Call of Life
Co-Producer, Editor
The first feature-length documentary to fully investigate the growing threat posed by the rapid and massive loss of biodiversity on the planet, exploring the scope, the causes, and predicted global impact of a mass extinction occurring on a scale not seen since the disappearance of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
Greywater Sub Floor Plumbing
Producer, Director, Editor
Promotional Documentary, 3 mins
Bay Maples Wild California Gardens is a residential landscaping firm in San Jose, CA that converts water-hogging yards into native edible landscapes watered by free rainwater from the sky and re-used greywater from the house. This is one of almost 250 videos of various lengths I've made for them.
Planting Day
Producer, Director, Editor
Promotional Documentary, 1:29 mins
A shorter, faster video for Bay Maples. Fun, colorful, informative.
Wavecrest Adolescent Community
Producer, Director, Editor
Promotional Documentary, 26 mins
The Santa Cruz Montessori Adolescent program (named "Wavecrest") is specially designed to create a nurturing environment where adolescents are respected and cared for, providing them ample opportunities to perform service that cultivates responsibility for the planet and humanity; to work hard, be challenged, be responsible; and to build and define themselves as citizens of a community and the world.
College Counts
Director, Videographer, Editor
Promotional Documentary, 7 mins
A report by Topos Partnership on The Arkansas Career Pathways Initiative, a partnership between community colleges, workforce development agencies, employers and social service providers. This is a 7-minute digest of a more detailed 30-minute research report video.
Topos Partnership
Video Producer, Director, Editor
My longtime day job was with a cultural research consultant group making short documentaries on social interest issues. I interviewed uncountable hundreds of regular citizens about their thoughts on a broad range of subjects, all across the USA, in Canada and the UK, and made untold numbers of report videos of varying length and complexity.
Free Food
Writer, Director, Editor
Absurdist comedy, 16 min
A teenager navigates the confusing rules at a food booth, charting a bruising course toward abundance.
Boyz n the Wood
Writer, Director
Comedy-Drama, 115 pp.
A men's team on a weekend campout in the mountains mistakes a fugitive street gang leader for their adventure guide. This is a selection of demo scenes with mostly amateur actors.
Ophidia
Writer
Screenplay, psychological horror, 111 pp
A nightmare vision of a former activist getting over a bad breakup with the help of a dominatrix who induces him to hallucinate a giant snake – but her intentions darken, and he discovers he's not hallucinating.
Radiance
Writer
Screenplay, lyrical relationship drama, 84 pp.
Sheila is the girl of Ron's dreams, but she's dating his best friend Damon – until Ron is inspired to act by his artist-wiccan housemate Kate, and a course at the junior college called Nature and Eros.
The Distraction
Writer, Director, Editor
Drama, 86 min
In this dark indie flick, a husband, Paul, struggles to control his unraveling psychological state when he discovers the seamy details about his wife's life before they married. But instead of coping, he develops an unhealthy obsession with a colleague at the company he's temping for.
Radiance scene sketch 1
Writer, Director
Animatic of the opening scene, with stock footage and storyboard sketches
Radiance scene sketch 2
Writer, Director
Rough-in of another scene with borrowed stock shots