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All shots, grading, motion graphics and audio mastering are my own with the exception of Iris Bailin Broudy’s portrait with Farmer Lee - I only animated the graphic shown.
Julio Saqui is a chocolate maker using his Mayan ancestor’s methods to create artisan bars, truffles, and cocoa tea. I worked with another incredible journalist, Jeremiah Rhodes, to plan, film, and edit this project, and it’s the most rewarding work I’ve done to this day. Footage from this documentary was licensed for the chocolate episode of the HBO show A World of Calm, and won the 2020 CPOY Bronze award for documentary short films.
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The Victoria Generals share champagne from their trophy as they celebrate their 7-4 Texas Collegiate League 2019 win against the Acadiana Cane Cutters at Riverside Stadium.
John Clifton Stewart, Jr. embraces trucker-turned-pastor Oran Moses after being baptized in Lavaca Bay, while Marker 48 Fellowship members applaud in the background. His caretaker, Veronica Crosby, right, helped Moses with the ceremony. It was the Fellowship’s first baptism.
Master Sgt. John Miller is reflected in the helmet of Victoria West ROTC cadet Joseph Edds, 18, while the Bloomington High School marching band plays the national anthem at the Veterans Day parade in downtown Victoria.
A passing nurse attempts to reach the victim of a collision outside Meyersville, TX. Years after this Victoria County crash, authorities arrested the driver of the tractor-trailer on a criminally negligent homicide charge. Texas Department of Public Safety troopers found the tractor-trailer driver was distracted by his phone during their investigation.
Caitlin Cope, 19, has her face painted by Michael Ramirez, 32, during the 2nd annual Body and Beauty Expo’s makeup competition on September 2, 2018, in Victoria, TX.
On a balmy September evening, just as the sun dipped below the horizon, the audience at the Texana Raceway in Edna, TX, rose in response to the sound of the national anthem over the subdued rumble of stock car engines. Though it was a town of less than six thousand, the pit lane was full of drivers from across Texas, some of whom had been attending races at small dirt tracks like this one for decades.
Jaden Billie, 15, from Bowie, TX, helps Melissa, 14, and Rainey, 18, apply nails to the roof they are building for Victoria resident Birdie Girdy. It is one of many roofs that were heavily damaged by Hurricane Harvey. For almost a year since the storm, Birdie has lived with nothing but a tarp over her living room.
Pete Delgado, golfing with team 10B at the Bluebonnet Golf Tournament, digs into the grass and sends his tee flying.
Mason Tran, 17, shaves the head of Reese Bludau, 17, in front of the student body at St. Joseph High School. Bludau and classmate Sergio Calvo, in green, pledged to shave their heads if St. Joseph High School students met a funding goal to help Victoria Police Officer David Brogger, who was recently diagnosed with cancer.
Kim Ross, 42, a breast cancer survivor, holds her husband Leo's hand during an interview at their home. His fingernails show the effects that Stage 4 cancer and various treatments have had on Leo’s body. He was diagnosed a month after his wife's final treatment.
Outside the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an anonymous counter-protestor recites anti-racism mantras through a megaphone, directed at Heirs to the Confederacy advocate Rusty Alphin. After learning of the February 23 pro-Confederate event on Facebook, anti-fascists attempted to drown out the Heirs members. Despite the removal of UNC’s Silent Sam statue late last year, tensions between the two groups remain.
A fisher casts his line moments after sunrise. Nearby, a nine-million-dollar dredging operation designed to revitalize the area’s ecosystem was refilled with sand by numerous storms. According to local fisher and boat captain John Dunithan, the fish in the bayou suffer without the connection to oxygenated water from the Gulf.
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