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Sweet Crude

Color / Video / Documentary / In Production

Due Fall 2006

Producer, Director

Sweet Crude, a documentary currently in production, is the story of the people of the Niger Delta, an oil-rich region in Nigeria. These people are living on a razors edge at this moment with the hope for solutions and the forces of destruction progressing at an almost equal pace..

And Justice For All

Color / Video / Documentary Short

DVD available at hatefreezone.org
2003

Producer, Director

On September 11th all Americans were victims of terrorism. But some Americans, mostly non-white, were victims twice: once by the attacks by foreign terrorists and once again by an ugly brand of American racism.

What kind of nation might we become once we’ve lost our fundamental liberties and legal protections? And Justice For All explores some of the questions we all need to revisit.

Crocodile Tears

Color / 16mm / Feature Narrative

DVD available
1997

Producer, Assistant Director

In 1993 an HIV Positive diagnosis was a death sentence. When Simon Desoto gets his results, he considers selling his soul to the devil to be negative in the black comedy Faust remake.

Friends Like That

Color / Mixed Video & 16mm / Educational Media

2005
Director

This film short was made as a companion piece for the “Here’s Looking at You” drug and alcohol prevention program for Discovery Learning (formerly CHEF).

Mirror Mirror

Color / Mixed Video & 16mm / Documentary

2000

Producer/ Director

This video was produced as a part of the “Get Real About Violence” curriculum for C.H.E.F. It looks at the mentor/apprentice film program that Sandy Directed at the Langston Hughes Cultural Arts Center from 1996-1999. Clips from the films “Terminal 187” and Just Us are contained in this video.

Peace

Color / Video / Music Video

2005

Director, Camera, Editor

Performance Music Video for the Australian band Fruit playing at the Triple Door in Seattle.

SLGFF

Color / 35mm / Trailer

2005

Director

Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival Trailer

Valley Medical Center

Color / Video / Corporate Video

2001
Producer, Director

ER Instructional video for friends and family to view while waiting.

Will

Color / VIdeo / Educational Media

2005
Director

This film short was made as a companion piece for the “Here’s Looking at You” drug and alcohol prevention program for Discovery Learning (formerly CHEF).

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