• The Case of the Fake Applicant: a short story

    An unsettling Zoom interview leads down a rabbit hole of stolen identities and real-time face-swapping technology. In this short film prologue to The Only Human in the Room, we unmask “Austin”—a verifiable North Korean deepfake—and expose the staggering scale of synthetic identity fraud currently infiltrating corporate America.

  • The Machine Has Ghosts: a Substack

    I’m directing a feature documentary about deepfakes, synthetic identity, and what happens when verifiable personhood begins to fail. The number I can’t stop thinking about isn’t $20 billion. It’s $893 million — and the gap between them.

  • The Only Human in the Room: a film

    Digital provenance slate for my upcoming documentary about deepfakes and the war for verifiable personhood, “The Only Human in the Room.” Based on the C2PA Coalition for Content Provenance and Authenticity.

  • The Barn Doesn’t Lie: a visual essay

    I’ve spent the past year questioning whether “sacred stories” such as those from the Civil Rights Movement, retain their power to motivate and unite when the political, economic, and technological turbulence of the moment demands something different. For sure, universal leadership lessons continue to resonate despite the uncertainty, as I concluded early in 2025 in…