2016

Boom & Bust - America's Journey on the Erie Canal, co-produced with Steve Zeitlin of CityLore and the Erie Canal Museum, is finished!  Boom & Bust premiered at the Library of Congress in August, 2015, screened at the Virginia Film Festival in November, 2015, and screened at the Syracuse International Film Festival in May, 2016. The film will be broadcast on public television stations across the country for Labor Day, 2016, presented by our friends at Kentucky Educational Television. 

We're pleased to announce that Good Work - Masters of the Building Arts, co-produced with longtime friend and colleague Marjorie Hunt, premiered in a private screening at the Smithsonian Institution and our first public screening at the Virginia Film Festival in October. The film will be presented by WGBH to PBS stations in 2017.

We are continuing work on several other great projects, including a feature documentary about corporate purpose being produced with Bobby Parmar at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and a series of videos about Thriving Cities with Josh Yates at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia, also at UVA.

We are making great progress on Black in Blue, a film about the four African American football players at my alma mater, the University of Kentucky, who broke the color line in the Southeastern Conference. For information see blackinblue.org

Our newest project is a collaboration with musician, folklorist, and author Stephen Wade. Based on his book, The Beautiful Music All Around Us, we will be producing a documentary about ballad singer Texas Gladden and her brother, banjo player Hobart Smith. For information see beautifulmusicfilmtrilogy.org

2014

Thanks to two major grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, we are moving forward to complete two films co-produced with old friends Marjorie Hunt at the Smithsonian Institution and Steve Zeitlin of City Lore in New York. The films are Good Work - Masters of the Building Arts and Hard Times - Boom & Bust on the Banks of the Erie Canal. We hope to have the films completed by early 2015.

And we have begun work on some exciting new projects this year, including a series of videos about Thriving Cities with Josh Yates at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia and a feature documentary about corporate purpose being produced with Bobby Parmar at the Darden School of Business, also at UVA.

Finally, we are in the very early stages of a film about the four African American football players at my alma mater, the University of Kentucky, who broke the color line in the Southeastern Conference. So we're very busy and very excited to have a host of terrific projects underway.

FALL 2013

We're very pleased that FAITH IN THE HOOD is now available through Filmakers Library/Alexander Street Press. For more information please visit: https://www.academicvideostore.com/subjects/african-american-studies?page=3.

Spring, 2013

Our one-hour documentary Faith in the Hood was broadcast nationally on public television via NETA for Black History Month. The film was presented to the system by Kentucky Educational Television and Program Director Craig Cornwell. The film earlier won the "Making a Difference Award" from the COMMFEST Community Film Festival.

Winter, 2012-13

We want to let our friends in New York know that our Academy Award-winning short documentary, The Stone Carvers, will be featured in a special program at the Museum of Modern Art, co-sponsored by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on Sunday, February 3 at 2:30pm. The screening is part of the annual Academy program at MoMA. Co-producer Marjorie Hunt and I will be be there, along with family and friends.