MISS
TRT 7 min, 2025
It's been four days since Sophie came out as trans to her partner Jess. Miss finds these two driving to a gas station in the middle of nowhere, so Sophie can take her first steps into society as a woman.
“The love between Jess and Sophie is palpable and carries Miss so movingly that it almost feels devastating when the film ends.”
SCREENINGS & AWARDS
Raindance (World Premiere)
Rooftop Films
Greenpoint Film Festival
Newfest
New Orleans Film Festival
Montclair Film Festival
Babyteeth
London Short Film Festival
Athena Film Festival
THE ACT OF COMING OUT
TRT 11 min, 2022
A group of queer and trans actors in Los Angeles audition for the lead role in a film about the quintessential coming out experience.
“As each actor ‘auditions,’ they invariably draw on their personal experiences, sometimes re-creating their own coming-out stories. The fusion of real life and performance creates an uncanny emotional resonance; the actors’ biographies lend their scenes gravitas. We’re left to parse which tears and trepidations feel genuine, and measure them up against our own.”
Screenings & Awards
Athens International Film & Video Festival (World Premiere, Nominee: Best Documentary Short, Winner: Special Jury Mention) Independent Film Festival Boston 2022 (Official Selection, Nominee: Best Short Documentary)
San Francisco Documentary Film Festival
HollyShorts
Flickers’ Rhode Island International Film Festival
Hot Documentary Film Festival Springs
Montclair Film Festival
Cucalorus
Vimeo Staff Pick 2022
AND THEN I WAS HERE
TRT 13 min, 2023
Birth as seen through the eyes of a child in the future.
“The film itself has a shapeshifting aspect ratio that raises questions on its own about a broad cultural desire to place people in a box, but the portrait that emerges renders such inclination meaningless, channeling the universal anxieties of expecting a newborn and the indescribable sense of wonder”
Screenings & Awards
Miami Film Festival (World Premiere) - Nominee, Best International Short Documentary)
San Francisco International Film Festival (SFFILM) - Nominee, Best Documentary Short , Copresented by Frameline
Independent Film Festival of Boston (IFFBoston)
New Orleans Film Festival
Cucalorus Film Festivals
DOCNYC
LIGHT SLEEPERS
TRT 9 min, 2022
Beginning at 3 a.m., a ten-year-old child works alongside adult crab fishermen on a San Francisco boat, moving through twelve unbroken hours on the Pacific.
A film by Alexandra Stergiou & Kyle Myers-Haugh
Made as part of Stanford University's Documentary MFA Program.