Andscape, The Walt Disney Company Black-led media platform, will debut a five-part documentary series Algiers, America: The Relentless Pursuit, streaming exclusively as a Hulu Original on April 19. Directed by Jackson Fager (VICE News, HBO’s Fighting ISIS), the documentary tells the story of a successful high school football program in a community struggling with gun violence.

Summoning Sylvia premieres in 21 cities March 31!

These three brilliant films I worked on this year screen at Tribeca 2021!

Landfall by Cecelia Aldarando is acquired for POV. Chris White, Executive Producer of POV, says,

“Cecilia’s masterpiece is both a sharp condemnation of the continued colonial exploitation of Puerto Rico and a warm embrace of the land and her people. Rendered with a singular vision and deep affection, you’ll be swept into solidarity with these native Puerto Ricans who resist and rebuild.”

Two Gods, Directed by Zeshawn and Aman Ali, premieres at Hot Docs and is reviewed in the Hollywood Reporter.

The gripping and exhaustively researched Down a Dark Stairwell that I graded with director Ursula Liang, premieres at Human Rights Watch Film Festival at Lincoln Center and is reviewed in The Nation here

Two beautiful films I graded recently premiere at Tribeca Film Festival 2020, Wake up on Mars, directed by Dea Gjinovci and Landfall, directed by Cecelia Aldarondo,

Wake Up on Mars

Landfall

Sunken Treasure has its European Premiere at the Art Kino Croatia, in Rijeka where I did all the underwater production with the support of the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Rijeka. The screening program, SciFi Geographies had an all-star lineup of Hrvoslava Brkusic, Pia Borg, Cecelia Condit, and Jeanne Liotta.

The Unicorn, which I graded with directors Tim Geraghty and Isabelle Dupuis, has its US theatrical premiere at Anthology Film Archives Feb 15 - 21!

An extraordinary, years-in-the-making documentary about outsider musician Peter Grudzien, the one-man musical force behind “The Unicorn,” which has been described as possibly the first openly gay country album, and the “greatest New York LP since the first Velvet Underground or first New York Dolls” by music critic Paul Major. “THE UNICORN is at once an invaluable act of cultural excavation, an unforgettable character study, and a cracked family portrait in the vein of Terry Zwigoff’s CRUMB. But while it may superficially resemble other biographical documentaries, it’s unusually alert to the messy contradictions and intermingling of creative inspiration and mental psychosis that characterize its remarkable subject, his even more unhinged family members, and by extension American culture itself. Ultimately it’s a powerful depiction of a troubled soul for whom music represents a vitally important survival mechanism in the midst of a difficult existence.”,

I recently graded this sly and well made piece at Dungeon Beach for broadcast on Hulu. The Department of Reproductive Control is not a real U.S. Government Agency, but all of the policies described in the spot are. It, along with the accompanying DRC site, are part of a new satirical campaign that aims to show what could actually happen if the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, under the Trump Administration, is able to make its proposed changes to Title X, “the only federal grant that is solely dedicated to the provision of family-planning funding, with a focus on serving low-income populations.”

My new film Sunken Treasure premiered at the 56th Ann Arbor Film Festival and took home the Gil Omenn Art and Science Award!

Lila Yomtoob has taken her short "America 1979" which we graded together and developed it into a television pilot, which was invited to IFP Week's slate of Long-Form Scripted Content. Written and produced by Lila, each season this anthology series follows a different household or community through a different year, re-telling contemporary American history through the eyes of its people.

Thanks again to Blackmagic for this extensive interview with me on the color grade for Weediquette Season 3, now up on Mac Directory.

Nothing Without Us: The Women Who Will End AIDS premieres at IFC in New York on November 11. DI sessions with Director Harriet Hirshorn done at Dungeon Beach, thanks to Tim Korn.

Thanks to Stephanie Hueter at BMD for this interview on the grade for Weediquette, and for featuring me in their press release on Viceland.

Black Market with Michael K Williams takes home the award for Documentary-Reality at the Realscreen awards, with Weediquette announced for Non Fiction-Science and Reality

No Film School interviewed me recently about the production phase of my upcoming film, Sunken Treasure

for the opener of the Late Show with Steven Colbert, Spike Jonze created a short film with Grover from Sesame Street. We graded it to the gray, chilly morning light that greets Steven Colbert as he wakes up, having slept in Central Park, and makes an unexpected friend.

VICELAND launched recently, and the first season of shows I graded for them went on air. Working with Niharika Desai, Nick Carew, and Krishna Andavalou has been a rewarding collaboration, and both Gaycation and Weediquette have been renewed for a second season!

Ellen and Ian in Tokyo

Ellen and Ian talk to LGBT youth living in dangerous circumstances in Jamaica

gypsy growers in Mendocino County

Krishna meets women selling weed in the Congo, gets called a white boy and does their laundry

Good Ol' Boy, directed by Frank Lotito and starring Jason Lee and Anjul Nigam, premieres at the Seattle International Film Festival and starts the festival circuit.