Director / DP Credits
Short doc on legendary cinematographer and filmmaker Haskell Wexler debating with award winning documentarian Hubert Sauper and world renowned photojournalist Susan Meiselas. What’s the truth? Is it truth, fact or fiction? Whose story is it? Interspersed are their films and photographs.
SHOOT FROM THE HEART
Short doc on Haskell Wexler centered around a rollicking evening with filmmakers D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus. A lively discussion about cinematic reality and whether it’s possible to capture it, we examine what it means to be an artist.
SARAH PALIN: YOU BETCHA
Feature doc co-directed with Nick Broomfield for Channel 4 (UK) where we spent three months stalking herself in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, as she contemplates running for president.
AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER
Feature doc co-directed with Nick Broomfield for HBO/Channel 4. Awards: Tribeca Film Festival, Amnesty International DOEN Award. Nominations: IDA Award, European Film Award
ASYLUM
Doc about the criminally insane. Emmy nomination for HBO American Undercover.
JUVENILE LIAISON 2
Feature doc co-directed with Nick Broomfield for Channel 4 (U.K.). Revisited subjects of 1975 film on a controversial crime deterrent program in the north of England.
ONE GENERATION MORE
Feature doc directed and shot for BBC, about an Estonian Jewish family rediscovering their roots after 50 years of Soviet oppression.
Feature doc co-directed and produced with Nick Broomfield for PBS/Channel 4. Chronicling the evolution of the comedienne’s Broadway hit, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe. Shown widely theatrically throughout the U.S., at numerous festivals, and on PBS.
SOLDIER GIRLS
Feature doc co-directed and produced with Nick Broomfield for PBS/Channel 4. Follows a platoon of women through the agonies of basic training right after the US army had to accept women on an equal basis with men due to the Equal Rights Amendment. Awards: BAFTA for Best Feature Length Documentary, Prix Italia, Grand Prize Sundance F.F., Blue Ribbon American F.F.
TATTOOED TEARS
Feature doc co-directed and produced with Nick Broomfield for PBS/Channel 4. About the indignity of life inside a California Youth Authority maximum security prison. Awards: Dupont Columbia Award for Outstanding Journalism, California State Bar for Distinguished Reporting
JUVENILE LIAISON
Documentary co-directed and produced with Nick Broomfield for BFI. Exposes the harsh practices of a British youth crime prevention program.
JIMI PLAYS BERKELEY
Feature film shot, directed and co-produced, now a cult-classic about Jimi Hendrix.
SYLVIA, FRAN & JOY
Film about women’s roles shot and directed for PBS.