Understanding what resonates emotionally and creating with purpose.
I've been making things with cameras and software for 25 years — from voiceover recordings on 4 continents to ad campaigns for 'Discovery Channel Kids' to social content that somehow made a construction company feel like a community. Self-taught from the beginning, I built a freelance practice that eventually led to being recruited by Disney, and I've been running Experience Media independently ever since. The range has made me adaptable in ways a conventional path probably wouldn't have.
I'm as comfortable on location as I am in post. Whether I'm directing an interview in the field, managing a multi-crew shoot, or editing alone to hit a delivery window, I bring the same self-directed focus to the job. Remote collaboration has been part of my practice for over a decade — I've worked with teams across Canada and the USofA, so distributed workflows and collaborative communication are simply how I operate.
Away from the screen, I'm usually outdoors. Before I became a filmmaker, I was in an Outdoor Guiding program, wilderness first aid, search and rescue, and backcountry leadership. I've hiked the West Coast Trail twice, the Howe Sound Crest Trail, and done multi-night bikepacking expeditions through the Monashees and Manning Park. I built a trail from my backyard up the mountain, where I sit in the forest weekly practicing Shinrin-Yoku (forest bathing). My connection to the trees is what motivates my daily life towards climate action and a desire to heal the broken relationship our culture has with the more-than-human world.
Outside of my landscape photography on Instagram (@experience_media) My @essential.man.living is another visual journal of that relationship with the land, among other thoughts. It also shows up in how I see light, how I think about pacing, and the kind of work I'm most drawn to: stories about things that genuinely matter.
