Before film, my love was theatre. For a while, after moving to New York, I produced and directed dinner theatres and ran an off-off (and even further off) Broadway company. Sadly, I realized that earning a living in theatre was nigh onto impossible.
So I found work as a still photographer, moving to film sets as an assistant cameraman, then slowly inching toward production. I joined DGA as an assistant director, moved to production managing and finally came full circle, upgrading my membeship to Director.
My latest project was the three-part, federally-funded PBS series, The Writing Code, detailing the history and future of writing. We're now raising funding for Part Four (The Digital Revolution) and Part Five (The Power of the Pen).
Along the way, I began to teach the skills I'd learned. I now offer public classes and private consultations in most aspects of fimmaking - budgeting, scheduling, production software, business plans, film marketing, distribution, fund raising, promotion....
My columns appear regularly in BTL (Below the Line) as well as in Blogs and reviews on ReelGrok.
Title: A: The Writing Code - Roughcut Promo Reel
Client: National Endowment for the Humanities, National Science Foundation. And viewers like you....
Funding Source or Outlet: Federal Foundation or Endowment
Production Cost: Medium budget ($1M - $5M)
Production Type: Documentary
Released On: Video (other than HD)
Shot On: HD
Description: Federally funded, multi-part series explores mankind's single greatest invention - writing. Interviews with over 200 scholars at more than 100 locations from Iran to Egypt, London to LA. Series examines writing's earliest precursors (8000BCE) to the birth of writing, the invention of printing and the world-changing impact of the digital revolution.
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