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Queer Homeless Youth in NYC is a documentary that I'm in the midst of creating, where I interview various homeless LGBT youth throughout New York City about their personal experiences having experienced street life, shelter life, and other ways they've managed to survive being homeless.

The interviews go over the participants' experiences to becoming homeless, and the day-to-day struggles of trying to survive with no stable place where they're allowed to sleep, or have the consistent ability to feed themselves.

This documentary will be screened in Las Vegas at the Creating Change convening, likely to be shown in front of 300+ people in attendance for the event.

This documentary is in correlation with the Coalition of Radical Advocacy and Empowerment's "Needs Assessment". The assessment is a collective of statistics compiled from 200+ homeless LGBT youth, providing insight into their experiences and the impact between various demographic factors.

here's a bit of a showcase of the videos i've made in the past few years! these all redirect to viewable google drive links.

  • Trinity Place Shelter Instagram pride month ad (2024 Jun 20)

    • An intern as I arrived at Trinity that day asked if I wanted to be a part of this ad, based around what Trinity and pride means to me. I helped set up the setting and the shot in front of the stained glass, and she gave me the reigns to edit it together on her computer. After two one-hour sessions on her copy of iMovie, I pieced it together, reducing the time from six minutes between everyone to a one minute ad. She put the text bubbles and music during final approval, and it was posted on @trinitys_place. If only I could get the 1080p 16:9 source file. Oh well.

  • ROH - Thursday Nights Will NEVER Be The Same (2023 Mar 4)

    • I had gotten a stroke of inspiration after the first AEW-owned episode of Ring of Honor Wrestling, with Ian Riccaboni's line during the logo animation said in nearly the same way as Jim Ross in the original Smackdown! vs Raw trailer released in 2004. I had never used After Effects previous to this, and so 19 straight hours later, the logo animations were created, and by 23 hours in, the entire video was pieced together!

  • Downfall (corecore & nichecore) (2023 Jan 24)

    • This was during the height of the #corecore trend that swept over TikTok in the winter of 2022 into 2023, and I found my take on the rise of figures representing the far-right like Andrew Tate to be extremely stressful to hear about all the time. I wanted to be able to seamlessly transition from topic to topic between bigotry, wealth disparity, and cults of personality. I had never seen a corecore video above 3 minutes in length, and I felt I had enough idea to piece a cohesive video together portraying the despair accurately throughout the video.