“Celebrating Sorrow”
Moab Times-Independent
Coverage of the Sorrow shoot on location in Moab.
I build things. That's the through-line.
Today it's Dillys Trading CO, the AI-enhanced marketing consultancy I founded in 2020, and a Junior Analyst seat in Internet Service Testing. Before that, it was concrete forms on cliff-edge bedrock homes in Moab, Utah. Before that, it was a dolly track leveled on apple boxes in the sand dunes, waiting for Johnny Depp to walk past with a pink umbrella.
In 2013 I worked as a local-hire grip on The Lone Ranger (Disney / Jerry Bruckheimer), under key grip J. Michael Popovich's department on the Moab unit. I set track for the Depp-and-Hammer horse scene, held bounce boards in sync with the dolly, and rode the Colorado River sandbag run: roughly a thousand sandbags moved by jet boat to build a fake dune for the exploding train tracks sequence.
Two years earlier, I co-produced Sorrow (2015, dir. Millie Loredo). I scouted locations, ran logistics, and funded production myself through a merchandise campaign I designed and sold. In between, I spent two years at Straight Line Contracting pouring foundations.
Show up. Do the work nobody else wants. Get the details right.
