Filmography
AS DIRECTOR / D.P.
- SARAH PALIN: YOU BETCHA
- Feature doc co-directed with Nick Broomfield for Channel 4 (UK)
- Nominations: Crystal Arrow at Les Arcs European Film Festival
- AILEEN: LIFE AND DEATH OF A SERIAL KILLER
- Feature doc co-directed with Nick Broomfield for HBO/Channel 4
- Awards: Tribeca Film Festival, Amnesty International DOEN Award
- Nominations: IDA Award, European Film Award
- ASYLUM
- Doc about the criminally insane. Emmy nomination for HBO American Undercover
- JUVENILE LIAISON 2
- Feature doc co-directed with Nick Broomfield for Channel 4 (U.K.)
- Revisited subjects of 1975 film on a controversial crime deterrent program in the north of England.
- ONE GENERATION MORE
- Feature doc directed and shot for BBC
- About an Estonian Jewish family rediscovering their roots after 50 years of Soviet oppression
- LILY TOMLIN
- Feature doc co-directed and produced with Nick Broomfield for PBS/Channel 4
- Focuses on the evolution of comedienne’s Broadway hit, ‘Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.’ Shown widely theatrically throughout the U.S. & at numerous festivals.
- SOLDIER GIRLS
- Feature doc co-directed and produced with Nick Broomfield for PBS/Channel 4
- Focuses on women going through basic training.
- Awards: BAFTA for Best Feature Length Documentary, Prix Italia, First Prize Sundance F.F., Blue Ribbon American F.F.
- TATTOOED TEARS
- Feature doc co-directed and produced with Nick Broomfield for PBS/Channel 4
- About California Youth Authority maximum security prison
- Awards: Dupont Columbia Award for Outstanding Journalism, California State Bar for Distinguished Reporting
- JUVENILE LIAISON
- Documentary co-directed and produced with Nick Broomfield for BFI
- Focuses on police in U.K. dealing with juvenile offenders, banned in the U.K.
- JIMI PLAYS BERKELEY
- Feature film shot, directed and co-produced, now a cult-classic about Jimi Hendrix
- SYLVIA, FRAN & JOY
- Film about women’s roles shot and directed for PBS
SELECTED CINEMATOGRAPHY CREDITS
- AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS
- Co-producer & D.P., director Ken Rosenberg for PBS Independent Lens
- THIS IS EVERYTHING: GIGI GORGEOUS
- Feature doc directed by Barbara Kopple for YouTubeRed
- TO BEGIN THE WORLD OVER AGAIN: THE LIFE OF THOMAS PAINE
- TV movie, D.P. with Haskell Wexler
- LAST DAYS IN VIETNAM
- Doc directed by Rory Kennedy for PBS American Experience
- CITIZEN KOCH
- Feature doc directed by Tia Lessin & Carl Deal
- INVENTING DAVID GEFFEN
- Directed by Susan Lacy for PBS American Masters
- ROLF HARRIS PAINTS HIS DREAM
- TV doc directed by Vikram Jayanti for BBC4 Arena
- SNOWBLIND
- Feature doc on Rachael Scdoris, 22 year old blind Iditarod racer for Discovery
- COMIC BOOK CONFIDENTIAL
- feature doc directed by Ron Mann
- DIXIE CHICKS: SHUT UP & SING
- Feature doc directed by Barbara Kopple
- LETTING GO OF GOD
- Feature doc directed by Julia Sweeney
- HIS BIG WHITE SELF
- Feature doc directed by Nick Broomfield – a look at what has become of the Boers
- RAIN IN A DRY LAND
- Feature doc directed by Anne Makepeace, following 2 Somali Bantu families’ U.S. resettlement
- RATED R: REPUBLICANS IN HOLLYWOOD
- TV doc, directed by Jesse Moss about Arnold Swartznegger on campaign trail, for A&E
- BIGGIE & TUPAC
- Feature doc directed by Nick Broomfield
- DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN
- Feature doc directed by Pennebaker/Hegedus
- DOMELESS IN SEATTLE
- TV doc on Kingdome implosion, directed by Mike Rossiter for TLC/BBC
- KURT & COURTNEY
- Feature doc directed by Nick Broomfield
- PUNISHMENT PARK
- Feature film directed by Peter Watkins
- GIMME SHELTER
- Feature doc by Maysles Brothers about Rolling Stones’ concert in Altamont
- PUMPING IRON (I & II)
- Feature docs about body building in which the world meets Arnold Schwarznegger
- AN AMERICAN FAMILY
- 12-part seminal vérité series on the Loud family in Santa Barbara for PBS