Kat Award Winner – “Senses” Poetry Video

Mangiardi Films & I won ‘Best Artists Film’ for my “Senses” Poetry video beating out 14 other video submissions in the ‘Best Artists Film’ category. The Together! 2025 Disability Film Festival took place Dec. 6th & 7th 2025. This one is our first win. We have been shortlisted and nominated at a few other international film festivals as well. Can’t wait to share more updates as we break through to more festivals. You can see me performing a live version of “Senses” on my Poetry page. Once we’re done with the festival circuit, we’ll be able to share the final video.

First Single of 2019 – New Track Released

Starting 2019 with a debut of my latest track “Riding on a Wave”.

I’ve always considered myself a live musician and performer. Even though I’ve spent a lot of time in studio’s and messing around with recording, I’ve never been to crazy about the recording process. For me, the thrill was always in the live show. This past year I’ve spent more time sitting, writing and putting tracks together and working on an EP.

All music is done by me. Pop on some headphones or crank up your sound system and give it a listen.

New Music Video – Ryn Scott “Let it Go”

Back in October of 2018 I worked with Jake Bass and his new artist Ryn Scott as the Assistant Director on a music video for his first single “Let it Go”. This was a fun shoot out in Holland, Michigan. We had the opportunity to showcase the beauty that is “Pure Michigan” and also drive around in a sweet 1974 AMC Matador classic. We dropped the video on 12/21/18, and within 1 week, we picked up 110,000 views.

The video was shared by the blog Come Here Floyd and this is what they had to say:

come here floyd ryn scott review

We got more videos on the way so stay tuned for more from Ryn Scott!!

New Article Published: What It’s Like To Be Deaf in an Industry That’s Loud

 

Deaf in a Loud industry

Recently I was asked to contribute an article about my experiences as a Deaf individual working in the music industry.  As I continue freelancing and navigating jobs in this competitive and ever-changing industry, I decided to gear my post towards other D/Hoh individuals trying to make it in “hearing industries” and share some advice. The article got a great response throughout the UK and here in the US.

Click here to give it a read and let me know your thoughts!!

Two Years and No Updates? What Happened

It’s been two years and I haven’t updated my website…what gives? Well here’s the short of it.

I’ve been EXTREMELY busy with DPAN.tv. Two years ago we launched the FIRST online TV network website dedicated to providing accessible content in American Sign Language, Voice-over, and captioning. What started as a small team of 5 of us grew into a 32+ person operation with staff all throughout the country. My job duties continued to grow endlessly. Starting off as a Content Manager for the website trying to pull in webseries, short films, ASL music videos, and much more, my primary focus shifted into the Director and Associate Producer for DTV News which has been VERY time consuming. Ensuring daily news and information is delivered to our audiences on time, with correct information, unique, original, and ACCESSIBLE for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing viewers as well as audiences that may or may not know ASL is a lot of work. Our staff grew quickly to 32 and I oversaw every aspect from the story selections, script writing, all the way through filming, voice-over and captioning. It’s a tedious but imperative process. Along the way we also launched a new series which I helped produce, Tru-Biz, a Deaf related hollywood/entertainment news series.

In addition to overseeing these programs, I developed my own “character” and starred in my own short fun segments called “Facts of Life with Rex Turner”, helped produce “Between the Lines”, and helped make history with DPAN.tv by providing live interpretations for the 2016 Presidential Debates, AND the Superbowl halftime show. In mid 2015 I also flew out to LA to work alongside director Jules Dameron as her Assistant Director for the soon-to-be-released web series “Reverse Polarity”.  Alongside overseeing the staff and all these projects, I have also been overseeing production for multiple external clients for DPAN.

That’s just a brief synopsis of the past two years, not including international performances with Sean Forbes in London, numerous DJ gigs and other really cool highlights and achievements. It’s been A LOT of work, so I hope you can forgive me for a lack of website updates.

With all that being said – I’m currently working to renovate my website to reflect all my latest projects, jobs, highlights, and make this website more current. Til then, thanks for your patience as I work on getting my site up-to-date.

Gospel Video of the Year

A video I shot with director Adrean Mangiardi last December is up for Gospel Music’s ‘Stellar Awards’ “Video of the Year”. The video is for The Rance Allen Group’s “Clap Your Hands (A Lil Bit Louder). This is an exciting nomination for the video, and we look forward to seeing the results.

Check out the video if you haven’t seen it yet.

*Edit: We did not win, but it was a honor for our video to be nominated for one of the Gospel Community’s biggest awards.