His recent short Little Ones garnered several awards including a Warner Brothers Production Grant through NYU. His other films include WWJD, Saveta’s Gift, and Over There. His award-winning commercial Million in the Mirror for the Avon/Love Army of Women breast cancer initiative aired nationally. Parees worked on the creative team for three NBCUniversal pilots including Smash. After training as a classical ballet dancer and earning a BFA in Drama, leading to ten years of directing innovative theater, Parees completed his MFA in Film at NYU. Parees has four feature screenplays in development with The Southside of Bethlehem targeting production in October 2014.