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UNTITLED GAY RETIREE Documentary receives several grants and awards:
ITVS Diversity and Development Fund Recipient, Cinereach Media Grant Recipient, LEF Foundation Moving Image Fund, Texas Filmmaker Production Fund Recipient, Austin City Cultural Contracts Grant Recipient

RECENTLY COMPLETED PROJECTS:

Little Stolen Moments
Wild Beats
“All the Kings Men”

Mistress Stephanie & Her Melodic Cat
“Awfully Confusing”

Three dollar Cinema

RECENT SHOOTS:

Habibi Rasak Kharban – Palestine/Israel
prod/dir: Susan Youssef
cast: Kais Nashif, Youssef Abu-Warda, Maysa Elhadi

Fourplay – USA
dir: Kyle Henry
prod: Jason Wehling
exec prod: Michael Stipe, Jim Mckay

UPCOMING SCREENINGS:

TRINIDAD screens on SHOWTIME

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TRINIDAD wins the Cleveland International Film Festival Documentary Jury Award

TRINIDAD named Best Documentary by art publication …might be good

Trouble the Water nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary

Trouble the Water wins Gotham Award for Best Documentary

Trouble the Water in theaters nation wide

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Visit the website Trouble the Water

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Feature Films

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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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Short Film

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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

Documentary

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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

Music Video

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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
Watch the video

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
watch the video

God Bless This Town
Artist: Wade Bowen
Director: Matheson Muir, Revelator Productions
Label: Sustain Records
premiered on CMT’s Top Twenty Countdown
Watch the video

Digital Animation

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selected credits and screenings:

What if Oprah
5min. found images (work in progress)
experimental, 2007
A meditation and celebration to the media icon Oprah.

work in progress screening:
20×2 “What if?”

net06
5min. dv and film animation 2002
Distributor: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

A non-camera made analog digital collision.

festivals and awards:
Cinematexas Int’l Film Festival
-Winner of the Betty Nowlin Award for Excellence in Filmmaking
Black Maria Film Festival- Honorable Mention
“10 under 10″ Austin film Society Texas Documentary tour
CinemaAsian International Film festival
DC Underground Film festival

A boy’s mouth
5min. text narrative, 2002
Distributor: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

The power of one boy’s speech.

festivals and awards:
Santa Cruz Film Festival
- Winner of Director’s Award for “Most Visually Inspired”
Intersection for the Arts “History, Memory, and Matter – Perception Changes Everything”
Cinematexas International Film festival
VC Los Angeles Asian American Film Festival

clean
4min. digital live action animation 2002
Distributor: Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre

A brief look at one man’s obsession with cleanliness

screenings:
1st Annual Artists’ Television Access Film and Video festival
Cinematexas International Film festival
Rooftops film festival
Slant, Aurora Picture Show

Music Video

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Little Stolen Moments presents
Wild Beasts
“All the King’s Men”

Awfully Confusing (2009)
artist: Mistress Stephanie and her Melodic Cat
From the Album Take That!

Grey (2009)
artist: Mistress Stephanie and her Melodic Cat
From the Album Take That!

How Heavy This Axe (2008)
Super!Alright! