I’ve made films like Dark My Light, currently being distributed by Ethos Releasing, and Genoa, which is a surrealist take on fatherhood, political anxieties, and ghosts.

I'm prepping two new projects, both spiritual follow-ups to Genoa forming something like a

thematic and anxious trilogy. Fulfillment is Fleeting and Completion Doesn’t Exist is a hybrid

doc-fiction drama that will span multiple years in production. No Witches is a comedy about art, fatherhood, and marriage. Together these form a new wave of filmmaking for me - dads in some kind of existential trouble with a genre and documentary edge.

My screenplays have placed in the Academy Nicholl Fellowship, Slamdance, American

Zoetrope, and Austin. I've had projects at the Torino Film Lab "Next" Section and in many genre labs, including NAFF at BiFan and Blood Window.

I've taught screenwriting, directing, producing, and film analysis at universities in Pennsylvania, New York, and the Czech Republic. I’m a co-founder of the Wandering Cinema Film Retreat with my wife Kat and our friend Mika, and I'm also a mentor at the m2 Film Lab in Istanbul, Turkey.

I love teaching like I love filmmaking. I’m an Assistant Professor of Directing at Temple

University, and prior to that I taught at Prague Film School. My main areas of focus are blocking techniques and working with actors. Anytime I get the chance to shoot celluloid, I take it! I love film history and cinema studies, too, which I blog about as often as I can.

Alongside my film work, I'm a father, runner, scotch enthusiast, music lover with no talent for

music, and baseball fan. Whether doing some or none of these, I like to spend time with Kat, our kids Petra and Nihal, and our dog Ike.

Feature Films

Short Films

Rat

2021

Together

2020

The Well

2019

Music Videos

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don't sail academy

Reel Characters

Bob Gentile

Nerves

Nervous Nikki and the Chill Pills