I am an HD cinematographer with over 8 years experience in the digital medium. I have shot a wide range of productions including narrative, documentary, commercial and VFX work. I am also an editor with 10 years experience on Avid NLE systems.

I am currently teaching a video production course at Hart High School, which is funded by Facey Medical and sponsored by the Santa Clarita Valley Film Festival. We help students make their own films and instruct them on every aspect of the filmmaking process, from script to screen.
View our spring semester 2008 class project:
Lack of Direction

-Cinematographer, Paul Sage.

A short excerpt from my USC School of Cinema personal statement:

“When I was ten my parents purchased our first video camera, a JVC VHS-C camcorder. I remember looking at it in amazement and imagining the possibilities. They intended to use it for recording my older sister’s sixth grade graduation, but I had other plans for its use. That summer, I began recruiting my neighborhood friends to be actors in my short films. First to come were the projects that called for nothing more than simple visuals, such as two actors in a living room or in a backyard, but then came the action sequences that required much more.

I can still remember constructing a mockup of the Death Star out of coat hangers and then skinning it with papier-mâché. Once completed, my model looked rather convincing for what it was. The only thing left to do was to blow it up! Well, this never happened. My mother figured out what I was planning to do and put a stop to it. The result was a week of being grounded with no camera usage. These were the struggles of being a young filmmaker.”