Film has long been a universal language with incredible potential to inspire us, expand us and communicate to our deepest levels no matter what part of the planet we may inhabit.

When confronted with great storytelling, we become the recipient of a gift that brings forth some kind of alteration and transformation within us. We are not the same person after walking out of the movie hall. Something lingers, something prods, something gestates and invariably gives us a glimpse of our breadth and our depth.

I see myself as a global inhabitant and hungry to be a part of a world community of storytellers contributing to our collective verse. I formed A Light In The Universe Filmworks to invest my creative energies to innovate and craft stories that impact and affect us in deep and significant ways.

College. Pick political science as my major but take electives in film, art and theatre. The love affair begins.

Post college. Short stint on capital hill to make use of my degree. No dice. Move back home. Need a job.

Destiny calls. Friend of my old man gives me a job making a documentary on a local politician. Go to local library each evening and read every book I can on the film industry. Eight months pass. Tell parents moving to New York City to work in the film industry. They are amazingly supportive. The day I leave, mom gives me words of advice that I have never forgotten.

While looking for an apartment I see the crew of New York Undercover shooting. With stealth I follow them back to the studio and memorize door code. Continue to sneak on set and act busy. Luckily no one calls the cops. Soon become a familiar face. I work hard, get other non-paying gigs and make connections.

Finally get a paying gig on some show called the Sopranos. Next few years move between NYC and Hollywood working in production on A Perfect Murder, Substance of Fire, Phoenix, and Deep Impact.

I go international working in India on Kama Sutra directed by Mira Nair and Fire directed by Deepa Mehta.

Land in Chicago producing Budweiser commercials for DDB. 2 years. Also worked with hospitalized children making films with Snow City Arts. 6 years.

Currently, an adjunct in the film program at Columbia College.

And currently making more films.