Since moving to the East Coast, I’ve concentrated mainly on independent features and documentaries. Recent work includes A Surprise In Texas, a dramatic movie that depicts the grueling challenges of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition. The film features a young blind Japanese boy named Nobu who has become quite the rock star in Japan. It has been playing theatrical dates around the country and on PBS.
I have been working on a feature as Producer/Editor for over a year and a half now called The Last Film Festival. We have a couple of post houses who have agreed to finishing and effects work and we will be putting the final touches on our spoof on the film business. Good cast, headed by Dennis Hopper, lots of fun. We have an agent on board and are currently submitting to festivals, confident of a sale in the near future. You could see it soon at a theater near you.
I edited a 90 minute doc, Garrison Keillor: The Man on the Radio in the Red Shoes, for American Masters on PBS. It was also well received at screenings and festivals around the country. I also finished up a short narrative, Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn. A lovely comment on aging and loss in our lives. It is playing and winning awards all over-at Cannes, in New York, LA, Moscow, DC, Las Vegas among others.
Other projects include Married in America 2, director Michael Apted’s intimate look at nine American couples. I edited The Simian Line, a feature film with Harry Connick Jr., Tyne Daly, William Hurt and Lynn Redgrave. I co-edited, with director Heather MacDonald, Been Rich All My Life, which was theatricaly released around the country. Another collaboration with Ms. MacDonald was Ballot Measure 9, which, before its theatrical release was feted with an Audience Award at Sundance and a Teddy at Berlin. It still airs frequently on broadcast and cable. PBS projects include: Vis-Ã -Vis: Native Tongues and Lives Together, Worlds Apart. I edited Dialogue with the Dalai Lama for Link TV and a feature piece for National Geographic called Wade Davis, A Charmed Life. A recent endeavor culminated in a six hour DVD collection of master acting classes in the Michael Chekhov technique. While living in the Seattle area for two years, I worked with the producers of Bill Nye The Science Guy on that series and on a series for National Geographic called Amazing Planet. I also did a lot of commercial work including projects for Microsoft and Boeing. For six years I was a lead editor for PBS station KTCA in Minneapolis/St. Paul. While there, producer Robert Byrd and I created the Diary series: Black Minnesotans, Asian Minnesotans and Native American Minnesotans. Among many projects edited for PBS were The Dakota Conflict; Not Quite American: Bill Holm; Understanding Hate; How to Talk Minnesotan; Music in the Americas; St. Paul Past and Get Over It. I was also lead editor on a number of weekly national series including Newton’s Apple and Alive TV.
