Promotional video for The Marshall Project, an investigative journalism organization that publishes stories exclusively on the US criminal justice system, with an eye towards reforming it. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, The Marshall Project runs its own award-winning online site, partners with major National news organizations, and covers groundbreaking stories which grace the covers of local newspapers - all in the name of getting to the truth behind the flawed criminal justice system.
:30 second 'poetic' piece designed for hotel's social media platforms, emphasizing specific aspects of the brand's indentity, this one being the many spaces and objects within the hotel's walls.
:30 second 'poetic' piece designed for hotel's social media platforms, emphasizing specific aspects of the brand's indentity, this one being its proximity to the outdoor splendors of the Berkshires.
A brand film created for the Red Lion Inn, an historic inn located in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in the heart of the Berkshires. Here, the client directive was to highlight the diversity of experiences, spaces and guests at the hotel, and to emphasize the property's important place in the cultural life of the region.
The artist Alexis Rockman discusses his monumental 2003 work 'Manifest Destiny,' a speculative painting depicting the Brooklyn waterfront after it has been ravaged by the effects of climate change. Part of a documentary series about artists told through the making of one work of art.
The long form version of a video cycle created to celebrate Tricycle Magazine's 25th Anniversary, which premiered at Tricycle's Benefit Gala in December of 2016. The non-profit journal is dedicated to disseminating the Buddha's teachings and exploring Buddhism's dialogue with the West.
Parts 1 - 4 and closing/exit sequence of a film cycle commissioned for the Healing the Divide Concert for Peace and Reconciliation at Lincoln Center, which benefited Richard Gere's Healing the Divide, a non-profit organization which promotes understanding, cooperation and innovative solutions to issues that threaten the welfare and prosperity of people and communities around the world. The films served as interstitials between performances by Anoushka Shankar, Philip Glass, and Tom Waits, among others.
Promotional video for FilmAid International, a humanitarian aid organization that uses the power of film and video to address the needs of displaced people around the world. Whether screening films to tens of thousands of refugees and displaced, or helping communities tell their own stories using film and video as a communication medium, FilmAid’s programs have been proven to educate, improve refugee health and self-esteem, break the monotony and isolation of refugee life and reduce stigma, tension and conflict. Narrated by Marisa Tomei.
Introductory video for the Paris fashion show of Etam's Pret a Porter collection, Le Cabaret Sauvage, Parc de la Villette, 2010.
Brief video portrait of Tiawan S. Gongloe, former solicitor general of Liberia and human rights activist, created as part of Human Rights Watch Defender series, which was shown at the Human Rights Watch Annual Benefit. As a student activist in the late 1970's, Gongloe was imprisoned and beaten for speaking out against the government of then-president William Tolbert, and later for speaking out against President Charles Taylor. A human rights lawyer—one of the first in Liberia—Gongloe remained in Liberia throughout the worst time. Although he lived briefly as an exile in the United States, his goal was always to return to his home country: to "change Liberia for the better."
Short video 'portrait' of education pioneer and author Jonathan Kozol, made to commemorate Kozol winning the annual Puffin Prize, given to an individual who has challenged the status quo through distinctive, courageous, imaginative and socially responsible work of significance.
Designed as a tribute to the work of Founder Victor Navasky, 'State of the Nation' recaps the history and ideas behind the Nation Magazine as well as the efforts of their nonprofit outreach division, The Nation Institute. Featuring former Nation editor Victor Navasky, current Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel, Paul Newman, Richard Serra, Mother Jones Washington bureau chief David Corn, and several others.
