Director

Tori has always seen the world in pictures and felt stories deeply within her heart. She didn't find filmmaking until her early 20s, and she credits that with making her such a unique storyteller with a perspective that encompasses many different walks of life. Her passion is to highlight women specifically, but her style focuses on the juxtaposition of complex characters finding the meaning in everyday moments that aim to last beyond the constraints of a film.

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After spending over half of a decade script supervising, she recently made her feature directorial debut with the comedic, family, Christmas film, The Christmas Letter, with Chevy Chase, Randy Quaid, and Brian Doyle-Murray.

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A fan of meaningful stories in all mediums, Tori fell in love with the story of a heroic woman, Violet, battling to stay with her family amidst her harrowing mental health descent in the post-Depression South captured in the novel The Process of Fraying. She has since optioned the rights to adapt it under the name Shades of Violet. Tori has devoted the last several years to researching and developing this vastly impactful story for the screen.

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