Sense of Security, music by Oliviero Forni, original songs for We Are Bleach, 2021

Lyrics and vocals for Poison and Gasoline, music by Oliviero Forni, 2021

15 songs co-written and performed with Ian Dench as Zoë & The Green Bombs, 2022

Education

London Film School, London (2020-2021)

Postgraduate Certificate in Filmmaking

Kyoto Seika University, Japan (2014-2019)

BA, Gag Manga (comedy-based comic and graphic novels)

School of Visual Arts, New York (2011-12)

Undergraduate Cartooning/Visual and Critical Studies Department

Honors Program, Deans List


Skills

Screenwriting, directing, storyboarding, lyricist, watercolor artist, manga artist, Japanese language N2, graphic novelist, illustration