ABOUT

Inspired by a life-long passion for visual storytelling and adventure, Devon has over 15 years experience as  a showrunner/director, producer, and writer for narrative and non-fiction television, film, branded, and social media content. She is moving into Virtual Reality where she plans to use her expertise to create virtual reality stories that will hook audiences — in ways previously unimaginable — by bringing them into worlds they wouldn’t otherwise experience.

As co-founder of wild LIFE productions (WLP), she built the company from the ground up with adventure, travel, scientific, and historical content for clients such as Discovery, Travel Channel, National Geographic, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA, Sony Pictures Television, the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, the Bowfin museum at Pearl Harbor, the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, the North Carolina Maritime Museum, among others.

Devon has directed multiple multi-camera productions filmed in locations around the world with a variety of featured characters --from cultural explorers, wild adventurers, scientists, historians and veterans to fisherman, children, deep sea divers, pilots, Special-Olympians, and actors.  She has extensive experience working on research vessels, in manned submersibles, with Remotely Operated Vehicles (ROVs), Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), dive teams, and aircraft. She also writes and directs narrative recreations and writes narrative scripts for film and television.

Through her productions, Devon has developed relationships in the worlds of travel, expedition, and scientific research. Her contacts are affiliated with The Explorers Club, the Explico Historical Research Foundation, National Geographic Society, Tahiti Tourisme, as well as adventure outfitters like Abercrombie and Kent, and cultural groups like the Polynesian Voyaging Society.

 

 

When not in the field, Devon consults on topics related to conservation, messaging, and social media. Recents clients include Disney’s Animal Kingdom, Disney Imagineering (Disney’s “blue sky” Think Tank), the Disney Conservation Fund, Waste Management, Cheryl Fudge DIY Fashion, and Heineken.

Devon is also a founding partner of TERRA, a conservation-minded firm that supplies custom, sustainable performance solutions with 5 critical elements that include solar and other forms of energy, clean water (purification, filtration, storage and production), efficient lighting, communications and health care components. TERRA’s mission is to partner with individuals and organizations to improve quality of life for remote communities with a focus on conservation and sustainability.  [terrags.com | @terrasolutions ]

Devon holds an MFA in Film and Television Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts where she was mentored by Academy Award winning director, Robert Zemeckis. In 2010 she was selected as an “upcoming director” by Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) for her narrative short film “Dance With Me”.  Devon’s B.A. is from The Johns Hopkins University in International Studies and French, with a minor in Italian. She has also studied international economics at Sciences Politiques in Paris, and photography at the Spéos Institute of Photography in Paris and at the Santa Fe Photographic Workshops in New Mexico.

 

 

On location in Tanzania while diirecting documentary film, "Elevation"

On location in Tanzania while diirecting documentary film, "Elevation"

On location in the Marquesas, directing "Lost Continent of the Pacific" for Nat Geo

On location in the Marquesas, directing "Lost Continent of the Pacific" for Nat Geo