Documentary about the resurgence of Jewish culture in Estonia follows one family as they celebrate Passover for the first time in 40 years.

Documentary on the censorship controversy in America involving pornography, art and blasphemy.

Writers Frederic Tuten and Jerome Charyn visit the Bronx to recall the world of their childhood.

In the run up to Christmas, New Yorkers indulge in an annual shopping frenzy.

Nine Voices of Resilience

A feature-length documentary that tells the story of nine young men and women constructing postive lives as they face the challenges of growing up poor in one of America's most famous African American communities.

Discovery Channel
Producer and Director
Golden Eagle Award, 1994
Cable Ace, 1994

The Execution of Antonio James

Documentary looks at capital punishment with the story of Antonio James who was sentenced to death for first degree murder 15 years ago. He has served those years on death row at Louisiana's State Penitentiary at Angola, the oldest and largest maximum security facility in America. - NYTimes

Producer and Director
Golden Eagle Award, 1996
Emmy Winner, 1996
Cable Ace, 1996

Life Inside Angola Prison

This documentary intimately captured the day-to-day reality of six men living – and dying – in America’s largest and oldest penal institution. In the process, it captured their innate humanity, and the relationships and community that they built to sustain one another.

For A&E and Channel Four International
Producer and Director
Grand Jury Prize, Sundance, 1998
Academy Award Nominee, 1998
4 Emmy Nominations, 2 Emmy Awards, 2000

Inside Scientology

This film provides an unbiased look at the Church of Scientology and its relationship to the worlds of psychiatry, government, and the media. It looks back on the life of the church's founder, L. Ron Hubbard, and provides insight into the basic spiritual principles and beliefs of the Church. The story is told through exclusive interviews with ex-church members, religious legal experts, authors and affiliates.

For A&E
Producer

Guns In America is an hour-long program that explores America’s love affair with guns. Part of a five-part series, the film is an effort to find common ground in a polorized nation where one side sees guns as a symbol of violence, and the other as a bastion of individual freedom and defense.

For the Discovery Channel
Executive Producer

The Angola Prison Rodeo

October brings rodeo season to Angola State Penitentiary. Over six thousand people gather at the prison to watch the inmate cowboys risk their lives in some of the most dangerous and bizarre rodeo events in the nation.

For the Discovery Channel
Producer
Academy Award, Nominee, 2000
IDA Short Documentary Winner, 2000

The role of a rodeo clown has evolved from being a job, into being a sport. This film follows rodeo clown Rob Smets back into the ring after his second broken neck.

For the Discovery Channel
Producer

The Addicts Rehabilitation Center (Ar.R.C.) in Harlem is one of the oldest rehab facilities in the country. This is the story three individuals struggling with addiction.

The State VS. 85188 Vincent Simmons

Following the success of THE FARM, we received letters from throughout the world about the Vincent Simmons parole board scene. This film weaves together a complicated story about rape, survival, incarceration and healing.

For A&E Network, WDR, Germany and Channel Four
Producer and Director

A 13-part series that follows the lives of big and small players in the casinos of Las Vegas.

For the Discovery Channel
Executive Producer

Life In St. Gabriel's Women's Prison

78% of incarcerated women in the nation are mothers. This film follows three inmates at St. Gabriel Women’s Prison, Louisiana’s only maximum security correctional institute for women, and explores the theme of mothering behind bars.

For A&E Network and Channel Four
Producer

Three families navigate the unpredictable terrain of a neonatal intensive care unit. The inevitable shifts in each baby’s condition provide dramatic twists that challenge family stability and redefine parental love. Nurses and doctors reveal the challenges and rewards of working in the NICU, as well as complex ethical issues that they face.

These three one-hour episodes follow several inmates at Dixon Correctional Institute (DCI) in Louisiana as they deal with their crimes, doing serious time, and getting out. Watch as inmates learn to accept their crimes - from burglary to murder - and process their emotions as they face parole board.


For The Learning Channel (TLC)
Executive Producer

Three one-hour episodes that follow inmates and their health situations at Louisiana State Penitentiary, David Wade/Fort Wade Correctional Facility, and Louisiana Correctional Institute for Women (LCIW).

For Discovery Health Channel
2001
Executive Producer

Rite of Passage

An in-depth look at the practice of piercing the body and its meaning to different people around the world. The film takes us from the fashionable, youth oriented body piercing fad found in the US to remote parts of Africa and South Asia, where piercing the body represents such things as religious devotion and tribal identity.

For The Discovery Channel and Granada TV
2001
Producer

Prison Rape in America

This short documentary takes the viewer to the heart of the prison rape problem, to meet the victims and the perpetrators, the indifferent officials as well as the isolated reformist administrators. The film not only explores the inside of prisons where rape is rampant but also the incarceration houses where it has been drastically reduced.

For Human Rights Watch
2001
Executive Producer

Crime in the Crescent City

Two-part series about New Orleans criminal justice system, including the homicide division, the District Attorney's office, the pathologist and a public defendant.

