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Professional Summary
Award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, and educator with decades of experience in independent film production, screenwriting, and higher education. Former full professor with an MFA from Columbia University and background in Peace Corps education. Veteran of over 20 films—including PBS broadcasts and festival award-winners—and a member emeritus of the Writers Guild of America (West). Seeks remote or hybrid opportunities in online teaching, screenwriting or documentary consultation, or content development.
Core Competencies
Award-winning filmmaker, screenwriter, and educator with decades of experience in independent film production, screenwriting, and higher education. Former full professor with an MFA from Columbia University and background in Peace Corps education. Veteran of over 20 films—including PBS broadcasts and festival award-winners—and a member emeritus of the Writers Guild of America (West). Seeks remote or hybrid opportunities in online teaching, screenwriting or documentary consultation, or content development.
Core Competencies
- Screenwriting & Script Development
- Independent Film & Documentary Direction
- Remote & In-Person Instruction (College & Secondary)
- Video Editing (Premiere, Avid)
- Storytelling for Advocacy & Social Impact
- Educational Content & Curriculum Design
- Production Mentorship & Student Thesis Supervision
INDEPENDENT FILM PRODUCTION, HIGHWAY FIVE PRDUCTIONS
VILLAGE AT THE END OF THE ROAD, 53 min. 2024. DIRECTOR, EDITOR
Doc on the fishing community of Bay de Verde, Newfoundland, a town with a 400-year history, now challenged by issues of climate change and societal shifts.
CANADA. Grants: Smallwood Fndtn, Memorial University of Newfoundland; Union College; Univ. of San Francisco.
A YEAR IN THE FIELD, 33 min. 2022, DIRECTOR, EDITOR VIDEOGRAPHER
Documentary on an Estonian anthropologist’s fieldwork in Bay de Verde, NL. Grants from Canadian govt. OTM Project; the National Science Foundation; Union College; and the Univ. of San Francisco. RAI (Int. Festival of Ethnographic Film) and others. Distributor: Documentary Educational Resources
WALK WITH US, 28 min., 2019. CO-DIRECTOR –EDITOR with Judy Jackson.
https://vimeo.com/3166 Social Change Festival, Chicago, and multiple others.
A film about the migrant crisis as seen through the eyes of a safe house director, Pastor Ignacio Martinez.
TO HEAR THE MUSIC, 2014. Hour-long doc about Gloucester organ builder CB Fisk, and Opus 139, a multi-million-dollar instrument which played its debut concert in its new home, Harvard University’s Memorial Church. www.tohearthemusic.com Broadcast premiere April 2014, NHPTV (PBS)
Festivals: Visións du Réel, Woods Hole. In 2015, via NETA, broadcast on 250 PBS stations throughout USA.
GRINGOLANDIA, 54 min, 2011. PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/ EDITOR. Doc about the impact & experience of Americans in Mexican colonial city. Production grants, Endicott College. Distributor: Documentary Educational Resources
SEEKING THE 36, 2009. 30 min. CO-DIRECTOR/WRITER/ EDITOR. Doc on the Lamed Vov, kabbalic myth of the 36 just souls. Grants from Harold Grinspoon Fndtn, Springfield MA.
Pioneer Valley Jewish Film Festival, Utopia Film Festival (2010).
PITSTOP, 2001. PRODUCER/WRITER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR. 91 min.
35mm feature road movie set in California’s Central Valley. Nine characters cross paths in a truckstop, find and lose love, move on. Grant from Panavision. Festivals include Wine Country, Welsh Intl, MFA Boston, IFFM, Woods Hole, Rhode Island Broadcast WGBH, spring ’01 and numerous times thereafter. 35mm premiere April 2001, NY Intl. Independent Film/Video Fest.
3AM ETERNAL, 1999. 18 min. DIRECTOR. A troubled Vietnam vet is given the opportunity to go back and save a dead buddy.
Festivals: Dances with Films, Newport Beach.
AS LUCK WOULD HAVE IT, 1995, 25 min. DIRECTOR.
Comic short about a magic crystal. Cine Golden Eagle.
BOOMING, 1982, 60 min. PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/WRITER/EDITOR.
Documentary on mobile home living in a Wyoming uranium mining town in mid-winter. Grants: Wyoming Council for Humanities; CUNY Research Foundation; Screenings: Park City, Denver, Popoli, Edinburgh, Sinking Creek (Producer Award). Screened Museum of Modern Art, NY; Broadcast PBS.
PHANS OF JERSEY CITY, 1980, 50 min. CO-DIRECTOR/CAMERAMAN.
Documentary on Vietnamese family of 20 struggling with life in USA.
Grants: AFI Independent Filmmaker, NEA, NY State Council on the Arts, NJ Arts Council, NJ Humanities Council, NJ Public Television, MERC.
Festivals: American (Red Ribbon), Popoli, New Directors /New Films.
Broadcast PBS, Sale to Dutch, Danish, Australian television.
Distributor: Documentary Educational Resources (DER)
TEACHING FILM/VIDEO PRODUCTION
ENDICOTT COLLEGE, BEVERLY, School of Comm., Sept 2001—Sept 2013 FULL PROFESSOR. Courses include Writing for the Screen, Intro to Digital Film, Narrative Production, Documentary Production, Documentary Modes, TV Studio, Political Communication, Senior Internship, Senior Thesis Film
EMERSON COLLEGE, BOSTON (1999-2010). ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (Adjunct) Undergrad Program, Visual/Media Arts: Sync-Sound Production Workshop; Business of Independent Film. Spring 2008: Narrative Workshop, Master’s Program in Visual/Media Arts.
