32 years old and not a baby in sight.  I  am an expert in reproductive procrastination. Raised beside an artifical lake in an exotic Calgary suburb, I earned a BSc. from the University of Calgary. Ignoring my mother’s advice to become a doctor I went onto study film and television. 

My first documentary—Kilimanjaro the Journey, found me training two women to mountain climb and then following them, camera in tow, all the way to the top of Africa’s tallest peak. Good thing Africa is a pretty flat continent. Driven to collaborate with international television and filmmakers, I then moved to Paris, France to work with Pilot Productions U.K to produce episodes of the Globe-trekker (formally Lonely Planet) travel show. Eventually tiring of fine cheese and good wine and missing the hot Calgary arts scene, I returned to Canada in 2004.  Since then, I have worked in reality television and made several short films. My dance film CEA was selected as a top ten Alberta short, was nominated for three Alberta Motion Picture Association awards and played on CBC and in several film festivals around the world.  I also recently produced and directed an animated co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, the Banff Centre and Bravo television titled Aboriginality. Aboriginality was nominated for awards at the 2007 Calgary International Film Festival and the 2007 Winnipeg Aboriginal Film Festival, the Yorkton Film Festival and for three Alberta Motion Picture Awards including Best Director and took home the award for best animation. I returned to my documentary roots in 2007 to make a film for VSO Canada about life in a southern Bangladeshi brothel. Brothel Justice screened across Canada last spring.

I am a recipient of the 2005 CTV Banff Television Festival Fellowship, the 2006 Alberta Motion Picture Industries Fellowship and I have received awards from the Alberta Foundation For The Arts, Calgary Arts Development and the Canada Council. I was honoured to be nominated in 2008 for the Alberta Motion Picture Award for Best Dramatic Director.  All this and I am still a struggling filmmaker, really I can barely take care of myself and make movies, tell me how can I throw a baby in the mix?