Fresh off of two fellowships with Sundance’s prestigious Collab program, I’m currently developing original IP for two distinct narrative projects, each rooted in a different corner of the American working-class experience.

1. Feature-length road-trip love story — It’s 1934, and San Francisco photographer Dorothea Lange is at a crossroads. Sacrificing herself for years to support her artist husband and children as a portrait photographer, making a name for herself as an artist, has remained elusive. When U.C. Berkeley economics professor Paul Taylor invites her to photograph the rise of the migrant labor movement, she sets off on a road trip through the California highways and byways where mutual passions become undeniable and her artistry and purpose find their focus for the first time. But to ignite a revolution through her lens, she must risk everything she holds dear. Part road-trip, part love story, and based on 18 pivotal months in the true story of photographer Dorothea Lange, we experience how a series of courageous acts and the power of the image transform the nation’s compassion for the rural poor and working class. Wanna know more? Request the pitch deck.

2. Limited Series, political thriller, legal drama, buddy picture

   Centered on one of the most iconic political prisoners in American history, Angela Davis’ landmark 1971 court case catalyzed a global movement for First Amendment rights, freedom of speech and awareness around the prison industrial complex. Told through the intimate relationships that sustained Angela—with her sister, Fania Davis (Jordan) and her childhood best friend and attorney, Margaret Burnham, the high stakes legal drama reels out endless cat-and-mouse scenes fought between the people of an expanding grassroots movement and the the Goevernor of California, Ronald Reagan, the Director of the FBI’s Co-Intelligence Program, J.Edgar Hoover and the presidentof teh U.S., Rchard Nixon. Together, these women successfully challenged this system, determined to break them.