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selected credits and screenings:

NARRATIVE FEATURES

Habibi Rasak Kharban (in progress)

Palestine/Isreal
prod/dir: Susan Youssef
cast: Kais Nashif, Youssef Abu-Warda, Maysa Elhadi

FOURPLAY (in progress)

Dir: Kyle Henry
Prod: Jason Wehling
Exec. Producers: Michael Stipe, Jim McKay

The 2 BOBS (in progress)
Dir: Tim McCanlies
Prod: Anne Walker, Seth Caplan



Room
dir: Kyle Henry
Featuring Cyndi Williams
Exec. Prod. C-Hundred (Michael Stipe and Jim McKay)
Prod: 7th floor

screenings and awards:
2005 Sundance World Premiere
2005 Cannes Film Festival International Premiere
2006 Independent Spirit Award Nomination “John Cassavetes Award”
2006 Independent Spirit Award Nomination “Best Female Lead” for Cyndi Williams
2005 Winner of the Haskell Wexler Award for Cinematography for PJ Raval

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Gretchen
Based off the award winning short “Gretchen and the Night Danger”
Dir: Steve Collins
Featuring Courtney Davis, John Merriman, Becky Ann Baker, and Steven Root as Herb Finkle
Prod: Jay Van Hoy, Lars Knudsen, Anish Savjani

screenings and awards:
2006 Winner, of “Best Narrative Feature” Los Angeles Film Festival
2006 SXSW

The Cassidy Kids
The makers of the Independent Spirit award nominee “Dear Pillow”
Dir: Jake Vaughan
Featuring Kadeem Hardison, Anne Ramsay and Judah Friedlander
Prod:? Megan Gilbride, Bryan Poyser, Seth caplan

screenings:
2006 SXSW
IFC channel 2008

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DOCUMENTARY FEATURES

Trouble the Water
official website
Prod/dir: Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
2009 Academy Award Nominated Best Documentary
2008 Sundance Film Festival Documentary Grand Jury Award Winner
Winner Gotham Award Best Documentary 2008
Winner Full Frame Grand Jury Award
Special Jury Mention SILVERDOCS

Dirt
Official website
Canadian National Film Board
dir: Meghna Haldar
winner of three Leo Awards
BEST DOCUMENTARY Female Eye Film Festival

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selected credits and screenings:

Wake
narrative 2005
dir: Keun-pyo Park
2005 ASC Charles B. Lang Heritage Award Winner – PJ Raval
2004 Eastman Kodak Award Grand Prize Winner – Kuen-pyo Park
2005 Austin Film Festival Best Short winner
Cannes Film Festival 2005
Slamdance Film Festival 2006

Sophie
Hellion Productions
dir: Helen Haeyoung Lee
Student Academy Award Winner, 2002
Best Cinematography, Cinematexas 2002
Cannes Film Festival 2003
Grand Jury Prize – Urbanworld Film Festival
Grand Jury Prize – Nextframe Film Festival
Best Short Film – Bermuda International Film Festival
Best Short Film – Palm Springs International Film festival
Triump Award – Angeles Awards Student Film Festival

Attack of the Bride Monster
Billy Films
Bridemonster.com
dir: Vicky Boone
Winner “McMullin-Sullivan Founders Award for Outstanding Filmmaking” Out
Takes Dallas 2005
“Best of the Best” HGLIFF 9 Houston Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2005

share the wealth
(in progress) Trickster Films
dir: Bennie Klain

chickenfut
chickenfut.com
dir: Harrison Witt
Winner “Best Short Film” Salento Fear Fest 2007

Bunny and Clydo
Brilliant Blue Pictures
dir: Rocky Jo
bunnyandclydo.com
“Audience Award” of the Short Shorts Film Festival Asia
“Best Editing” at the Sacramento Film Festival
“Best Short Feature” at the Hollywood FirstGlance Film Festival

Pillowfight
dir: Scott Rice
Showtime Broadcast, Fall 2001
Slam Dance 2001
Jury Prize, American Short Shorts, Japan, 2000
Grand Jury Prize, Westfest 2001
Indy Award, Indiana Film and Video Festival
Best Narrative Film, Convergence International Arts Festival
Luminaria Award for Best Cinematography, Westfest 2001

Gretchen and the Night Danger
Flatnap Productions
dir: Steve Collins
Best Short – SXSW Film Festival 2004
Cinematexas International 2003 Gecko Award Winner

selected credits and screenings:

Trouble the Water
official website
Dir/Prod: Tia Lessin, Carl Deal
2009 Academy Award Nominated BEST DOCUMENTARY
2008 Sundance Film Festival Documentary Grand Jury Award Winner
HBO Broadcast

TRINIDAD
official website
Dir/Prod: PJ Raval, Jay Hodges
2009 Cleveland International Film Festival Jury Award for BEST DOCUMENTARY
SHOWTIME Broadcast

Dirt
official website
Dir: Meghna Haldar
winner of three Leo Awards
BEST DOCUMENTARY Female Eye Film Festival

Keeping Time: New Music from America’s Roots
Sundance Channel Series, 11th Floor Productions
“Art of Song” episode prod / dir: Gillian Grisman
Bloodshot Records Showcase prod / dir: Alicia Sams
Winner of the Telly Award for BEST MUSIC program

additional camera and shared credits:

The Devil Came on Horseback
prod/dirs: Anne Sundberg, Ricki Stern
Additional Camera for Texas portion.

Critical Condition
prod: Roger Weisberg,
dir: Heather Courtney
Additional Camera for Texas portion.

Slam Planet
Confessions Multimedia Inc.
prod/dir: Kyle Fuller, Mike Henry
Austin segment, Los Angeles Interview with Norman Lear

Troop 1500
Mobilus Media
prod: Karen Bernstein,
dir: Ellen Spiro
POV, PBS 2005
Alberta Segment and various 16mm footage.

Girl Wrestler
official website
dir: Diane Zander
Independent Lens, PBS 2004
SXSW 2003
Dallas tournaments

selected credits:

How Heavy This Axe
Artist: the Sword
Directors: Romy Itzigsohn, PJ Raval

Million Dolla’
Artist: Nook
Director: Mike Henry

Don’t Bury Me I’m Still Not Dead
Artist: The Riverboat Gamblers
Director: Chris Rose, Super!Alright!
Label: Volcom Entertainment
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I Wish
Artist: Candie Payne
Director: Jacqueline Passmore
Label: Deltasonic

A song is not the Song for the World
Artist: The Castanets
Director: Ivonne Loyola
Label: Asthmatic Kitty
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God Bless This Town
Artist: Wade Bowen
Director: Matheson Muir, Revelator Productions
Label: Sustain Records
premiered on CMT’s Top Twenty Countdown
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