Teaching & Mentoring

With a burning desire to share knowledge and skills, my work extends to the curatorial and educational, as a grassroots organizer and workshop leader of the Vancouver super8 festival Project8, post-sound instructor at Simon Fraser University, media arts instructor at the University of British Columbia in the Okanagan, and since 2016 film instructor, creative development advisor and certificate lead at the Catalyst Institute of Creative Arts and Technology (formerly dBs) in Berlin. As an active community member, I served on the board of directors as well as taught video and audio workshops at the Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto, volunteered and taught audio workshops at VIVO Media Arts, and the FilmArche eV self-organized film school, mentored video artists through the Inside Out Film Festival, the Project8 Boot Camp, the CFC’s Venus Video program, xart splitta! eV and Sonntags Club eV, curated independent film screenings, co-founded the Project8 Film Festival, and served as a collective team member for the entzaubert queer DIY uncommercial film festival for 8 years.

Current Research

The work on the Audiofilm project "Reasons to Scream!" brings together 3 strands of research I've been occupied with since working in the commercial film industry and teaching film and media arts at the post-secondary level:

• The hierarchy of the image-sound relationship - ie; "image is king".
• Exploitative hierarchies of mainstream feature film production.
• Patriarchy in its representation on-screen.

Outside of teaching, I've had several opportunities to share the research associated with the project. Through the process of working on the collaborative aspects of the project, the convergence of the three strands brought up another – the concept of polyvocal storytelling and the question of what happens to the patriarchal 'Gaze' when we remove image from the equation.


PANELS:

• “Reasons to Scream!” LGBTQ+ Music Research Summer School, Humboldt University (Berlin, DE) // July 2025
• “Polyvocal Storytelling in an Audio Film” Multipli-cities Postgraduate Symposium, Catalyst (Berlin, DE) // May 2025
• "What is an Audio Film?" Time Lab Symposium, Manifest:io (Berlin, DE) // Feb. 2023
• "Collaborative Filmmaking vs. Toxic Hierarchies" Film School Network (Lucca, IT) // Nov. 2021
  
• "Film education after #metoo" Film School Network (hosted at Lucca, IT, but held online) // Dec. 2020

WORKSHOPS / CLASSES:

• "Non-hierarchical Filmmaking post #metoo" Radical Film Network (Berlin, DE) Aug. 2021
  
• "Films in and around the #metoo movement" Films That Changed Us seminar stream for 2nd year Film Production students at Catalyst (Berlin, DE) 2019-2025
  
• "Audio Storytelling" course for 2nd year Film Production students at Catalyst (Berlin, DE) 2019-2025