PHILLIPS ACADEMY, ANDOVER Art Dept (Jan.’97 – Aug. 2004).
Video production with film studies/history component. AVID instruction.
SCHOOL OF THE MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON. Film Area. (1997-2000). Scriptwiting, 16mm Basic and Advanced, Film Collaborative Workshop, Editing.
Documentary Production
BOSTON UNIVERSITY, BOSTON Dept. of Broadcast and Film. 1996. VISITING ASST. PROFESSOR teaching Advanced Screenwriting, Directors on Directing, and Directing Theatrical & TV Film.
BROOKS INSTITUTE, Santa Barbara. 1989-1996. UNRANKED.
Screenwriting and Directing, 16mm Documentary Production, Narrative Post-production, Directed student written/produced/crewed/ edited half-hour narrative 3 times yearly, a total of 18 half-hour films.
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF THE ARTS, Valencia. 1990-1993. UNRANKED. School of Film/Video. The Responsive Camera (Documentary Production), Film Production Workshop, Film Grammar. Applications Review, and thesis committee reviews.
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, 1982-1983. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Undergraduate School of Film and Television. Narrative Workshop, Sight and Sound (intensive 16mm workshop), Cinematography.
BROOKLYN COLLEGE (CUNY), 1977-1981. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR.
All levels Production Courses, Cinematography, and Intro to Film.
SCREENWRITING: member emeritus WGAW.
JOAN OF THE REDWOOD Teenager hears voices, sits in tree, saves town.
BAGGAGE Ensemble piece set in airport.
PIT STOP (dir/prod) Nine travelers meet - a black comedy.
TRANSIT (optioned) Serial murder in the NY subways.
INVERSION Environmental disaster thriller.
THE 36 (optioned) Comedy-adventure based on Jewish myth.
ONE DAY OF LIFE Courage, community & death in El Salvador.
Adaptation of Manlio Argueta novel, Bloomgarden Prods.
FROM THE PLAINS Life of Georgia O’Keefe.
URANIUM FEVER A prospector’s story set in the ‘50’s.
BOOK: How to Make an Indie Feature: Shooting Roadkill.
Novel/memoir about making of Pitstop.
EDUCATION
The American Film Institute, LA., Directing Fellow.
Wrote, directed and edited three half-hour dramas.
Columbia University, School of the Arts, NY, MFA in Film (honors). National awards for thesis film, CROCK OF GOLD
US Peace Corps, Ethiopia. Taught English.
Haverford College, BA, Honors. English, conc. in American Literature.
DOCUMENTARY FILM/TAPE EXPERIENCE, COMMERCIAL
SAN MIGUEL WRITERS CONFERENCE, 2017, 2025
Documentary and Promotional Videos.
FEED THE HUNGRY, SAN MIGUEL, 2017.
Produce/shoot/edit short promo piece for local charity.
DIALOGUES WITH MOTHER EARTH, Ongoing.
Produce/shoot/edit videos promoting my wife’s climate change murals project.
SAN MIGUEL ARCHIVE PROJECT, 2015-Present
Shooting and Editing a series of archival interviews with long-time residents of San Miguel de Allende: www.youtube.com/channel/UCIXgq5OAXvjrcH5T3qP2tSw
Endicott College, 2007-08: This Land is Our Land, 17 min. PRODUCER of student crewed/directed project about the 2008 New Hampshire primary election.
2006: Short promotional tape documenting the college’s Mexico Culture and Community Service Project. PRODUCER/ EDITOR.
Samuel Bak: The Art of Speaking the Unspeakable, 2001. Documentary on a Boston painter and Holocaust survivor. EDITOR. CPS Prods.
Redefining the American Dream: Cambridge College Capital Campaign, 2001. EDITOR. Warner & Company.
The Cop and the Criminal, 2001, A&E Channel. EDITOR of hour-long doc on Boston gangster Whitey Bulger (for Stuart TV).
Hooked: History of Illegal Drugs, 2000, History Channel. EDITOR,
hour-long doc on Marijuana, one of four for Tera Media, Boston.
Inside the Big Dig, 2000, Discovery Channel/ABC co-production. EDITOR.
Hour long report on nation's largest highway project: Stuart TV.
Zamir: Jewish Voices Return to Eastern Europe, 2000, CO-EDITOR. PBS Pledge Drive doc on Boston chorale's return to Europe, where namesake group was wiped out by Nazis. Spy Pond Prods/CPS.
Art at Andover, 2000. WRITER/PRODUCER/DIRECTOR/EDITOR
Admissions tape for the Art Dept. at Phillips Academy Andover. Also Music At Andover (for the music dept) and Andover: A World of Languages, (for the language division), 1999.
The American Internet Story, 1999. EDITOR, for Stuart TV.
Documentary on a business startup.
At the Grass Roots, with Robert Reich, 1998. EDITOR, for Stuart TV. PBS Nov. 1998. Pre-election journey to the Ohio River Valley.
LA Mission, 1995, PRODUCER-DIRECTOR-WRITER. Promotional tape on learning program for homeless.
Focus on Africa, 1994, WRITER. Promo for Anderson Photo Safaris.
Brooks Institute, 1993, WRITER. Promo tape for the film school.
AT&T Information Management, Morristown, 1985, WRITER/PRODUCER.
Northeast Utilities, Northfield, 1983, EDITOR.
NORTHFIELD MOUNTAIN, a film for tour visitors to hydroelectric plant.
Fidelity Corporation, Boston, 1982,WRITER/PRODUCER/DIRECTOR.
Videotapes on IRA corporate funds.
