About

I began making films at 11 years old with my stepfather’s DV camcorder. Ever since, I’ve been fascinated by the moving image and its power to tells stories. My films are often hybrid or experimental documentaries that focus on characters who dream big, skirt societal norms, and seek to prove the impossible.

After receiving my undergraduate degree in Film Production from Emerson College in 2016, my early 20s were full of exploration and experimentation. I volunteered full-time with Americorps at a Philadelphia High School and taught English for a year in Indonesia, all while creating experimental and documentary short films.

I received my MFA in Documentary Production and Studies from the University of North Texas in 2022. Since then, I have sought to grow my filmmaking practice to include more ambitious documentary work.

My award-winning short film “Taha’s Theorem” played at film festivals across the country. It explores the courageous story of Taha Muhammad, a Kurdish refugee and mathematician. His resilience and his relationship to grief, identity, and mission inform his journey to prove he has solved one of the worlds’s hardest math problems.

With my current projects, I enjoy leveraging celluloid’s indexicality to explore the truths, beliefs, and hopes that motivate people to do amazing things.

-Aaron Dye