American director, screenwriter, actor, and producer. Representative works: Everything Beautiful Is Far Away, Jessica, The True Meaning of Tick Bites, etc. In 2017, Everything Beautiful Is Far Away premiered at the Los Angeles International Film Festival and won the Best Cinematography Award in the American Narrative Feature category; in 2022, he won the Grand Jury Prize at the Santa Fe International Film Festival for the film Jessica; his latest 2025 directorial work The True Meaning of Tick Bites was selected for the South by Southwest Film Festival.