<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; border-top-style: none !important; border-right-style: none !important; border-bottom-style: none !important; border-left-style: none !important; border-width: initial !important; border-color: initial !important; "><h3 style="margin-top: 0.83em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0.83em; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; font-size: 1.17em; font-weight: bolder; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; ">In 2008, after working eleven years on the assembly line at the Whirlpool Corporation's wash machine factory in Clyde, Ohio, I checked into a hotel room with a camera one night and made my first film. Working alone as actor, director, and cinematographer, I filmed an authorized adaptation of the Stephen King short story, "All That You Love Will Be Carried Away," and after two days of editing -- just in time for the admissions deadline -- submitted it as part of my application to several graduate film programs, including the one I eventually attended, New York University's Tisch School of Arts Asia, in Singapore. For three years there, I worked closely with a group of profoundly talented classmates and faculty. The script for my short film "A Glimpse of Stocking" earned high praise from writer/director Todd Solondz, and my work as cinematographer in the film "Er Ren," by Shijie Tan, was on display in the Corto Cortissimo section of the 66th Venice Film Festival.</span></h3><p style="margin-top: 5px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Helvetica, Arial, Tahoma, sans-serif; ">"Frankincense & Myrrh" is my thesis project for the school. A 20-minute dark comedy, it's about a recently divorced working class dad who struggles keep his cool and give his two unruly sons a meaningful Christmas.</p></div>