Director of Photography tel: 845-358-8687 cell: 914-325-2825 [email protected] Nyack, New York, 10960 USA
AWARDS 1997 Earthwatch Film Award and Honorable mention by the American Film and Video Association,
1993, for co-directing and shooting on “the Quiet Revolution”.
Voted Best Cinematography in the 1988 FOCUS awards for “Where or When”, which also won Best Film
in this short film festival in Los Angeles. 2003 Cine Golden Eagle for “9/11 Response and Recovery” produced by Signet Productions, Inc. 2003 Emmy nominee “Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans”, produced by
Seth Kramer and Daniel Miller, Great Projects Film Company.
Selected Documentaries 2006 PBS: America at a Crossroads “Security Vs Liberty”: Patriot Act TLC/ YouthAids /Tiger Tigress “Confronting the Pandemic”: Ashley Judd and Salma Hayek
visit Central America to promote AIDS prevention and healthcare.
New Jersey Network “Ethics Roundtable” big multi camera setup National Geographic Channel “Megastructures: New York Bridges” HD Dina Guttman “Transhumanism”: immortality New Jersey Network /Ed Gray “Stem Cell Research” New Jersey Network /Ed Gray “Education” Film for Thought / Suzanne Bauman “DC Artists Project” PBS /Great Projects/ Ironbound “America Rebuilds: Pt 2" Ground Zero NYC National Geographic Channel “Everyday Things” HDCAM F900 camera Indy / Turnstone Productions “Haverstraw, NY” changes in Hudson village
Before 2006 EquinoxFilms for PBS “The Writing Code” shoots in Iran and Egypt. Anatomical Travelogue Inc “John Perry Barlow’s Health Challenge”
Grateful Dead songwriter gets a full body health makeover. Anatomical Travelogue Inc “Heart” and “Blood” medical documentaries Transition Productions “The Descent” feature HD Doc- Additional camera Discovery / Anatomical Trav “Anatomy of Sex” Immy Humes / Doc Tank
“Planting Trees” 26 foot Jib to film tree planting on an estate. Sony Music Alessandro Safina with Phil Ramone. Discovery Times / Ed Gray “Someone’s Watching” surveillance Discovery/Leibovitz Hellman Prods “Highwire” Chinese slackwire artist Alliance for Justice Susan Sarandon opening sequence PBS / Great Projects “America Rebuilds: A Year at Ground Zero”, including
introduction by Kevin Spacey PBS / Great Projects “Resistance: Untold Stories of Jewish Partisans” Idealist Films/Lisa Hepner “Peace by Peace: Women on the Frontlines” NY shoots only Signal Hill Entertainment “West Point: 200 Years of Honor and Tradition” Food Network / Tiger Aspect “Mario’s Restaurant Rookies”: Mario Batali PBS / Great Projects “Media Matters” 2002, 2003 Stone Lantern Films, PBS “School” 16mm film. History of public education Videotours Productions “Jack Hanna’s Animal Adventures” wildlife 1992-1996 Bruce Norfleet “POW’s”: “B” camera on 24P HD documentary. National Geo Special, Jamie Hellman “Inside the FBI” 2002. National Geographic: “Wade Davis”: Immy Humes, Director, 2001. PBS “NOW with Bill Moyers”: Classic Albums- Isis Films (UK) “Lou Reed: Transformer” PBS American Experience “Letters From War”: Robbie Kenner, Producer/Director 16mm PBS, Great Projects Films “Great Projects: The Building of America”, 16mm. Turnstone Productions/StoneLantern “Megamall” I am co producer with Vera Aronow, Sarah Mondale PBS / Great Projects “Crucible of Empire”: Cuba and Philippines. 16mm. PBS, Ben Shapiro Ruben Blades: Opening for “Buena Vista Social Club” Bill Moyers/PBS “Trade Secrets: Chemical Industry” B camera on 2 cam int. Nature / PBS “Orangutans” shot in the National Zoo in DC American Mus of Nat History
Geology videos for permanent exhibitionsBetaSP and HDCam
