2020 Sundance Ignite Short Film Challenge

Follow the Sun is an observational documentary about refugees making their way across Mexico. Embedded at a migrant shelter, emerging Mexican-American filmmaker, JoeBill Muñoz, captures the liminal moments of a group of men caught in-between grave danger and the hopes of a better life.Follow the Sun was released by NBC and nominated for a student award by the IDA. Muñoz is currently an associate producer on a documentary with the Center for Investigative Reporting in collaboration with Gabriela Cowperthwaite. He is also producing a documentary about the largest hunger strike in US history.

In Kaohsiung, Taiwan, a few residents refuse to leave their now-abandoned village.

Filmed decades apart on the same miniDV camcorder, TO KNOW HER is an poetic exploration of my family’s relationship with my mother, who passed away when I was 14 years old to clinical depression. As a filmmaker and cinematographer I am always trying to understand the gaze I carry - but instead of searching for it I realized in these home-videos that I inherited my camera tendencies from my mother, because she always pointed the camera at the subject who mattered to her most. I want to throw that loving gaze out back towards her and all of our lives.

A short documentary that follows my coming of age with the American South as my backdrop.