Recent Clients

Production Companies

• Tessa

• Left / Right

• Radical Media

• Soledad O’Brien Productions

• Raw

• Film 45

• Downrange Productions

• Lion TV

• Optomen

• Allies & Company

• Radar Studios

Ad Agencies

• Cramer Krasselt (CK)

• Ogilvy & Mather

Companies

• Google

• Global Citizen

• Apple

• Air BnB

• Northwestern Mutual

• Snapchat

• Harley Davidson Motor Company

• Netflix

• ESPN

• New York Times

• The New York Times Presents on FX

• Visual Arts Clients: Jenny Holzer, Glenn Kaino, Museum of Modern Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Amand Williams, Phillips Auction House

• Pabst Brewing Company

• VICE News Tonight HBO

• BET

• Secretly Canadian

• Wilco

• ABC

• PBS - Frontline

• Al Jazeera - Fault Lines

• Travel Channel

• CNN

• BBC

• TIME Inc.

Filmography

• Untitled Candace Parker Documentary (ESPN) - Summer of 2023 - Cinematographer

• “Join or Die” - 2023 (SXSW, feature doc in competition) - Camera Operator

• “We Are Not Ghouls” - 2022 - (SXSW Audience Award Best Feature Doc, Doc NYC) - Co-Director of Photography

• “Messwood” - 2021 (Doc NYC) - Co-Director of Photography

• “The Oil War” - 2020 - DOC NYC - Cinematographer

• “Genetic Detective” - ABC - 2019 - Series Cinematographer

• “Making a Murderer part 2” - Netflix - 2018 - Director of Photography

• "The Blood is at the Doorstep" - 2017 - (SXSW in doc feature competition, Traverse City Film Festival, Maryland International Film Festival, Human Rights Watch Film Festival, Indie Memphis FF, St. Louis International FF, Milwaukee FF, etc) - Director / Producer / Director of Photography

• “Fault Lines” - Al Jazeera - Series Director of Photography

• “Mysteries at the Museum” - Travel Channel - Cinematographer

• "Bronx Gothic" - 2017 - Grasshopper Films, Dir: Andrew Rossi - Cinematographer

• "Almost Sunrise" - 2016 - POV, MountainFilm Festival, AFI - Cinematographer

• "Mothers For Justice" (16 min) - 2015 - Director

• "The 414's" (10 min) - 2015 - Sundance Film Festival, CNN Films - Cinematographer

Honors

• 2024 SXSW Screener - Documentary Shorts

• 2023 Creative Futures Mentor

• 2023 Emmy Judge for National News & Documentary (Cinematography Category) - National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences

• 2023 SXSW Screener - Documentary Shorts

• 2022 Emmy Nominations - The New York Times Presents on FX: Live Fast and Vape Things - Outstanding Research: News, Outstanding Health or Medical Coverage

• 2022 Emmy Nomination - Al Jazeera Fault Lines: Buried Truths: America’s Indigenous Boarding Schools - Outstanding Hard News Feature: Long Form

• 2022 Emmy Nomination - VICE NEWS - The Big Squeeze - Outstanding Business and Economic Documentary

• 2022 Emmy Judge for National News & Documentary (Cinematography Category) - National Academy of Television Arts & Scienes

• 2022 SXSW Audience Award for Documentary Spotlight - “We Are Not Ghouls” (credit: DP, Directed by Chris James Thompson)

• 2022 NPPA Best Documentary of the Year - Runner-Up - The New York Times Visual Investigations: A Fatal Night in Kenosha - How The Rittenhouse Shootings Unfolded

• 2022 duPont-Columbia Awards Finalist for The New York Times - “Visual Investigations: How the Police Killed Breonna Taylor”

• 2021 Soho House x Creative Futures Collective Mentorship Program - Mentor

• 2021 Emmy News & Documentary Award Winner (2) for The New York Times - “Visual Investigations: How the Police Killed Breonna Taylor” - Outstanding Long Feature in a Newscast & Best Story in a Newscast

• 2021 Video Consortium Sony Mentorship Program - Mentor

• 2020 Emmy’s News & Documentary Nominations (2) for Al Jazeera’s Fault Lines - “In Bad Faith” - Outstanding Investigative Reporting in a Newsmagazine, Best Story in a Newsmagazine

• 2020 - Vimeo Staff Pick Short Film - Mothers For Justice

• 2020 - Vimeo Staff Pick - The Blood is at the Doorstep (limited release)

• 2020 - Creative Capital Finalist >>

• 2019 - Gary International Black Film Festival - Audience Award: Best Documentary Feature

• 2019 - Milwaukee Press Club Award: Best Documentary - The Blood is at the Doorstep

• 2018 - Milwaukee Film Brico Forward Fund Recipient

• 2018 - Salem Film Festival - Michael Sullivan FRONTLINE Award for Journalism in a Documentary

• 2018 - Social Impact Media Awards (SIMA) - Best Editing for a Feature Length Documentary - The Blood is at the Doorstep

