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Film and Video Credits


Editor, Cinematographer, Co-director
Estranhos Poemas: Escritos de Claudina Pereira
[In progress]
Experimental documentary using the writings of Claudina Pereira, a psychiatric patient at Hospital Sao Pedro in Porto Alegre, Brazil.

Co-director, Photographer
Pequenas Acoes Terroristas

Closing video of a year-long dance-performance piece.

Associate Producer/Editor
WGBH,
Teachers' Domain [3/2005 - present]
Produce and acquire content from WGBH productions and other sources and edit 5-minute segments for classroom use.

Editor
Bitter/Sweet, Sifting the Inner Belt, Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts
[2005]
Dual-monitor video installation featuring expressions of individuals taste-testing sweet and bitter melons.

Editor
Studio7Arts, Screening Room with Robert Gardner
[6/2004 - 10/2006]
DVD series of Screening Room with Robert Gardner, including interviews with Jean Rouch, Robert Breer, Ricky Leacock, Les Blank, Yvonne Rainer and others.

Co-editor
Discovery Science Channel, My Brilliant Chimps: Raising Keeli and Ivy [2004]
Two-hour re-version of Discovery Channel's "Keeli and Ivy: Chimps Like Us" charting the progress of an experiment to teach chimpanzees to read through the use of touch-screen computers.

Associate Producer, Assistant Editor
WGBH/FRONTLINE: Dangerous Prescription [2003]
Hour-long TV documentary on the integrity of the current safety system at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).


Producer, Director, Editor, Sound Recordist
Family Investigation Bureau
[2002]
Verité-style promotional and training video for family history education project for the Bureau of Jewish Education of San Francisco.

Production Manager
2002 Newport International Film Festival Trailer
[2002]
35-mm dramatic short.

Editor
Changing from Inside [2002]
Educational video for the Solano County Jail about a reformed bank robber-turned-writer.

Assistant Editor, Motion Graphics Editor
Alaska Far Away [In progress]
Historical documentary on the Matanuska Colony in Alaska.

Director, Cinematographer, Editor
Bud, Blossom, Bloom [2002]
Super-8/video short about pregnancy through three seasons of a rose garden.

Cinematographer, Editor
Exercise
[2000]
Hand-processed Super-8 mm film. Screened at the "Texture of the Gesture: a Celebration of Hand-Processed Films," San Francisco Cinematheque, April 16, 2000.