filmography & C.V.

Education

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA)

Class of 2016

History, B.A.

Xicana/o Studies, B.A.

Filmography

Untold: Gilbert Arenas & Javaris Crittenton (Forthcoming, 2024) Netflix documentary.

The Untold story surrounding one of the biggest controversies in the NBA about guns, gambling, and innocence lost.

Role: 1st AC.

The Sky and All of Its Friends (Forthcoming, 2024) - Feature, 84 min.

The feature-length directorial debut of Walter Thompson-Hernandez. Shot entirely in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Role: 2nd Unit Director of Photography.

Blue Lips - ScHoolboy Q (2024) Music Video.

Role: 1st AC.

Salvi Los Angeles (2024) - 5 Episode Series.

Karla T. Vasquez, food writer and author, takes us across the Salvadoran culinary landscape in a series of intimate portraits and interviews of chefs, street vendors, coffee roasters, and mixologists.

Role: Story Producer / Camera / Editor.

V.S.O.P. Hennessy (2023) Ad.

Role: Director of Photography.

Carlos Vela | The Balance of Vela (2023) Ad.

Role: 2nd AC.

Little Mermaid X McDonald’s (2023) Ad.

Role: Camera Utility.

If I Go Will They Miss Me (2022) - 13 min.

Winner of the Sundance Grand Jury Prize.

Written and Directed by Walter Thompson-Hernandez. The story of a father and son and the real and imagined mythologies that surround them in the Imperial Courts neighborhood in Los Angeles.

Role: 1st AC.

Spirit in the Room - Sunset Nightmare (2020).

Music video.

Role: Director of Photography.

The Jackie Rice Story (2019) - TBD.

Documentary about the life of Jackie Rice, and women like her, who were born during WWII to Japanese mothers and Black US Servicemen. The documentary follows the women coming to terms with the shame, grief, and brutality of Japanese racism that lead to the drowning of children in the River of Tears in the 1940s.   

Role: Director of Photography & Editor. 

The Boulet Brothers Dragula (2019) - 1hr episodes. Streaming on Shudder.

An underground drag show competition with horror, glam, & filth as its main tenets. 11 contestants must outperform and outdo each other as the series combines RuPaul’s Drag Race with Fear Factor. 

Role: Camera Operator.

La Diaspora (2017) - 7min.

Short-form film/music video shot on location in Cancun, Mexico. An expansive visual autobiography of Nitty Scott’s indigenous roots with a hip-hop soundtrack.

Role: Editor.

Flood Relief For Louisiana (2017) - 6min.

Short form documentary. Traveling down to Baton Rouge, LA the Tzu Chi organization followed up with flood relief victims of the August 2016 flooding that damaged homes, and personal property, and caused rampant homelessness. Tzu Chi documented the progress made by Baton Rouge residents in the 8 months since the flooding.

Role: Producer/Director of Photography.

Mary-Lou’s Treasure (2017) - 8min.

Short-form narrative film. Mary-Lou battles for her life when heavy flooding engulfs her Iowa home, while her only child, Larry, is miles away and unable to help his mother during her darkest hour. Inspired by a true story of the emotional roller coaster that families impacted by a natural disaster suffer through. 

Role: Producer.

Under Construction (2015) — 12min.

Documentary about discriminatory practices by the City of Los Angeles towards Black construction workers discovered and tackled by the Black Workers Center. 

Role: Director of Photography. Editor. 

Aqui Estoy - A Testament of Survival​ (2014) 9min 

A documentary centered on the first-person account of Laura Fuentes, who was going blind while escaping the death squads in El Salvador and Guatemala.

Role: Producer/DP/Editor.