Kids Help Phone

Client: Kids Help Phone
Collaborator: Franklin Management Group
Project Type: Multimedia Content Creation
Role: Creative Director and Producer

A national multimedia campaign developed to speak to the lived experiences of Black Canadian youth with specificity, care, and cultural credibility.

The campaign was built through collaboration with Black creatives, including filmmakers, photographers, and poets, while maintaining a cohesive framework aligned with the organization’s broader mandate.

Vazari Arts Co

Client: Vazari Arts Co.
Project Type: Comprehensive Media and Digital Solutions for a Nonprofit Arts Organization
Role: Creative Consultant and Producer

Media, interactive, and digital support for a nonprofit arts organisation focused on contemporary dance and movement-based work.

The collaboration includes short films, promotional materials, internal media assets, a redesigned website, and interactive work. The live performance everything i wanted to tell you received Dora Mavor Moore Awards, and the interactive film adaptation later won Best Dance Film at the Berlin Kiez Film Festival and was selected for Stratfest at Home.

Steve Dies

[in development]
Project Type: Interactive Art & Media
Role: Creator, Producer, and Visual Development Lead

An original mixed-media project spanning interactive media, visual worldbuilding, narrative development, and future animated outputs.

The project includes concept development, character design, illustration, motion development, and prototype and demo development, alongside technical workflow design and game-demo coding. It has functioned as both a creative worldbuilding exercise and a long-term IP development process across visual, narrative, and interactive forms.

Grants and Incubation Programs:
Ontario Creates – Fund Futures – 2020
SpielFabrique MATCH – 2024

Why Not Theatre

Client: Why Not Theatre
Project Type: Digital Transformation for Theatre
Role: Creative Consultant and Producer

A digital adaptation of Why Not Theatre’s RISER initiative developed during the COVID-19 pandemic, enabling emerging artists to share their work with a national audience.

Creative consultation, production support, and media development helped translate live performance into a digital-first format without losing artistic intent or audience connection. The work combined artist consultation, filming, production planning, and promotional development across RISER Digital projects.

Art in Place

Production Partners: Arts Council Wood Buffalo & Balsom Communications
Project Type: Documentary Production & Artist Interviews
Role: Producer and Director

A documentary series developed to document and celebrate the arts community in Fort McMurray, Alberta, a place more often framed through extraction and disaster than through local cultural production.

Built around community-rooted storytelling and a deliberate reframing of place, the project focused on local artistic voices, environmental context, and a visual language that emphasised resilience, creativity, and cultural presence.

Publications and Recognition:
Balsom Communications: Visual Storytelling as a Means of Rebuilding, 2019
Arts Council Wood Buffalo Official Selection: Excellence in Arts Awards, 2019
Arts Council Wood Buffalo Official Selection: Excellence in Media Arts, 2019

Hilite Outdoor Media: Brand Development

Client: Hilite Outdoor Media
Project Type: Brand Development and Marketing
Role: Creative Director and Producer

Brand development for a Toronto-based out-of-home advertising startup, focused on building a cohesive identity and market-facing materials that could position the company for growth in a competitive market.

The work included identity assets, pitch support, digital content, and promotional media, built as part of a flexible brand system that clearly communicated Hilite’s value proposition to partners and prospective clients.

Home Videos

Project Type: Multimedia Production Initiative
Role: Creator and Producer

A production initiative created to make high-quality media resources more accessible to emerging artists and musicians.

Originally built as an accessible production platform, the project later expanded into a broader documentary development process examining the erosion of institutional support for artists in Canada. The work combined production, identity development, and partnerships while creating practical support structures for artists with limited resources.

Sponsors and Partners: Henderson Brewing, Ride Away Bikes, Century Drums, Leek, Vandermarel Farms

City of Toronto

Client: City of Toronto & Tim Hortons
Agency: Blue Crane
Project Type: Event Coverage & Promotional Materials
Role: Producer and Cinematographer

Event coverage and promotional material created for a large-scale New Year’s Eve celebration in Toronto attended by more than 50,000 people.

The work combined large-scale event coverage, visual coordination, and promotional asset development, capturing the scale, atmosphere, and community energy of the event while aligning with the City’s broader public engagement goals.

Fine Art

Recent work includes public art, glitch-derived image systems, and photography rooted in place, memory, and recovery. Selected projects include Found No., which translated retro game glitches and coding failures into public interventions and generated press coverage, and Alberta, a photographic series on displacement, landscape, and recovery after the Horse River wildfires.

Publications and Recognition:
BlogTO: People are loving this anti-Loblaws public art from a mystery person in Toronto, 2024
Daily Hive: People are loving this anti-Loblaws public art from a mystery person in Toronto, 2024
Diario El Popular: A la gente le encanta este arte público en contra de Loblaws, 2024
Strategy Online: The way through Loblaw’s recent PR nightmare, 2024

Creative Workshops for Equity-Seeking Communities

Project Type: Skills Training Workshops
Role: Workshop Creator and Facilitator

A series of workshops designed to provide practical creative skills training for emerging artists, particularly participants from equity-seeking communities navigating systemic barriers in the arts.

The work combined curriculum design, facilitation, and partnership-building across programmes ranging from one day to nine weeks. Workshops were structured to support both individual and collaborative learning while expanding access to practical production knowledge and creative development.

Sponsors and Partners: JAYU, FILMIC Inc, Trinity Square Video, The Human Rights Film Festival, Leek

The Nissan Kickoff Project

Client: Nissan Canada
Agency: T1 Agency
Project Type: Documentary Production
Role: Producer and Cinematographer

Documentary production rooted in community and event storytelling, created around an exhibition football game and parade promoting youth football across Canada.

The project combined cinematography, equipment and crew organisation, and documentary-style coverage to connect the event to the athletes and communities involved. Coverage included both the game and surrounding public events to build a fuller sense of atmosphere and impact.
 

Aligned to the selected work PDF and Leek client materials, with naming updated to T1 Agency.

ACE Dance

Commissioned by ACE Dance Theatre
Project Type: Multimedia Content Creation
Role: Producer and Cinematographer

Commissioned media work created in collaboration with ACE Dance Theatre, focused on translating performance into audience-facing visual material.

The work supported digital presentation and documentation through movement-focused image-making, extending live performance into formats suited to online viewing and broader public engagement.