I am a director and editor with broad ranging experience in documentaries, narrative, commercial, music videos, and commissioned work.
This site highlights my editing which is my primary focus and goal for freelance work, particularly in documentary. I love cutting any genre though, and I also freelance as a director and cinematographer, so I’ve featured my work in those roles on this site as well, and there is some overlap with my editing work. My company is Outsideinside.
Documentary Editor
Selected Recent Works
My Dad’s Tapes
82 Minutes
A trove of home video tapes spurs a filmmaker to investigate repressed parts of his past and come to terms with his own identity. A search for the cause of his father’s sudden suicide turns into a cathartic journey of reconnection and healing.
#11 Audience Choice, Hot Docs International Film Festival
Best Feature Documentary, North East International Film Festival
Personal Narrative Award, Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival
Emergine Filmmaker Award, Awareness Festival Los Angeles
Power of the Walk
17 Minutes
A determined 15-year-old, guided by her supportive mother, challenges the fashion industry’s norms and confronts ableism as she breaks barriers on the runway, helping to redefine beauty and advocate for inclusivity.
Doc NYC World Premiere 2024
Kirby’s House
17 Minutes
With helpful neighbours and a unique support network, Kirby, who has an intellectual disability, lives on his own and is thriving in his quaint small-town home.
Reframe International Film Festival World Premiere 2024
Featured in POV Magazine
Town of Widows
87 Minutes
Widows and workers in the “Electric City” of Peterborough, Ontario, fight for justice in a system stacked against them.
CBC Docs POV
Best Documentary and Audience Choice Awards at Canadian Labour International Film Festival
The Monarch Ultra
An inspiring adventure that follows along with the team and runners that create and execute the epic Monarch Ultra relay – a 4,200 km ultra-run through North America, mimicking the migration path of the Monarch butterfly.
A Certain Texture
9 Minutes
Alex Unger, aka ELMS, lives a double life: he creates haunting music, and farms cattle. In this short, he explores how one influences the other, what drives his art, and how one of these lifestyles is more of a privilege than he thought.
Re-Settled
15 Minutes
This documentary sensitively shows a glimpse into the lives of two Syrian refugee families living in Canada, and we see how they are thriving in their new homes with the help of some folks who sponsored them, and that have helped give them a community to lean on in what can be a very difficult process.
Gitigaan: Spotted Earth
7 Minutes
“Gitigaa” is the Anishinaabe word for “spots”. When you add the letter “n” to the end, it becomes connected to the land. “Garden” is gitigaan, or spots on the land, each spot being recognized as its own ecosystem. The Gitigaan Project began as a space for growing food, but has evolved into a multi-dimensional site where Anishinaabe history is explored, an understanding of traditional food is revealed, and the importance of integrating Indigenous knowledge and language in the everyday is examined.
Last Beer At The Pig’s Ear
90 Minutes
Celebrate the last hoorah at the Pig’s Ear – watering hole, community centre, classroom, concert venue, too-good time. The legendary tavern kept its doors open for 152 years, welcoming an eclectic mix of characters; musicians, community organizers, students, professors and blue collar workers. This touching portrait chronicles the final months of the tavern, a window into the warmth and spirit of the owners, staff and patrons.
Best Documentary, Hollywood Independent Film Festival
Before We Arrive: The Story of the Weber Brothers
60 Minutes
Ryan and Sam Weber are extremely talented, hard-working, storied musicians, who struggle to define success – a confusing and elusive concept for any artist. Their journey to this point has provided them with countless opportunities to learn more about themselves and what really matters in life. Their career has been both rewarding, and punishing. With archival footage dating back to their beginnings, and interviews with the brothers, their band, and a selection of their myriad of musical peers, we see why they remain optimistic. The Weber Brothers don’t get tied up in the tediousness of striving for fame, fortune, or mainstream success. For the Weber Brothers, it is simply about making music.
Best Documentary, Toronto Independent Film Festival
Other editing work
Selected works that aren’t strictly documentary films
