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