Ralph has traded in the street name “El Diablo” for “The Urban Dad”. A vulnerable portrait of black fatherhood and government housing, the former drug dealer turned local dad’s group leader navigates Brooklyn's unjust housing conditions while caring for his eleven-year-old daughter Bug.

- Official selection of the Better Cities Film Festivals; Winner of the Better Communities Award and Best Student Film
- Official selection of the Pan African Film Festival
- Official selection of the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival
- Official selection of the Margaret Mead Festival (Museum of Natural History) as Emerging Visual Anthropologist Showcase
- Official selection of the deadCenter Film Festival, selected speaker for Cinematic Advocacy Panel

The story of Ralph and Bug unfolded while attempting to create a film about the housing injustice and gentrification within my community. In the Q&A following my first screening, a comment from an audience member marks the significance of this film in poetic simplicity. “This is a story about a bathroom. This is a story we pass by everyday. And yet, we cannot deny we have been changed by it, for the better.”

This film creates a portrait of a lived realities that aren't often given the spotlight. Public housing, single, black fatherhood, community-led healing. Just as knowing Ralph and Quelinda has changed me, bringing me to care more deeply about local housing justice and my neighbors living very different lives than my own, I hope their story sparks the same compassion within others.