- Finding the Gold Within (92 min) 2014
(Producer - Director - Writer - Cinematographer - Editor)
Documentary about young black men from Akron, Ohio, entering college
Mill Valley Film Festival - Big Muddy Film Festival (***John Michaels Award) - Cleveland International Film Festival - Black Male Summit - Chicago Social Change Film Festival - Lake Erie Film Festival - Greater Cleveland Urban Film Festival - National Bioneers Conference - Social Justice Think Tank 2015 - Rethinking Race Film Festival - AFAM Black Film Festival - Oneota Film Festival - College Bound Summit 2016
Distributor: The Video Project and Kanopy
GoldTheFilm.com
- Awakening from Sorrow: Buenos Aires 1997 (40 min) 2009
(Co-Producer – Co-Director – Co-Editor – Art/Music
Director)
Documentary about the HIJOS movement in Argentina, the children of the Disappeared
Mill Valley Film Festival - La Peña, Berkeley - Charleston Film Festival - Newport Beach Film Festival - Sin Fronteras Film Festival - Washougal Film Festival - Port Townsend Film Festival - Brantford Film Festival, Canada -Oaxaca Int'l Independent Film Festival, Mexico
Distributor: Ikarus Films/ Fanlight
-
In
the Shadow of Huma’s Wing (56 min) 2008
(Director – Writer – Cinematographer)
Intimate portrait of somatic psychotherapy (as developed by Louise Barrie)
-
Phoenix
Dance (16
min and 22 min version), 2006
(Producer
- Director - Cinematographer - Editor)
Film about a one-legged dancer's return to the stage (featuring Homer
Avila and Alonzo King)
***2006 San Francisco Int’l Film Festival
(Golden Gate Award)
***2006 Official Selection
- [ida]DocuWeek Theatrical Showcase & DocuWeek
Multi City Theatrical Rollout (eight cities)
***2006 One of Eight “Short
listed” for Oscar nomination: Best
Short Documentary
***2006 Madelyn's Choice Award - Rocky Mountain
Women’s
Film Festival
***2007 Isadora Duncan Dance Award (The Izzies) Special Achievement
***2007 Jury Award for Best Short Documentary - Newport Beach Film Festival
***2007
Audience Award: Best Short Film - Sydney Film Festival, Australia
***2007 Prize
for Originality & Innovative Direction - Emotion Pictures Documentary & Disability
Int’l Festival, Athens, Greece
***2008 Grand Prize, Best of Festival
(Documentary) - Black Maria Film and Video Festival
***2008 Merit Award, Superfest,
Int’l Disability Film Festival, Berkeley,
California
***2008 Best Documentary, Sapporo Short Fest Japan
***2008 Audience
Award, look&roll Kurzfilmfestival, Switzerland
***2008 Sprit of the Festival,
FOCUS Film Festival, California
Dance Films
Association Dance On Camera Festival at Lincoln Center (New York) - Nashville
Film Festival; Florida Film Festival - Cinedans Int’l Dance
Film Festival (Amsterdam) - Jacob’s Pillow Dance Festival - Atlantic Film
Festival (Nova Scotia) - Heartland Film Festival - Hot Springs Documentary Film
Festival - Mill Valley Film Festival - Denver Int’l Film Festival - Palm
Springs Int’l Film Festival - Santa Barbara Int’l Film Festival -
Ashland Film Festival - Mendocino Film Festival - Constellation Change Screen
Dance on Screen Festival (London) - American Dance Festival Dancing for the Camera
- Crossroads Film Festival - Flint Institute of Arts - Rialto Cinemas Lakeside,
Disabilities Series, Santa Rosa, CA - International Ballet Festival of Miami
- Rochester Dance On Camera Festival - Moving Pictures Festival of Dance (Toronto)
- Festival of German Dance Archive (Cologne) - Sonoma Valley Film Festival -
Washington Center for the Performing Arts - Everett Women’s Film Festival,
WA - VSA arts Family Festival (Kennedy Center) - “wie wir leben” Int’l
Short Film Festival (Munich) - Int’l Festival of Films on Art (Montreal)
- Port Townsend Film Festival - Milano Doc Festival (Italy) - FICAP, Lisbon (Portugal)
- Fargo Film Festival, ND - Int’l Festival of Short Films on Culture, Jaipur
(India) - Contemporary Documentary Series, Hollywood - Naregatsi Film Institute,
Yerevan (Armenia) - The Other Film Festival, Melbourne (Australia) - Abilities
Arts Festival, Toronto - Int’l Disability Film Festival, Moscow (Russia)
- 1001 Documentary Film Festival, Istanbul (Turkey)
Aired on KQED (PBS in the United States),
TV in Greece, Sweden and Brazil.
Distributor: Fanlight Productions
-
We
Are Here Together (65
min), 2003
(Co-Producer – Director – Co-Cinematographer)
Documentary
about the tempestuous first year of an alternative charter high school in Alameda,
California, where the students have a say, too.
Denver
Int’l Film Festival; Mill Valley Film Festival
-
I
Will Not Be Sad In This World (56
min), 2001
(Producer – Director – Director
of Cinematography)
Documentary about a 94-year-old Armenian woman who survived the genocide of her
people in 1915.
Armenian Film Festival (New York) - ARPA
Int’l Film Festival
(Los Angeles) - Denver Int’l Film Festival - Hot Springs Documentary
Film Festival - Memphis Int’l Film Festival - Pacific Film Archive
(Berkeley) - Seattle Int’l Film Festival - World Affairs Council (San
Francisco) - Naregatsi Film Institute (Yerevan, Armenia)
-
Women’s
Rites (37
min), 2000
(Director – Writer – Director
of Cinematography)
Video featuring women studying Expressive Arts Therapy with Anna & Daria Halperin.
-
Voices
From Inside (60
min), 1996 Distributor:
New Day Films
(Producer – Director – Writer)
Documentary about women in prison and their children on the outside.
***National
Council on Crime and Delinquency's PASS
Award.
USA
Film Festival (Finalist) - Windy City Int’l Documentary Festival
(Honorable Mention) - Arizona Int’l Film Festival - Charlotte
Film & Video Festival - Denver Int’l Film Festival - Parnu
Int’l Documentary Film Festival (Finland).
Aired on PBS stations - Link TV cable network.
Distributor: New Day Films
-
i.e.Deutschland (9
min), 1988
(Producer – Director – Writer – Actress)
Video invoking
the memory of growing up in post-war
Germany in the shadow of the Holocaust, based on the
one-woman show with same title.
Mill
Valley Film Festival
- Labyrinthian (20
min), 1984
(Producer – Director – Actress – Music/Sound
Design)
Video
about the interior of longing and obsession set a poem by Greek poet Nanos
Valaoritis.
Stockholm
Int’l Film Festival; Atlanta Film Festival; Mill Valley Film Festival
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