I was born in Missoula, Montana and grew up on a small goat farm where my parents were dedicated to educational reform, predominantly in the field of inclusion and special education. I have always loved writing and got my undergraduate degree in creative writing and philosophy from the University of Arizona. A few years after I graduated I moved to Seattle and realized film was the perfect collaborative art, requiring photography, music, writing, acting, wardrobe, etc. I went to a matinee by myself at a cheap theatre in Lynnwood one rainy afternoon and saw Wong Kar-Wai’s ‘In the Mood for Love’. It was so beautiful and compelling, as I watched the credits roll, I saw lists of individuals who had somehow managed to work in the film industry and I thought to myself, why couldn’t I find a way to do this as well? Is it possible? Having grown up on a goat farm down the Bitterroot, it seemed a bit far fetched. But for the next few years I committed to myself to do one thing towards that goal each day. I began volunteering at the Northwest Film Forum delivering their newspapers. Then after a few months, the volunteer coordinator told me there was a directing workshop no one wanted to attend and that since I’d volunteered so many hours, I could go for free. So I went and the guy giving the class had graduated from the London Film School in the 60s. I eventually attended LFS as well, getting an MA in filmmaking. After I graduated I moved back to Seattle and (from Craigslist) got a job working on a low budget horror film starring Tori Spelling, called Cthulhu. I worked as an unpaid intern, and then got promoted to production coordinator and took whatever job in film that I could for the next six years, working back to back on whatever came into town. I was fortunate that I fell in with a great independent film community in Seattle and stayed employed the whole time. I worked my way up from production assistant, to the AD department and into the role of UPM (Unit Production Manager). Then I was hired as a Line Producer at North By Northwest, which brought me to Spokane. I left NXNW four years ago to produce independently.

The first film I produced with a group of friends from Seattle was called The Off Hours, directed by Megan Griffiths and it premiered at Sundance in 2011. I have since produced or co-produced several features. I have worked on over thirty films in my career, ranging from budgets of 100,000 to 7 million. I produced my husband, Robyn Miller's first film, The Immortal Augustus Gladstone. We self distributed and the film is now available for free on Vimeo and You tube https://vimeo.com/96945067. Robyn comes from a video game background (co-created Myst & Riven). The experience of self distribution with Augustus has piqued my interest in alternative modes of distribution and learning ways to combine the creative art of film in a way that is sustainable(financially).

The Hero Pose is my first attempt at writing and directi