bio

I was born in rural Michigan—and I mean rural. Like born at home... on a farm... during a thunderstorm. Yet somehow, I'm shaped by a place I've never seen. The echoes of the Afghan mountains my parents once called home whisper to me in my dreams, pulling at something deep I can't quite name.

I'm a second-generation immigrant and a third culture kid. What does that mean? It means I belong neither here nor there. I exist in the hyphen, in the space between worlds. Growing up, I relocated over a dozen times—Michigan, then California, then Michigan again, then California again... and well, you get the point. My life has been this constant motion, each year bringing a new chapter, each place introducing new faces, stories, and lessons that changed me in ways I'm still discovering.

I like to think I was raised to gather these moments like threads, weaving them into something bigger—a tapestry of experience and reflection crafted not just to hold onto, but to share. And that's what drives my pursuit of film: creating an audio-visual experience that captures life itself, in all its messy, beautiful, contradictory glory.

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