Documentary maker, media teacher

I'm an award-winning documentary filmmaker and Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs at The George Washington University.

My first feature, LET THE FIRE BURN, reconstructs the 1985 MOVE fire in Philadelphia entirely from archival sources. It premiered at Tribeca Film Festival and won the Film Independent Spirit Truer than Fiction Award.

WHO KILLED ALEX ODEH? (co-directed with William Lafi Youmans) investigates the unsolved 1985 assassination of a Palestinian-American activist. It won the U.S. Documentary Special Jury Prize for Journalistic Excellence at the Sundance Film Festival.

I teach courses in media making and documentary and have also created online courses for LinkedIn Learning, including Premiere Pro: Documentary Editing. I’ve been named one of Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces.