Seeking Mavis Beacon is in theaters now.
Coming to IFC Center in NYC and LA, Oakland, SF, Atlanta and more throughout Sept.
House on Coco Road streaming again
You can catch it now streaming on Kanopy!
EMMY NOMINATION for “ABOUT TOMORROW”
The lovely short I edited with director Steven Tabakin about the brilliant pianist Matthew Whitaker was nominated for a NY Emmy in the Documentary Cultural Category!
STONE TO PAPER now on PBS All Arts
My short film about my mom, sculptor Joan Fine is streaming on PBS All Arts. Check it out here https://www.allarts.org/programs/all-arts-documentary-selects/stone-to-paper-wpmykg/
JAZZ DAY LIVE FROM CUBA ON PBS
An historic celebration of music and cultural diplomacy, “Jazz Day Live from Cuba” was filmed in the Gran Teatro Theater in Havana in 2017. I directed the show which was simultaneously broadcast on CubaTV and streamed worldwide. Hosted by Will Smith and Quincy Jones, the concert features Chucho Valdes, Esperanza Spalding, Richard Bona, Herbie Hancock, Cassandra Wilson and Kurt Elling. Catch the show which is being rebroadcasting during April on PBS. Find out more about International Jazz Day at www.jazzday.com.
COCO ROAD
The House on Coco Road is on the road. The film’s been screened at the LA Film Fest, NYDOCS, Oakland’s Matutu Fes, Miami’s Third Horizon Film Festival and is heading to Bahamas, Grenada and the UK soon. Follow the film at www.thehouseoncocoroad.com.
KIDS AGAINST MALARIA CAMPAIGN LAUNCH
With grants from UNICEF, USAID and US Embassy in Benin we helped to launch an awareness campaign to help in the fight to eradicate malaria. The project which features Angelique Kidjo is supported by Harvard, CDC and the Peace Corps and was initiated by students at CIAMO, a music and arts school in Ouidah, Benin. Read about how the project came to be at NOISEY/ VICE Magazine. Click Here.
And click here to support the KIDS AGAINST MALARIA Campaign. 100% proceeds and donations go to the UN Foundation’s Nothing But Nets, Harvard Defeat Malaria Initiative and the CIAMO School of Arts & Music.
RIVER OF GOLD
We’ve just locked picture on the edit of “River of Gold”. The film is premiering in DC at the Environmental Film Festival on March 26th, 2016. “River of Gold” follows war photographer Ron Haviv and journalist Donovan Webster deep into the Peruvian rainforest to investigate the destruction being caused by gold mining.
MILAN WORLD’S FAIR
Working with Ralph Applebaum Associates, the world’s largest museum exhibition design firm, I edited a film made up of 200 screens mounted to a matrix of bamboo scaffolding. The forest of screens and bamboo floats above a winding reflecting pool that borders the visitor pathway. The project was a collaboration with architect Daniel Libeskind, who designed the Vanke Pavilion which opened at the World Expo in Milan 2015. See more info here and at the EXPO. Click on the slideshow to see more images.
JAZZ DAY : LIVE AT THE UNITED NATIONS
Jazz Day : Live At the United Nations starts airing on PBS throughout April. Check local PBS for times…
http://www.pbs.org/program/international-jazz-day/
BARNEY’S: ANDREW ZUCKERMAN AND DRIES VAN NOTEN
I recently edited four films, directed by Andrew Zuckerman, as a collaboration with designer Dries Van Noten, whose design career was recently celebrated by Barney’s and the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.
The short films entitled “Cycle,” “Emergence,” “Flight,” and “Variance,”play with compression and expansion of time and motion, illustrating transient moments in nature: flowers blooming and decaying, a butterfly emerging from a cocoon, birds taking flight…
Check them out while they’re playing in Barney’s windows for the next 3 weeks at 660 Madison Ave… on a hypnotic loop day and night.
GIRL, ADOPTED
“Girl, Adopted” is now airing on PBS starting Sunday September 26th on “Global Voices”
For more info about screenings check out:
http://itvs.org/films/girl-adopted/
If your PBS affiliate doesn’t carry Global Voices, or you miss the broadcasts, it will stream at http://worldchannel.org/programs/episode/girl-adopted/ for 30 days after the premiere.
THE AFTERPARTY
“The Afterparty”, a doc I shot and produced with my cousin director Michael Schiller, is now airing on LINKTV and is available streaming for free on Snag Films…watch it in it’s entirety here….
GIRL, ADOPTED
Stills from a documentary I shot at the the Layla House orphanage in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The film “Girl, Adopted” directed by Susan Motamed (producer of “Enron”) and Melanie Judd (producer of “Day NIght, Day Night) received the ITVS development fund and the Sundance Institute’s Documentary film Grant. It is nearing completion after 6 years of production following the kids from the orphanage to their new families…
