Netflix Original Documentary Series
Showrunner / Co-Executive Producer
Inspired by the acclaimed Korean documentary My Love, Don't Cross That River, the poignant series MY LOVE documents a year in the lives of six elderly couples from around the world. Globe-trotting through Brazil, India, Japan, Korea, the U.S., and Spain, the six-part docuseries gets to the heart of long-lasting love.
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IndieWire “A Beautiful, Tender Look at Lives Spent at Each Other’s Side”
The Guardian “Treasure the small moments”
Daily Beast “Netflix’s New Docuseries ‘My Love’ Will Make You Cry Like a Baby”
Music Videos
Director/Producer
Three music videos created for Neko Case and Anti/Epitaph Records.
"Hell-On"
"Bad Luck"
and "Curse of the I-5 Corridor"
VARIETY: Neko Case Drops New Song, 'Bad Luck'
PASTE: Listen to Neko Case's Dance-Worthy New Single 'Bad Luck'
UNDER THE RADAR:
Neko Case Shares New Song 'Bad Luck'
Neko Case Announces New Album and Tour
Full credits on YouTube
Anthology Fiction Series (HBO)
Executive Producer
Tap your inner voyeur and prepare to see something totally unexpected in this electrifying HBO anthology series (created by Jay and Mark Duplass) that peeks inside a room at an average American corporate motel, exploring the stories of the characters who pass through it on any given night.
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Fiction Feature (2016)
Producer
Former high school sweethearts reconnect after 20 years when they unexpectedly run into each other in their hometown. They spend the day together, sharing stories and rediscovering old feelings, as well as a big secret from their past.
Director: Alex Lehmann
Writer: Mark Duplass
Starring: Sarah Paulson & Mark Duplass, with Clu Gulager
Producers: Mel Eslyn & Xan Aranda
Distributor: The Orchard
Available via Netflix, iTunes, Amazon, and other VOD platforms.
Documentary Series (2015)
Producer, Co-Executive Producer (Emmy-nominated)
"The five slices of real trans life portrayed in the miniseries will have you crying or laughing. Or both."
--Advocate.com
"Unfortunately, for those just now becoming acquainted with the trans community and the various challenges it currently faces, finding accurate information can seem like a daunting task. --Out Magazine
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Zackary Drucker in "This Is Me... And My Sisters"
Maya Jafer in "This Is Me: Closets"
Documentary Feature (2011)
Director & Producer
“A cunning hybrid of
documentary and concert film…”
--The Film Society of Lincoln Center
"...It's a music documentary that's entertaining, lyrical and oddly revealing... definitely worth seeing." --indieWIRE
A true product of the Midwest work ethic (with crew from three states), Andrew Bird: Fever Year premiered at the prestigious New York Film Festival in 2011 and screened with more than 90 festivals, taking home nine awards.
Filmed during culminating months of the acclaimed singer-songwriter’s most rigorous year of touring, Andrew Bird crosses the December finish line in his hometown of Chicago – feverish and on crutches from an onstage injury. Is he suffering hazards from chasing the ghost of inspiration? Or merely transforming into a different kind of animal “perfectly adapted to the music hall?” Fever Year is the first to capture Bird’s precarious multi-instrumental looping technique and features live performances at Milwaukee’s Pabst Theater with collaborators Martin Dosh, Jeremy Ylvisaker, Michael Lewis and Annie Clark of St. Vincent. 80 minutes, Dolby Surround
Post-Screening Q&A, Independent Film Festival Boston
Post-Screening Q&A, Vancouver International Film Festival
Poster and title design by Sonnenzimmer of Chicago
Album Trailer 2013
Writer, Director & Producer
“the trailer for the new Neko Case album is pretty much just like that wondrous jeans commercial disguised as an art film, except it actually has heart and soul and you don’t have to be embarrassed if you start crying at how glorious, just glorious, life is.”
—Tiny Mix Tapes
Grammy-nominee Neko Case sent me a dozen fresh songs, said to pick one to use as enticement for her long-awaited new album. Our trailer was released online June 7, 2013, viewed over 50,000 times during the first 24 hours, and aggregated by Billboard, Spin, Pitchfork, CMJ and numerous others.
Thrilling for my team after pulling long days in Vermont, buying two-for-one fireworks on sale, bringing crew and gear in from New York City, and hoping for good weather. Happy times.
Neko Case is with Anti- Records
Images: Benjamin Kasulke
Documentary Feature (2014)
Co-Producer
After sending her last kid to college, and retiring from a thirty-year career in advertising, May May Tchao began taking documentary film classes. She soon hired me to co-produce her film Spilled Water. Strangers at first, we joked that I was her midwife, assisting with the birth of her first film at the age of sixty.
Spilled Water had its world premiere at the Gene Siskel Film Center. During broadcast in Chicago, the film was viewed by more than 26,000 people. Pretty great for a first-timer.
Spilled Water explores how the economic transformation of China is changing the roles, rights, and social status of its women. Wanting to connect with her "distant sisters", decades after emigrating to the United States, May May returns to China and explores the very different lives of four women. From the urban hustle of Beijing to the desolate beauty of rural provinces, their intimate stories show us why gender equality in China is so hard-earned... and worth the struggle.
Documentary Feature (2008)
Co-Producer
This award-winning documentary film directed by David E. Simpson screened on five continents, aired on PBS with Independent Lens, and received four stars from the Chicago Tribune.
Milking the Rhino examines the deepening conflict between humans and animals in an ever-shrinking world. It is the first major documentary to explore wildlife conservation from the perspective of people who live with wild animals. Shot in some of the world’s most magnificent locales, MTR offers complex, intimate portraits of rural Africans at the forefront of community-based conservation: a revolution that is turning poachers into preservationists and local people into the stewards of their land.
Documentary Feature (2011)
Outreach Director
Prisoner of Her Past is a documentary by Kartemquin Films founder Gordon Quinn and Chicago Tribune journalist Howard Reich. It took five years to make, then they put the film in my hands. I handled the broadcast, international screenings and festival run, press, and community engagement campaign.
Prisoner of Her Past tells the haunting story of a secret childhood trauma resurfacing, sixty years later, to unravel the life of Sonia Reich. The film follows her son as he journeys across the United States and Eastern Europe to uncover why his mother believes the world is conspiring to kill her. Along the way, he finds a family he never knew he had.
This film is the first to expose a little-known illness: late-onset Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. Prisoner of Her Past examines the disorder's devastating effect on families. But it also shows programs that are aiding young trauma survivors of Hurrican Katrina-- and how such early interventions may have helped Holocaust survivors.
