This was my first real longform editing gig. I met Aimee Torres — the creator and director of OHNI, a medical docu-series now streaming on Amazon Prime — at a networking event my professor at Cerritos College hosted for film students. I think I was the only one who followed up with her. She let me sit in on her editing sessions late at night, just to observe the process. I used to sit there over zoom trying my best not to fall asleep and soak up everything she was doing. I wasn’t falling asleep because of her but because I’d been taking care of family stuff, my homework, or 50 other things. Eventually, she gave me the chance to cut an episode.

Editing OHNI meant going through hours of raw footage — full surgeries, from the first incision to the final stitch. I sat through it all, pulling moments to shape into a compelling narrative. It was intense, but I learned so much. That experience gave me the confidence to take on more and pushed me toward narrative storytelling.

I ended up editing three episodes for Aimee before film school took over my schedule. Seeing OHNI on Amazon Prime with my name in the credits was surreal, I’m incredibly grateful to Aimee for trusting me with that opportunity. Breaks like that are rare when you're starting out, and sometimes they don't come at all. That project really changed how I saw my potential as an editor.