A practical mind. A filmmaker’s perspective.
Decades in Preconstruction for a top contractor in North America — the discipline built to keep budget and design working together.
Independent features rarely fail on ambition. They fail on the gap between the script in your head and the plan on paper — and that gap is usually found late, with the money already committed.
Construction spent decades on this problem. It built an entire phase around it — Preconstruction — and treats getting what matters built for the money that exists as a design question, not an accounting one. It doesn’t always work. But it tries, and film never built the equivalent.
My job is to close it early. I read for what the story needs, build the numbers that follow from it, and lay the alternatives next to each other so the decision is yours to make with clear eyes.
Based in Calgary, working with directors and producers across Alberta and beyond.
Schedules and crew plans built around the shoot you can actually mount.
Budgets that hold up in a financing room and on a Tuesday on set.
Decades of risk management, pointed at the things that sink small films.