A film school drop out who has gained his kicks amongst the rough and edgy stylings of the Memphis film scene which has produced filmmakers like Craig Brewer Ira Sachs and John Michael McCarthy Foxs Film Company SawedOff Collaboratory is made of a group of very diverse filmmakers centered around the Memphis Digital Arts Cooperative His first film Blue Citrus Hearts awarded best feature film at the Chicago Lesbian and Gay Film Fest is a semiautobiographical unglossed look at coming out in the south