<meta charset="utf-8"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; background-color: transparent; border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Times; font-size: medium; "><span id="internal-source-marker_0.17998066428117454" style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">I am a graduate of NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and have directed videos for Cami Spectrum’s “Revolution,” Palissimo dance theater, and my own business, Topsy Design, a </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">multidisciplinary design company. Under the Topsy banner I have prop and wardrobe styled editorial fashion shoots, production designed and costumed films and music videos, and interior decorated residences.</span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Topsy is probably best known for its online vintage store, </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">which garnered a lot of notice when it opened last year. GQ raved about the “</span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">carefully curated line with an eye for weathered simplicity.” </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">BlackBook lauded the </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(12, 12, 12); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">"eco-conscious...timeless styles” and Apartment Therapy dug the “elusive blend...a mad topsy-turvy mix.” </span><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; "></span><br><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: transparent; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; ">Before launching Topsy, I worked professionally as a director, editor, and shooter. With “Kingswood” my first narrative film, I am excited to tell a story using a medium I am intimately familiar with.</span></div>