My work as a documentarian began as a kid with short films made on our family camcorder documenting local wildlife in our yard, family trips to historic sites, and the kitchen table stories of the community and family elders around me. It was all rooted in a passion for exploration and understanding, to try to capture and preserve the human experience that I was ever-discovering across generations. Though my work has come some ways since those camcorder short films, this core pursuit remains true today.