FILM
Open Secret (director)
a sponsored project of IFP
At 18, a Kansas farm boy is told a shocking secret about his identity, sending him on a 20-year search for the truth.
(Currently in production.)
Waiting For Hockney (assistant director)
Official Selection 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
Official Selection 2008 Toronto Hot Docs Festival
To draw the impossible: that is what Maryland artist Billy Pappas set out to do in the early '90s. His self-imposed Sisyphean task was to capture what is normally unseen in portraiture-each pore, each individual strand of hair. He used a 20x magnifying glass while standing in front of his easel, seven hours a day for the next eight and a half years, painstakingly doing just that. He became something of a hermit, all the while convinced that he was pushing art to new heights. After four years, he created a sling system to hold his aching arms in place while drawing. After five years, his family and friends feared for his sanity. His obsessive pursuit of excellence was matched only by his obsessive pursuit of an audience with fabulously successful modern artist David Hockney once his opus was complete.
40th Anniversary Center Stage (director)
A short documentary commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Baltimore's Center Stage.
Remembering the Integration of Baltimore Schools
For a symposium commemorating the 50th Anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education, I produced several short audio slideshows of Baltimore citizens remembering the integration of Baltimore public schools.