The Importance of Playing Yardball

Winner of Best Concept, CMF Florida Festival 2007,
Campus MovieFest National Finalist 2007 at the Atlanta Film Festival, and voted one of the Top Campus MovieFest Films of All Time 2010.
Yardball seems to be just a silly made-up game created by our protagonist and his younger sister, until it becomes the only way he can force Death into giving him a second chance at life.
"A highlight movie from Florida in 2007, and one of the most fun CMF movies to watch again and again. Created in just one week, 'Yardball' takes a fresh and comical look at the classic battle with Death." −Campus MovieFest

The Grim Reaper

I've always enjoyed seeing abstract concepts personified, especially takes on the grim reaper. For my first time working behind the camera, my mind went to placing Death itself in the silliest predicament I could. As the script and the titular backyard game developed, we found a misanthropic reaper who would rather be home watching movies, fumbling around someone's back yard.


"The Importance of Playing Yardball" was the 'little film that could.' Its premiere audience chanted our title in expectation of winning the preliminary round of the Campus MovieFest competition. Which it did not. Nevertheless, "Yardball" placed high enough to advance it further and further in the competition, until we found ourselves at the Campus MovieFest International Grand Finale. Placed alongside more technically sound films, Yardball's strength was its heart. Though it never received the big award, I was touched when our peers would speak on its behalf, and again when it became a favorite of the CMF team. It remains a favorite of mine.