In 2013, five medical students volunteered to participate in the first year of the AIM Program. The Texas A&M Integrated Medicine (AIM) Program at the Bryan Clinical Campus differs from most medical school clerkships. As a Longitudinal Integrated Clerkship, AIM students go through the six medical school disciplines concurrently, rather than in consecutive blocks. The block model remains the dominant form of clerkship education in the world today, but the seven AIM students I followed through the program would question the wisdom of that fact.

From October 2022 through July 2023, I followed seven students through their third and fourth years of medical school in Bryan, Texas. In the classroom, in the clinics, in the hospitals, and even into the operating room. Through interviews with the students, their preceptors, and the AIM Program staff and leadership, I attempted to tell their story, and to demonstrate the obvious benefits of breaking away from the traditional block model.

 April is an old friend of mine. I can proudly count Dan as a friend now, too. When they decided to get married in 2022, they rented a cabin at their favorite fishing spot on the White River in Arkansas, organized for a local JP to make it official, and invited me to join them. The result was the one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever made.

April & Dan is a film about a couple who know what they want. Over the course of five days in the spring of 2022, I was able to witness their commitment to each other and their joy for life in retirement. Fishing in the chilly White, grilling over coals, telling stories around a fire, and oh, so many tequila shots made this experience the most unique of my career. I was able to get to know two humans as a couple in a way that the typical wedding project doesn’t allow. A unique experience, a unique couple, and a very unique wedding film. This is April & Dan.

 In February of 2019, my buddy Luke Whitney called me and asked how quickly I could get to Dallas. Tobe Nwigwe was set to perform at Erykah Badu’s birthday show. I left my house within 20 minutes, recorded Tobe’s set, processed the footage on the way home and delivered the piece early the next morning. When Tobe called me the next week to ask if I would be interested in coming on tour with him, I said yes.

The Tobe from the SWAT Tour began in Seattle in March of 2019 and finished in Houston 41 days later after 24 shows across the country. This film features footage and music from every single show, and none of the material was recorded outside of the tour. It documents Tobe’s career origins, his faith, his family, and how Tobe approaches music itself. This is the story of Tobe Nwigwe’s first nationwide tour, and how he got there.