survival & healing,

the making of a vampire mother,

a twilight fan film.

this site explores what lies beyond the chronicles.

I have always been someone who finds meaning through stories.

They have been my way of understanding the world, of making sense of love, loss, devotion, and the quiet moments that shape us over time. Stories are where I feel most grounded. They are where I return when life becomes overwhelming, and where I begin again when something within me needs healing.

I am a trauma survivor, but survival is not where my story ends. Survival gave me the opportunity to continue, to choose what kind of life I wished to live, and the courage to try, even without the promise of success. I care deeply about gentleness, truth, and the protection of those we love. It is often within the worlds of fantasy that I have seen these values embodied with a clarity and conviction I have rarely encountered in the ordinary world.

Through storytelling, I found hope in turning page after page of characters who endured their trials and rose again, like a phoenix from the ashes. In witnessing these journeys, I discovered the strength to endure my own. As someone who has often felt out of place in the world I was given, it was through storytelling, and through the art of cinema, that I found a place to belong. It became a safe space where creativity could flourish, and where I could follow beloved characters as they set off on yet another adventure.

Like the authors and filmmakers who created the worlds that shaped me, my hope is to carry that kindness forward through my own writing and film. I hope that my work may one day become the same kind of sanctuary for others that those stories once were for me: a place of familiar characters and shared wonder, where we may step away from the noise of the world for just a moment and disappear into the fantasy realms we love, following the lives of the characters who inhabit them until the credits finally roll.

One of the worlds that remained with me long after the final page was Twilight. Not simply as a romance, but for what existed beyond the dazzling vampires: a theme as old as time itself, and almost as old as some of the vampires within it — family. A chosen family, built on unconditional love and loyalty that stretches across time. Twilight is one of many stories that helped shape who I am, and it is one I hold with great care.

The Cullen Chronicles: Legacy – 1935 grew from that place. It is a professional fan-made film, created with deep respect for the original work and a desire to explore what was left quietly between the lines. My filmmaking journey is not the whole of who I am, but I do hope my work reflects the way I try to move through the world: thoughtfully, devotionally, and with a deep respect for legacy.

What follows here is the work I am creating, the stories I am writing, and the life that exists beyond any single project.