This video explores the effects of Connecticut's Fiscal Guardrails on its citizens. It was shown at the Greater Hartford Interfaith Action Alliance's 2024 Power Summit to an audience of over 1,000 people! I was lucky enough to serve as a camera operator on this shoot to help film the interviews and B-roll.

As a job for DDC Productions at Wesleyan, I shot, directed, and edited a seven-minute short documentary capturing 2024 Wesleyan Center for the Arts artist in residence Sunny Jain’s experience developing a theatrical musical experience on campus. The job is handily one of the longest-running films I’ve shot, as we captured material from January to October 2024, and I finished the editing process in early 2025. There was so much to learn from the performance he gave and the things he talked about, including Indian-Pakistani politics, the death of his father, philosophy, musical influences, and more. Editing the performance footage and his interviews gave further insight, as working with the material became a process of determining what to leave in and leave out, creating meaning for an audience that could be equivalent to what I had learned in months working on this project.

As a film directing job for DDC Productions at Wesleyan, I was tasked with covering and editing a recap of Professor Zaira Simone-Thompson’s Abolition Geographies class’s trip to New York City in the Spring of 2024. This was a collaboration with Princeton University, and both classes brought a group of student panelists to give several talks about abolition geographies, and working towards abolishing systems that keep people oppressed in places around the world from the Caribbean to Burundi to Palestine. I learned so much from the students in this class, many of whom were the same class year as me. Not only did this experience give me new vocabulary that I had not encountered in any of my other classes, but simply knowing that spaces like this exist and are actively being created gives me hope. Additionally, the very notion of having a video such as this one that can circulate around different spaces makes me think conversations around abolitionist movements can continue to spread.