I was born in East Lansing, Michigan to an Austrian father and American mother. I completed my bachelor’s at Kalamazoo College before moving to Germany on a Fulbright Scholarship.
Afterwards I moved to Berlin, where I made a number of short films while working for a variety of film production companies as well as the Wolfgang Pfeiffer Screenwriting School, where I wrote my first feature screenplay, “Old Money,” which was a finalist for the 2010 Sundance Screenwriters Lab.
In 2009 I moved to Los Angeles to start UCLA’s MFA Directing program. I recently completed filming my second UCLA short and am now writing my third feature. In my work I explore how economic relationships and needs challenge personal ones.
I blog about filmmaking, short films, and my experiences at UCLA film school.
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