For Court TV
2001
Producer

A feature-length documentary that takes the audience inside the brutal world of prison boxing. At the center of the film is Clifford “The Black Rhino” Etienne, a former inmate of Angola State Penitentiary, who now fights professionally and is considered a contender for the heavyweight crown.

For Discovery Channel
2001
Producer

Shaky Ground and Monarch Butterflies

For National Geographic
2001
Segment Producer

New York City is held together by a constantly changing set of laws and rules that guide us through an otherwise chaotic urban environment. This 5-part series delves into the stories of the people who fill this city.

For A&E and Channel Four International
2001
Executive Producer

World Famous adventurer, Robert Young Pelton, takes us straight into the dark heart of the world's hot spots, war zones, terrorist dens and unforgiving regions showing us how to travel, explore, survive and come back alive.

For The Travel Channel, Discovery Canada and Granada
2002-2003
6x60 minutes
Series Executive Producer and
Episode Producer

Rebuilding Lives

A documentary that follows six people who face the extraordinary task of putting the pieces back together after their lives were shattered on September 11th.

For Discovery Channel's 9/11/02 Memorial
2002
Producer

Diary of an Afghan Woman

Since 1993, when she founded the U.S. based aid organization Help the Afghan Children, Suraya Sadeed has led eighteen relief missions to her homeland, smuggling food and supplies through Taliban-held territory and setting up often clandestine schools and medical clinics.

For Oxygen
2002
Executive Producer

This documentary follows the story of Margarita Rosario, founder of Parents Against Police Brutality, as she challenges the NYPD to justify the brutal murders of her son and nephew, who were killed by two young detectives in The Bronx.

For Sundance Channel
2001
Producer

All That is Gold Does Not Glitter

Less than 100 film critics wield enormous power in deciding the financial success of Hollywood's major motion pictures. The film takes a humorous look at one of the industry's most important award shows.

For Trio Channel
2003
Producer

An Uncivil War

In Liberia, the summer of 2003 was pure insanity: two armies were in the final battle of a fifteen-year civil war, holding the capital under siege while thousands died from mortar shells launched from afar. As the soldiers, mostly teenagers, fought a bloody urban battle, the nation prayed for American forces to show up and put an end to the violence.

For the Discovery Times Channel/BBC
Producer and Director
Two Emmy Nominations, 2005
Special Jury Prize, IDFA, 2004

Seventy-five inmates from Angola Prison and Louisiana Correctional Institution for Women, come together to perform the largest prison production of The Passion Play ever.

The film takes the viewer on a spiritual road trip from ancient Europe to modern Israel in a feature documentary that covers the terrain touched upon in Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Interviews were done with many of the leading teachers, art historians and spiritual guides of our time.

For Sony Home Video
2006
Director

This ten-part series follows Pulitzer Prize winning writer and reporter, Charlie LeDuff as he journeys through America's many subcultures. From a fight club in Oakland, to the gay rodeo in Oklahoma, from war re-enactors to male models, Charlie takes us deep into the diversity that is America.

For the Discovery Times Channel
2006
Series Executive Producer and
Episode Producer

Following a routine checkup Lori received a call from her doctor telling her she had breast cancer. Within days of her diagnosis, Lori began filming every detail of the experience. With warmth and humor, DEAR TALULA reveals the most uplifting details of one woman's fight for life.

2007
Co-Producer
Best Short: Ashland Independent Film Festival, 2007
International Cancer Film Festival, 2008

A look at the acheivements and struggles of Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, the first woman elected as President of the African nation of Liberia.

2007
Executive Producer
Audience Award - Top 3 International Films, Encounters South African International Documentary Festival
Best Documentary, Banff World Television Awards
Best Documentary Feature, AFI Dallas International Film Festival
Millennium Development Goals Award, One World Media Awards

A feature documentary about Snopp Dogg's experience as a young man facing the obstacles of growing up black and poor in California. Once a state renowned for its innovative juvenile justice system, California is now considered to have one of the worst systems in America.

For Spike TV
2007
Producer

In 1998 THE FARM - a film about six inmates in Angola Prison, Louisiana's maximum security penitentiary - received critical acclaim. Now, ten years later, we go back inside Angola to reconnect with our characters and witness first hand Time's impact on their spirits, their bodies, their sense of hope and their sense of purpose.

For National Geographic Channel
2009
Director

Short film for Amnesty International. Illustrates post civil war rebuilding in Liberia.

For Amnesty International
2008
Director

A documentary inspired by Liberian novelist Elma Shaw's moving novel Redemption Road. Elma's novel is the basis for this documentary to explore the stories of three women who were combatants in rebel armies during the civil war. This film celebrates the women of Liberia who together are building a future for this beleaguered African nation.

Documentary Short
2008
Producer/Director

Frackman tells the story of accidental activist Dayne Pratzky and his struggle against international gas companies.

The Last Catch

A urologist from Florida on a mission to save the planet "spreading the gospel of vasectomy". A modern day Don Quixote; part dreamer and part visionary committed to the impossible quest of lowering population on the planet, one vasectomy at a time.