ABC News: Millennium series “The Century” many interviews and B roll for man episodes PBS / Ben Shapiro “Latest Word” hosted by Ray Suarez Turner Original Programming “Wild City” Isabella Rosellini, Central Park Animals Discovery Channel “Deep Sea, Deep Secrets”: submarine Alvin PBS / Suzanne Bauman “Jackie: Behind the Myth” Jackie Onassis Turner Original Programming “The Hidden Zoo” National Zoo Vets MTV / Lucky Duck Productions “No Money, Mo’ Problems” producer- Lisa Jackson Dan Jenkins/ Atlas Media “Tea Dance” ballroom dancing PBS / Tatge Lasseur Productions “The Tenth Van Cliburn Int’l Piano Competition”: B camera Discovery / Great Projects “He Conquered Space: Wernher Von Braun” HBO / Simon and Goodman Prods “Heart” B camera, heart transplant for child National Geographic "Explorer" “Secret Subs”; the Making of “Hawaii” NGS Special “Jungle Spaceport”; “Way of the Wodaabe”, “Civil War Games”, worked on many other episodes “The Quiet Revolution” Bangladesh, Honduras, India 16mm, co director, award winner Monticello / FM Productions “Jefferson the Statesman”: Visitors Center film; 16mm PBS / Great Performances “Songs of Six Families”: BB King, Linda Ronstadt, 16mm “You're the Top: The Cole Porter Story”: 1990, 16mm. Paul Winter "Song for the World": music video filmed in Russia; 16mm
Marketing and Advertising Johnny Depp, Director “Banter” 35mm Panavision anti drug short film 1994 Ironbound Films “Acumen Fund” B&W 16mmfilm 2006 Deloitte and Touche
two commercials for consulting firm, Scott Morris Prods 2006. Turnstone Productions “GDC Home Guide” DVD for homeowners Co-Director/DP Five Browns
music video for sibling pianists B-camera
Astra Zeneca / CCG Metamedia Seroquel: 2 commercials 24P SDX 900. 2006 Pfizer / CCG Metamedia Xalatan: 3 commercials for Glaucoma drug. 2006 Pfizer / CCG Metamedia Exubera: commercial for inhaled insulin. 30P SDX900. 2006 CCG Metamedia Geodon: doctor informational video 2006 Conde Nast / Virtual Beauty 24P HD directed by Jane Nisselson; 2002.
insurance company videos 1990 to 2006. Celine Dion and Anne Geddes
2 camera shoot to promote new CD and book. 2005
Verdasys / Scott Morris
commercial for corporate security software 2005-06
Astra Zeneca / CCG Metamedia
videos for presentation at a sales and marketing conference 2005
Pfizer / CCG Metamedia
numerous videos for marketing, training, and promotion
Pfizer / CCG Metamedia Xalatan- commercial and marketing videos - glaucoma drug Red Hawk Productions / Merck
ethics training video for pharmaceutical company 2005. Cohn Creative Group World Security Challenge: amusing dramatizations 2006 Smith Barney
Many Promotional and informational videos 1995-2007
Mastercard:
Marketing and informational videos for Mastercard 2000- 2006. Smith Barney “More than Good Fortune” philanthropy video 2006 Smith Barney Financial Consultants commercial, B&W 2005 Smith Barney Financial Consultants short drama about ethics 2000
TV Commercials Director of Photography: Wine Spectator 2006 Dan Sladkus, Dir Museum of Natural History 2000 Geralyn Abinader, dir Buick: 1990, 35mm Lear Levin, Dir Hershey Park 1993, 1994 16mm Allan Albert, Dir True Gold 2003, 16mm Steve Gruskin, Dir Avacor 2001-04, 16mm Steve Gruskin dir Oxegen 2005 HD Steve Gruskin dir Centerpiece Gourmet 2005 Steve Gruskin dir Massachusetts Governor’s race; Mandy Grunwald, director 16mm. Camera operator: Lear Levin, Director Cameraman: GM, Chrysler, US Army, Champion Paper, others 35mm Miller Beer: Michael Werk,dir 35mm Dristan: Kevin Jones, Dir 35mm CBS Sports: Brian Williams, Director, super16 film
Selected Companies I have worked with: Director of Photography tel: 845-358-8687 cell: 914-325-2825 [email protected] Nyack, New York, 10960 USA “My Mother’s Early Lovers”- DP Nora Jacobson, Director Super 16 “The Descent” Transition Productions feature HD Doc- Addl camera “NY Cop”- camera operator “Rock and Roll Vampire” “Elsa’s Plums” “Where or When”
won grand prize in the FOCUS Awards competition, 1988, voted best cinematography by judges panel
consisting of Allen Daviau, James Glennon and John Bailey
“The Perverts” “Spree” “The Bank Job”
starring Eszter Balint from “Stranger Than Paradise”
“ICE”
Kahane Corn -currently John Stewart's producer
Celebrities and Notable people interviewedCeline Dion Michael Douglas
Investigation Report No. 2156 Licensee Type of Service Name of Broadcast Date of Broadcast Relevant Code Clauses 1.3(c)(ii) and 5.6 of the Commercial Radio Australia Codes of Practice and Guidelines 2004 Date Finalised Decision No breach of clause 1.3(c)(ii) or 5.6 of the Commercial Radio Australia Codes of Practice and Guidelines 2004. ACMA Investigation Rep
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