documentary film
Field Producer
Pioneers Turned Millionaires, 5x52 min, NDR/arte, 2008–09.
Biographies of five German immigrants who built their business empires in America: Levi Strauss, Henry Steinway, John Jacob Astor, William Boeing, and Henry Heinz.
http://www.immigrants-to-icons.com
Field Producer
100 Years Of Hollywood: The Carl Laemmle Story, 78 min, SWR/arte, 2008.
Looking back at a century of Hollywood history via the life story of Carl Laemmle, a German immigrant who founded Universal Pictures and brought Dracula, Frankenstein, and the Phantom of the Opera to millions.
http://www.gebrueder-beetz.de/productions/100-years-of-hollywood-2?lang=en#uebersicht
Archival Researcher
Earth Days, 102 min, PBS American Experience, 2008.
Birth of the modern environmental movement in America, described by nine activists whose ideas helped galvanize 20 million people across the country to celebrate the first Earth Day in 1970.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/earthdays/
Researcher
How To Live Forever, 90 min, independent, 2007–08.
A meditation on growing older by Mark Wexler, who weighs the advantages of calorie restriction, cryonics, brain workouts, elder porn, and longevity hot spots in Okinawa, Iceland, and Loma Linda.
Archival Researcher
Good Ol’ Charles Schulz, 90 min, PBS American Masters, 2006–07.
First-ever biography of the shy, melancholic cartoonist who created Peanuts by drawing from his own experiences to color in the lives of Charlie Brown, Linus, Lucy, and Snoopy.
Producer • Segment Director
The Meaning Of Food, 3x56 min, PBS/OPB, 2003–04.
Series of short vérité and scripted films about the relationship between food and culture in America. Stories include: kolache bake show, African lunchtruck, booya cook-off, last meals on death row, Terezin cookbook, airport customs, Italian wedding, and Chicago diner.
http://www.pbs.org/opb/meaningoffood/
http://crossfilms.com/portfolio/documentaries/ Click on Airport Customs and Chicago Diner.
Producer • Director • Camera
Hunting The Zodiac, 63 min, independent, 2001–07.
Inside the subculture of amateur detectives who are obsessed with solving the notorious Zodiac Killer case from the late 1960s. German television broadcast in 2003. Premiered at 4-Star Theatre in San Francisco in 2007. Web distribution in 2010.
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7671284
http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/apr/15/usa.world
http://asap.ap.org/stories/1262676.s
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/03/04/BAGPHOF7B41.DTL
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/847862/see_zodiac/
Archival Licensing Manager
Emerging Technologies, Ninth House Network, 2001.
E-learning program that focuses on innovative business applications for high-bandwidth technology.
Researcher
Family Problem, 3x15 sec, Partnership for a Drug Free America, 2001.
Three national PSAs in which teenage addicts and their families talk about the struggle to recover.
Writer • Associate Producer
Robberies Of The Century, 60 min, Discovery Channel, 2000–01.
Real cops and robbers tell the inside stories of four of the world’s biggest heists: Great Train Robbery (£2.6m), Security Express (£6m), Loomis Fargo ($18m), and Gardner Museum ($300m).
http://www.mhptv.com/robberies.html
http://natgeotv.com.au/tv/robberies-of-the-century/
Researcher
Instant Millionaires, 60 min, Discovery Channel, 2000.
Profiles of ordinary people around the world who became rich overnight, with positive and negative consequences.
http://www.mhptv.com/instantmill.html
Archival Research Coordinator
The Rise And Fall Of Jim Crow, 60 min, PBS/WNET, 2000.
Final episode of a 4-part series on American segregation laws, “Terror and Triumph” focuses on black activists who pushed for legal rights after World War II. Winner of Peabody Award.
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/jimcrow/
Archival Licensing Manager
The Next Big Thing, 60 min, PBS/KQED, 2000.
Overview of major technological innovations, then a detailed analysis of the potential benefits of using hydrogen fuel cells in cars and buildings to reduce dependence on oil, coal, and nuclear energy.
http://www.kqed.org/w/collaborations/nextbigthing/index.html
Production Manager
What’s Up In The Universe, 60 min, PBS, 1999–2000.
A gallery of artistic ways to understand and map the universe, using tools such as ballet, oil paints, and Hawaiian navigation to express key concepts of astronomy. Funded by National Science Foundation.
http://www.whatsupintheuniverse.org/
Associate Producer
Life Beyond Earth, 2x56 min, PBS/KCTS, 1997–98.
Science-based search for extraterrestrial life, showing how extremophile organisms, extrasolar planets, habitable zones, and the Drake Equation all point to the existence of life throughout our galaxy.
http://www.pbs.org/lifebeyondearth/
Archival Researcher
A Week Without Violence, 15 min, National YWCA, 1996.
Promotional video celebrating the YWCA's first annual Week Without Violence, a nationwide grass-roots campaign to eliminate all forms of violence in American communities.
http://www.ywcaendtoviolence.org/
Production Assistant
On The Road, 30 min, General Magic, 1995.
Corporate-identity video for General Magic, an innovator in technologies that helped pave the information superhighway and lead to handheld devices such as the iPhone.
http://www.wired.com/techbiz/media/magazine/16-12/st_15magic
Researcher
Jack: The Last Kennedy Film, 90 min, CBS Entertainment, 1992–93.
An all-archival review of the life and career of President John F. Kennedy, narrated by people who knew him best—family members, friends, colleagues, and lovers. Winner of two Emmy Awards.
http://www.movids.net/watch-action-movies/jack-the-last-kennedy-film-1993-online/