Films
My documentaries focus on social issue stories and have generated critical acclaim and applause at film festivals.
feature documentary
How To Power A City
Explore the front lines of the clean energy revolution as citizens, fed up with government bureaucracies and intransigent fossil fuel providers, take power themselves. Who will prevail - those fighting for clean energy? Or those with a death grip on our fossil fuel past?
Now screening around the world! The film premiered in Jan. 2024, with many sneak previews for very special groups. Watch for it on PBS in 2025!
Half-hour documentary for broadcastThe Poetry Deal: a film with Diane di Prima
She remains the most famous woman poet of the Beat Generation; her friend Allen Ginsberg called her “heroic in life and poetics.” THE POETRY DEAL: a film with Diane di Prima is an impressionistic documentary about legendary poet Diane di Prima.
Currently airing on national public television.
Short filmSolar Libre: Family Affair
Two stories in Puerto Rico follow energy transformation that began in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria and continues on to some of the world’s most ambitious clean energy goals. In Salinas, a lawyer brings affordable community solar to her hometown. In Isabela, a family installs hundreds of rooftop solar systems, then launches a solar training program focused on recruiting women.
Screened at festivals in 2018-2019, Best short documentary award, Rincon International Film Festival.
Short filmHow To Power A City: Astoria
When residents of Astoria, Queens shut down a coal-burning power plant that has been polluting their air for decades, their City Councilmember continues this community-wide fight all the way through to passing a bill to get rid of fossil fuel power plants completely and to turn Riker’s Island into a solar farm when the prison closes.
Screened at festivals in 2018-2019.
Short filmHow To Power A City: Highland Park
When the utility repossesses over 1,000 streetlights in Highland Park, MI, residents create solar-power streetlights, energy democracy trainings, and a local movement that ultimately influences state energy policy.
Screened at festivals in 2018-2019.
Feature documentarySir: Just a Normal Guy
Called “one of the most provocative films [of Trannyfest] is this diaristic look at FTM transition…” SIR: JUST A NORMAL GUY screened to acclaim at LGBT film festivals and events internationally. A candid, courageous, and insightful portrait of more than 15-months in the female-to-male (FTM) transition of Jay Snider, SIR explores both the emotional and physical changes of this profound experience — beginning prior to hormones and concluding after top surgery.
Screened at 30+ festivals, broadcast, and in national distribution.