With this victory, you have achieved an important milestone and have become an authoritative voice in international independent cinema. What are your next projects?

First, I want to express my gratitude to the TriBeCa Film Critics Circle Awards and WILD FILMMAKER community for creating a space where independent voices can be discovered. My creative journey has always been focused on one central question: What happens to the people society overlooks?
My screenplay Pretty Little Lucy explores digital identity, loneliness, artificial connection, and the emotional consequences of a world where technology can imitate intimacy but cannot replace humanity. It is a deeply personal psychological drama about vulnerability, empathy, and rediscovering yourself after losing your way.
Moving forward, I want to continue telling stories that challenge how we see each other. My upcoming project Pizza Boyz takes a completely different tonal approach as it’s a working-class comedy and social satire about gig workers racing across America while confronting the algorithms controlling their lives. Beneath the humor, it asks many of the same questions: Are we people, or are we just data?
Beyond writing individual films, I am also passionate about building tools and communities that help remove barriers for independent creators. I believe extraordinary voices exist everywhere, not only in traditional entertainment hubs, and technology should help discover artists- not replace them.

Describe yourself with three adjectives that best reflect your vision of the world.

Empathetic. Persistent. Curious.
Empathy is where every story begins. Every person has a history, pain, dreams, failures, and victories that we may never see.
Persistence represents the independent creative spirit. Most artists are not discovered overnight.
We create because something inside us refuses to stop. Curiosity keeps me from judging characters or people too quickly. The most interesting stories usually exist beneath the surface, in the places people rarely take the time to understand.

WILD FILMMAKER is, above all, a space for freedom of thought and sharing. Who would you most like to find yourself in front of, and what would you say to them?

I would love to sit across from the artist who is seconds away from giving up. It could be a filmmaker, musician, writer, painter, or storyteller from any generation. Someone who believes they missed their opportunity because they were not born in the right city, did not have the right connections, or were never invited into the room. I would tell them: “Your voice matters before anyone validates it.” History is filled with people who were misunderstood before they were celebrated. The world does not always recognize something meaningful immediately. Sometimes the artist’s responsibility is simply to keep creating until the world catches up. The stories that change people rarely come from perfection. They come from honesty.

Through the WILD FILMMAKER Community, we have succeeded in bringing independent filmmakers under the same spotlight as mainstream industrial cinema. How do you evaluate our work and activities?

I believe what WILD FILMMAKER represents is essential to the future of storytelling. For generations, geography and access determined whose voices reached audiences. Incredible creators around the world were limited not by imagination or ability, but by proximity and opportunity.
Platforms that celebrate independent cinema help rebalance that system. The future of filmmaking should not be about replacing traditional cinema, but rather it should be about expanding the table. Hollywood will always create incredible stories, but there are also powerful stories being written in small towns, different countries, and unexpected places every day. Independent filmmakers do not lack talent. Many simply lack discovery. WILD FILMMAKER is helping prove that meaningful stories can come from anywhere, and sometimes the voices furthest from the spotlight are the ones audiences need to hear the most.
Thank you again to the TriBeCa Film Critics Circle Awards and WILD FILMMAKER community for supporting independent artists and giving new voices a place to be seen.