Video
Community Service
Edited for the Tennessee Performing Arts Center and Isaiah T. Creswell Middle School of the Performing and Visual Arts partnered together to support students as they created a documentary about their experience and understanding of this extraordinary magnet school. TPAC teaching artist Jon Royal and Creswell theatre teacher Caroline Barnard mentored a group of students who planned the arc of their film storyline, devised its filming schedule, and operated the high-end cameras and lighting gear themselves. They embraced the complex creative and practical elements required in any artistic endeavor and thrived with the challenge. The film served as a whole school arts integration project as well, with all Creswell students and teachers participating in multiple ways.
Music Video
Film Crew Technology (FCT) had the pleasure of working with Chance McCoy, formerly of Old Crew Medicine Show, on one of his singles, "Sugar Babe. Shot live at The Basement" in Nashville, TN. This video intercuts the performance footage with that of a young lady considering her options. Although David Smith is the director and editor, this project was produced and crewed entirely by Film Crew Technology students.
Sample Visual Effects
From the Narrative Short, BRAINCHILD
Corporate Video
From 1998 until 2005, I was the Director of Video Production and Post for the in-house design group at Bridgestone-Firestone. This team later became Wellspring Design. During my tenure, my duties included: producing, scriptwriting, art direction, directing, editing, audio engineering, DVD authoring, distribution and/or fulfillment for the audio/video products produced through the firm. Other duties included: computer animation & digital effects technical director, lead animator/modeler, compositing and/or graphic design, print layout, publishing & pre-press, presentations and/or media encoding for the web and other multimedia uses.
Pathways to Permanence
This is Scene 5 from the Center for Child Welfare Training "Pathways to Permanence." In this scene, the eldest daughter pleas for he mother to stay clean and sober, so that the family can be reunited--permanently.
Daystar Ministries: One Life Touching Another
This video was produced around 2004 to let potential donors know what Camp Hopetown is all about. Produced mostly from home movies, natural sound, and on next to no budget, the video captures the moments used to soften, shape and strengthen the experiences talked about in groups throughout the year. Each child, regardless of age, sees that he or she has the ability to make a profound difference in the lives of others. Daystar Counseling Ministries is dedicated to providing support, encouragement, & compassion to children, adolescents. Camp Hopetown is Daystar's summer camp, located 2 hours N.W. of Nashville on Kentucky Lake.
Honors and awards
Additional Information
Ghost Light (Script)
o Script Finalist: Vancouver Badass Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, 2021
o Semifinalist: Nashville Film Festival Screenwriting Competition, Nashville, Tennessee, 2021
The Acolyte (Script)
o Best Screenplay: Southern Horror Film Festival, Atlanta, Georgia, 2021
o Honorable Mention: Vancouver Badass Film Festival, Vancouver, Canada, 2021
o Honorable Mention: Frights, Camera, Action Screenplay and Film Contest, 2021
o Official Selection-Screenwriting: 2021 Upstate New York Horror Film Festival Rochester, New York, 2021
o Finalist: 13Horror.com 2021 Screenplay Contest
Dead Winter, Editor; Jason Winn - Director
o Best Short Film, Georgia Film Festival, 2019.
o Best Apocalyptic Horror Film, End of Days Film Festival, 2019
o Best of the Month, Independent Shorts Awards, 2019
o Award winner, Southern Shorts Award, 2019
Brainchild
o Rome International Film Festival, Rome, Georgia, 2017
o Franklin International Indie Film Festival, Franklin, Tennessee, 2017
o Georgia Film Festival, Gainesville, Georgia, 2017
o Southern City Film Festival, Aiken, South Carolina, 2017
o Raleigh Film & Art Festival, Raleigh, North Carolina, 2017
o Marquee on Main, Washington, North Carolina, 2017
Take One Tablet
o Franklin International Indie Film Festival, Franklin, Tennessee, 2017
o 12th Annual West Virginia Filmmakers Festival, Sutton, West Virginia, 2011
o Rome International Film Festival, Rome, Georgia, 2011
o Macon International Film Festival, Macon, Georgia, 2011
Pathways to Permanence, 28th Annual Telly Award, How To/Instructional (Bronze), 2007
Pathways to Permanence, 28th Annual Telly Award, Budgets under $700/minute (Bronze), 2007
Fostering Positive Behavior, 27th Annual Telly Award, Budgets under $700/minute (Bronze)2006
GM Techworld, Bridgestone, Japan 1999 Outstanding Achievement Award, 1999
KINKO'S: A Promotional Video (Best of Show), Lake of the Ozarks Festival, 1991.
Telly Award