Producer | Director | Writer
My media practice develops public-facing storytelling across documentary and interactive forms, with sustained attention to Canadian identity, environmental activism, and cultural memory.
This work engages the Canadian aporetic condition by tracking how cultural policy environments and institutional narratives shape representation, responsibility, and public memory across Canadian history, multiculturalism, and colonial legacies.
Selected Film and Media Projects
Women of Change: Stories of Activism
Producer – 1999
A one-hour documentary on social movements in Canada and Mexico, with emphasis on the role of women in advancing community-led organizing and social change.
Arbor Alma (“The Giving Tree”) (2008)
Writer, Director, Narrator
Broadcaster: Bravo! Television Network
Short film examining identity formation through sustained dialogue with the natural world, with attention to environmental responsibility and the public pressures that shape sustainability narratives.
Visions from the Wilderness: The Art of Paul Kane (2000)
Producer, Director, Writer
Broadcasters: Bravo!, Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (APTN), ACCESS, Canadian Learning Television (CLT), Saskatchewan Communications Network (SCN), Knowledge Network, Book Television, Biography Channel, TG4 (Ireland),
French-language version: Visions amérindiennes (TFO)
A one-hour television documentary exploring Paul Kane’s romantic-documentary practice
From Field to Studio: The Art of Paul Kane (2000–2006)
Producer, Director, Writer
Multiplatform project developed as an interactive documentary on DVD and a permanent museum exhibit. The project builds from the television documentary interpreting his mid-nineteenth-century paintings of Indigenous peoples and life ways and public-facing interface design.
Greenpeace: Made in Canada (1996)
Producer, Director
Broadcaster: Discovery Channel
National documentary profile tracing the Canadian roots of Greenpeace and its global environmental impact, with attention to environmental activism as public communication shaped by policy context.
C.W. Jefferys: Picturing Canada (2005)
Director, Producer, Co-writer
Broadcasters: Bravo!, TVO, Knowledge Network, SCN
Documentary examining how Jefferys’ historical illustrations shaped public historical consciousness through institutional circulation and visual pedagogy.
Lucky Breaks (2000–2003)
Director, Producer, Writer
Broadcasters: STAR!, CLT, SCN, APTN
Half-hour documentary series (two seasons; 26 episodes) featuring profiles of extraordinary and ordinary Canadians—and others—who tell stories of success and transformation, with attention to how national media systems shape public recognition and cultural visibility.
Green Heroes TV (2007–2019)
Producer, Co-Director
Broadcasters: TVO, Sun TV, SCN
A 12-episode television series and 45 webisode multiplatform environmental campaign centered on the lived experiences of notable environmentalists, including Robert Bateman, Farley Mowat, David Suzuki, and Jane Goodall. The project included an online application developed by the content team, Green Heroes Academy. Green Heroes webisodes
Museum Maestros (2007)
Producer, Director, Narrator
Broadcasters: Bravo!, Knowledge, SCN, ACCESS, CLT
A one-hour arts documentary that treats museums as living media for the twenty-first century. Following museum experts Gail Dexter Lord and Barry Lord, the film moves through exhibition projects and cultural sites around the world to show how museums translate culture, identity, and memory into public experience through planning, curation, and interpretive design.
Connecting Film to Critical Inquiry
These projects function as case studies in how Canadian cultural discourse organizes identity, history, and responsibility through institutional storytelling and media representation.
