In June of 2011 I moved to New York City with my closest friend and film partner to make a documentary at a school in Harlem, New York. Over the next year I will be documenting “The Turnaround” at the new Harlem Prep Charter School. Mandated to close after failing its students for a decade, [...]
I’m in LA working on my latest project. I’m shooting a national commercial on the Paramount lot, the commercial airs on November 1st. Larger post with more pictures and info to come! My thanks to my friend Elizabeth Brissenden for taking the Green Screen Photo!
I know the posting of this video is little late, but my site is a celebration of all the cool shit my friends do, so I had to post, although I am a little late. My friend Asher Roth put the video for his recent single “Last Man Standing” featuring Akon out in September. [...]
I find something so powerful with documentary films. I have always been more drawn to imagery when being told a story, and documentaries do this, they don’t just tell you the story they show it to you. “Documentary producer Jay Shapiro tells the story of Uganda’s Little League team, which qualified for the Little World [...]
Here is episode 2 of Pac Div: The Series, shot and produced by my talented friend Brandon Cruz. In this episode, PAC DIV performs in Atlanta with N.E.R.D. Watch as Pac Div rocks the stage and tells an inspiring story of how they met and worked with one of the most influential producers in the [...]
My great friend Brandon Cruz has put out his first episode of his new web show being on tour with Pac Div. I must say this content is beautiful and compelling and his skill as film maker, documentarian, and story teller are precise. For me to watch his success has been a thrill and recently [...]
I have an intense love for short films and when I get the opportunity to act in good ones I always take them. The fact that you can put together a story with a full arc in 1 to 20 minutes has always been amazing to me. I recently starred in a 5 minute short [...]
As some of you may know I recently moved out to New York City to shoot my first feature length documentary film. Myself and my partner Greg are shooting a film about the first charter to charter turnaround to ever happen in New York. For the next year we will go inside the building of [...]
Yes I act, so I had to update the reel.
Yes, the homie Brandon Cruz and I went to SXSW, and yes we documented some incredible footage. Here is some of that footage from our press access at The Fader Fort of Odd Future performing “Sandwiches”. Brandon Cruz again shot this and again captured some incredible footage. Cruz and I have some incredible things in [...]