• 2018 - Wisconsin Film Festival - Golden Badger Award

• 2018 - Beloit Film Festival - Best Feature Documentary - The Blood is at the Doorstep

• 2017 - Indie Memphis Film Festival - Ron Tibbett Award for Excellence in Filmmaking

• 2017 - Milwaukee Film Festival - Allan H. (Bud) and Suzanne L. Selig Audience Award Winner for Best Feature Film (The Blood is at the Doorstep)

• 2017 - Monmouth Film Festival - Best Documentary (The Blood is at the Doorstep) / Destiny City Film Festival - Excellence in Documentary Storytelling

• 2017 - Boost Mobile campaign wins Cannes' Titanium Lion - Adweek

• 2016 - Brico Forward Fund Recipient - Milwaukee Film Festival

• 2016 - Midwest Emmy - Outstanding Achievement for Magazine Programming - Co-Producer - Wisconsin Foodie

• 2016 - Milwaukee Film Festival - Competition Documentary Juror

• 2016 - Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival - Mothers For Justice (short) - "Best of Fest" - Special Jury Recognition

• 2016 - Nohl Suitcase Fund Award

• 2015 - Brico Forward Fund Recipient - Milwaukee Film Festival read >>

• 2015 - Driftless Film Festival - Student Shorts Competition Juror

• 2014 - Mary L. Nohl Fellowship for Emerging Artists more >>

• 2013 - Milwaukee Film Collaborative Cinema Mentor

• 2012 - Radio Milwaukee "Music Video of the Year"

• 2011 - Coalition of Photographic Arts (CoPA) - Artist Incentive Award

Press

• 4/26/21 - Creative Capital - “On Our Radar” read >>

• 3/10/21 - Indiewire - Best True Crime Documentaries to Stream on Amazon, Hulu, and HBO Max - read >>

• 5/18/18 - Wisconsin Public Television - Directors Cut Interview - watch >>

• 2/1/18 - Human Rights Watch Film Festival includes look at 2014 fatal police shooting - San Diego Union-Tribune read >>

• 2/1/18 - San Diego NPR KPBS Interview - listen >>

• 11/15/17 - Milwaukee Filmmaker Opens Up about Hidden Connection to Film - 88NINE Radio Milwaukee listen >>

• 9/28/17 - Dontre Hamilton Documentary Comes Home to Milwaukee - NPR WUWM listen >>

• 9/28/17 - Whose Story? Five Doc Makers on (avoiding) Extractive Filmmaking - IDA: Documentary Magazine read >>

• 8/25/17 - Going Hyperlocal, Filmmakers Explore the Pain of Racism - The New York Times read >>

• 8/22/17 - Conversation: How Has Milwaukee's Film Scene Evolved? - Milwaukee Magazine read >>

• 6/17/17 - Inside the Milwaukee Made Documentary about Dontre Hamilton - Milwaukee Magazine read >>

• 6/8/17 - From Race to Resistance to Refugees: The 28th Human Rights Watch Film Festival - Filmmaker Magazine read >>

• 3/21/17 - 'The Blood Is At The Doorstep': When Your Film Becomes Your Life - No Film School read >>

• 3/17/17 - Critics' Picks: The Best of SXSW 2017 - The Hollywood Reporter read >>

• 3/13/17 - SXSW Review: The Fight for Black Lives Matter gets personal in The Blood is at the Doorstep - Shadow & Act read >>

• 12/25/15 - Nohl Fellowship artists probe how Milwaukeeans define their community - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel read >>

• 12/7/15 - Santa Rosa Junior College Stories - Erik Ljung read >>

• 11/10/15 - Shepherd Express - From Social Commentary to Inner Reality read >>

• 10/6/15 - Journal Sentinel - "Mothers for Justice,' short film on Maria Hamilton, wins top cash prize" read >>

• 10/2/15 - FOX 6 “It’s about the Michael Bell Law:” Producers film shines light on use of police force watch >>

• 5/8/15 - Milwaukee artists documenting Million Moms March, related activism read>>

• 4/8/15 - Covering a Tragedy - Milwaukee Magazine read >>

• 3/19/15 - Milwaukee filmmaker Erik Ljung produces Dontre Hamilton video for New York Times - Milwaukee Record - read >>

• 3/18/15 - New York Times documentary explores Dontre Hamilton case - Journal-Sentinel read >>

• 10/31/14 - Mary Nohl Fellowship winners announced - Journal-Sentinel read >>

• 10/10/14 - 10 Standout Moments from The 2014 Milwaukee Film Festival - Milwaukee Record read >>

• 1/1/13 - M: Milwaukee’s Lifestyle Magazine - “Sydney HiH’s Last Hurrah” pg. 32 - January 2013

• 6/18/11 - Photo exhibit revels in the bygone hues of Kodachrome - Journal-Sentinel read >>

• 5/13/11 - The Death of Kodachrome - Urban Milwaukee read >>

• 1/21/11 - Couple takes photographic road trip to get last of dying film developed - onmilwaukee.com read >>