Khakassia, East Siberia (Dreamtime)
FILM / VIDEO / MULTI-MEDIA
Stories told well can spark awareness, change a mind, or move mountains… even save them.
Portfolio - Film, video, audio, interactive, immersive, and multi-image media productions of varying scale and complexity for a wide variety of organizations, audiences, and venues.
Inspiration - “Lovejoy’s Nuclear War,” “Koyaanisqatsi”, an indelible Public Radio documentary on the Sea Island Gullah.
Interests - In a time of environmental anxiety and calamity, positive stories of people and organizations engaged in creating solutions, gritty David and Goliath accounts from the environmental trenches, celebrations of scientists deciphering natural processes.
Recent Documentary Productions
BURNED: Are Trees the New Coal? (2017) Audience Award /American Conservation Film Festival (2017)
Associate Producer/Outreach & Engagement - one of three filmmakers for Marlboro Production’s feature-length documentary exposé of the biomass industry’s little-known and controversial practice of burning trees to generate electricity as a solution for climate change. The film was accepted at 14 festivals, won the Audience Award at the American Conservation Film Festival, and continues to be screened by forest conservation groups and activists around the world.
“An invaluable tool for engaging people to take action!”
Best Day Ever: Forest Days in Vermont Kindergartens (2018) Vermont International Film Festival (2019)
Director/Writer/Camera/Sound - A short on the forest kindergarten movement in Vermont. The film was selected for the Vermont International Film Festival regional films competition and has been broadcast on VTPBS and Maine PBS. It is screened regularly for school administrators, teachers, parents, and at educational conferences worldwide. The film chronicles the benefits of getting pre-schoolers out in nature. Produced for Antioch University New England.
“a beautiful little film” “charming, evocative, and compelling”
Turning School Inside Out: Nature Based Education in a NH School (2019) Monadnock International Film Festival (2020)
Director/Writer/Camera/Sound - What happens when a school purchases a parcel of adjacent land and commits itself to figuring out how to use the land to improve student learning and well-being? This short doc tells the story of how one ordinary school is becoming extraordinary by transforming its curriculum and culture. Accepted by the Monadnock International Film Festival, the film is being used with school administrators, teachers, parents, and for teacher training and at conferences to demonstrate the benefits of this educational approach and movement. Produced for Antioch University New England.
“Wow! It is wonderful on so many levels… I'm sure this film will reinvigorate the momentum for outdoor learning that has begun.”
Building Bridges to Community (2018)
Director/Writer/Camera/Sound - A 15-minute video about the Fellowship Program of the Alliance for Watershed Education of the Delaware River. Used for fundraiser program promotion, to recruit new fellows from diverse local communities, and to improve program visibility with the general public. Produced for the Alliance for Watershed Education.
Selected Museum Media Productions
Smithsonian, National Museum of the American Indian, NY Producer/Director/Writer - 13 productions including exhibit video, touch-screen video, projection video, and audio programs.
Carnegie Science Center, PA Producer/Director/Sound Design - Two-hundred seat, multi-media, immersive theater on the science of sound.
Franklin Institute, PA Producer/Director/Writer - Interactive 36-screen videowall theater on global warming, funded by the National Science Foundation.
Olana State Historic Site, NY Producer/Director/Writer - Orientation film on the life of painter Frederic Church, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Selected Conservation Media Productions
Shelburne Farms, VT Producer/Director/Writer/Photographer - Multi-image production promoting the history and mission of this education and conservation organization.
Society for the Protection of NH Forests, NH Producer/Director/Writer - Multi-image production on land use history in New Hampshire, funded by the New Hampshire Humanities Council.
Center for Rural Massachusetts, MA Producer/Director/Writer - Multi-image production on controlled growth planning.
Massachusetts Audubon Society, MA Producer/Director/Writer - Multi-image production on land use history, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Public Radio Projects
The Earthstone Producer/Director - Musical environmental fable for children and families, funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, broadcast on NPR Playhouse.
ResourceFULL: A Look at Natural Resources in Disguise Producer/Writer/Editor - Series of audio essays on resource use and the manufacturing of everyday items. Funded by NPR’s Satellite Program Development Fund, broadcast on All Things Considered and local stations.
Speaking from the Earth Producer/Writer/Editor - Documentary series of half-hour audio essays featuring nature writers outdoors in the landscapes they’ve written about. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and broadcast on Public Radio stations.
