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I’m a Full Professor of Film at William Paterson University in NJ, where I’ve been teaching for over 25 years.

 

In 2025 I was honored to receive an Individual Artist Fellowship from the NJ State Council on the Arts.
 

I earned my MFA at NYU’s Graduate Film Program, where I was mentored by Spike Lee and Julie Taymor.
 

My first feature film, Asbury Park, won the Gordon Parks Award for Directing and premiered at Lincoln Center.
 

My second feature, Bellclair Times, won the Newark Black Film Festival Prize, and my short films have screened at international festivals.
 

For the past 18 years, I’ve also served as a Pro Bono Attorney for a domestic violence organization, which recognized me in 2022 with their “Partner in Hope” Award for my work inside and outside the courtroom.