Tim has worked in the film and video industry for seventeen years. He is one of four principle cinematographers on the indie film, “CSA”, that played at the 2004 Sundance film festival, and currently in theatrical distribution with IFC films. He directed the award winning documentary “Shades of Gray” that has played in over sixty-film festivals worldwide, wining the jury prize at the Festival International Du Film Independent Brussels Belgium, additionally wining Best Documentary at the Temecula Valley International Film Festival in 2001. Tim was also nominated for a 2002 IDA Award for “Shades of Gray”.

Tim's first documentary, "Quiet Passages," was produced by The Center for East Asian Studies with a grant from the Kansas Council on the Humanities. The program is currently in national distribution through Cross Current Media, a distribution service of the National Asian American Telecommunications Association (NAATA). "Quiet Passages" was shown nationally on 22 PBS stations, including WNET New York and WQED San Francisco. In 1998, indie-film guru John Pierson asked Tim to direct a short documentary for his cable television show "Spilt Screen", aired nation wide on the Independent Film Channel. This segment on the banning of the film "Tin Drum" became one of more controversial segments to ever air on Spilt Screen.