About Me
Long Island, New York | 2021
Lisbon, Portugal | 2023
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filmmaker, rom com, coming-of-age, libra, foreign films, indie films, feminine, soft, fresh manicure, natural, airy, the color pink, green grass, sunny day, outdoors, pop culture, gen z, 
Born and raised in new york,
to two Jamaican parents, I lived my early years in The Bronx, before moving to Long Island. As a child, I gravitated towards the visual arts; drawing, coloring, painting, etc. I also had a deep interest in writing and storytelling. I spent much of my free time reading fiction and writing poems, stories, & plays.
Growing up in a household with two languages, English and Jamaican patois, initiated my love for language and linguistics. I studied and am fluent in Spanish. I even spent 9 months studying abroad in Logroño, La Rioja, Spain. I also have a limited knowledge of French. In college, I studied Latin for three years and Japanese very briefly. I hope to be a polyglot by 27.
As a writer/director, my focus is on the coming-of-age and romance genres. I specifically focus on the Black experience from an “outside” perspective, as someone who considers themselves both Black American and Afro-Caribbean. I am heavily influenced by my Jamaican heritage and my experience growing up as a first-generation American.
As a Gen Z filmmaker, I like to blend my interests in pop culture, language, and music into my writings. I hope to establish a canon of work that creates more space in the industry for young people who look like me and come from similar backgrounds.
I am also the founder of the Likkle Global Film Archive, a digital film archive of hundreds of films from across the Black diaspora
themes & influences.
Themes in my work include female adolescence, identity, bidialectalism, romance, making & breaking connections, familial relationships, biculturalism, youth, music & musicality, authenticity, heritage, and Blackness.
My directorial influences are Barry Jenkins, Greta Gerwig, Nora Ephron, Richard Linklater, Cheryl Dunye, Wong Kar-Wai, Pedro Almodóvar, Spike Lee, Paul Thomas Anderson, Tayarisha Poe, Jacques Demy, John Hughes, and Baz Luhrmann.
Some of my favorite films include Breakfast at Tiffany’s, Clueless, Stuck in Love, The Before Trilogy, Nightcrawler, Pride and Prejudice (2005), Cotton Comes to Harlem, In the Mood for Love, Moonlight, Call Me by Your Name, Memento, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, Pretty Woman, Lady Bird, Dancehall Queen, and The Watermelon Woman.
My favorite TV shows are New Girl, The Office, Community, Bob’s Burgers, Abbott Elementary, Derry Girls, Succession, Industry, and The Sex Lives of College Girls. I also have an obsession with reality TV (specifically dating shows, competition shows, and anything Housewives/Bravo/TLC related)
“I Love how small moments from our lives can remain with us and have a big impact on who we are. it’s the little stories that become the biggest ones we tell to ourselves and others.”
— Me
