Recently, we produced a short video for Monticello that will be part of their exhbition at the Museum of American History at the Smithsonian Institution, opening in mid-January. The exhibit is on Thomas Jefferson and slavery, and the video focuses on Monticello's "Getting Word" project--an effort to interview the descendants of THomas Jefferson's slaves.
With the support of a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts, we're returning to work on our documentary about the Erie Canal. This is our collaboration with old friend Steve Zeitlin of City Lore in New York. We've completed the bulk of the live action filming and will begin the editing in January, 2012.