LENDL
TELLINGTON
Working across cinema, photography, and installation, transforming everyday stories into immersive experiences — illuminating how communities forge their own systems of value and inviting audiences to recognize their own complex truths.
Tinkering with time like music — remixing the line between prescribed histories and collective memory.
That's Why He Made Momma
Documentary Film & Exhibition
A feature documentary and immersive installation examining how one Black family reimagines legacy when their matriarch falls ill and they could lose home.
The Age Of All Women
Documentary Film
Senegal's first female contemporary artist, Younousse Seye, hasn't had an exhibition in 30 years — or a film release in 50. When the art world suddenly rediscovers her, she must reckon with the structures that govern how Black women are remembered.
Dancing Despite
Music Video
A single, unbroken take. A mother. A dance. A quiet act of resistance that says everything words cannot.
Dos Noemis
short documentary
Two women who share the same name united migrant farmworkers in rural New York and built the state's first Farmworkers Union. A portrait of collective power, commissioned by The LIFT Fund.
PHOTOGRAPHY
Glou Glou Magazine
Publication & Creative Direction
A wine publication that refuses to take itself seriously — trading elitism for word-of-mouth accessibility. From 2015-2019, I served as Creative Director, working alongside a small team including a graphic designer and independent wine importer to shape the brand's identity from the ground up, resulting in a distinct yet unpretentious storytelling experience.
BlackStar Projects
Technical & Video Production
For over a decade, I served as Technical Producer for BlackStar Projects (home of the BlackStar Film Festival) — ensuring Black, Brown, and Indigenous cinema reaches the screens and audiences it deserves. My work there spans managing film exhibition as well as producing video content for BlackStar’s film journal, events and the organization's growth and fundraising needs. My implementation of accessibility practices propelled BlackStar to become the second most accessible film festival in the world, according to the 2023 Film Event Accessibility Scorecard.
How Colonial Histories Shape Dreamscapes: Henri Rousseau and Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Lecture + Essay
Originally delivered as a lecture at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, this essay traces the colonial structures behind two artists separated by a century and thousands of miles — a self-taught French toll collector who never left France, and a Thai filmmaker whose work blurs waking life, memory, and dream. A meditation on whose imagination gets to flourish, and at what cost.
APPEARANCES & ACCLAIM
Back to School: Photo Exhibition, Gravy Studio 2015
The Agitators– Photo Exhibition, 5th Annual BlackStar Film Festival | August 2016
Documentary Lab Fellow, Saul Zaentz Innovation Fund at Johns Hopkins University|October 2016
2017 Grant Recipient, Ruby Artist Grant, Deustch Foundation
2020 Grant Recipient, HBO/IFP True Stories Funding Initiative
2020 Grant Recipient, Philadelphia Contemporary Velocity Fund
2020-2023 Resident Artist, Creative Alliance |Baltimore, MD
2021 Fellow, BAVC Mediamaker Fellowship
2021 Emerging Filmmaker Grant Recipient- Independence Public Media Foundation
Semifinalist, Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2022, National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution
2022–2024 Fellow, Firelight Media Documentary Lab
2026 Artist Residency, Sacatar Institute | Bahia, Brazil
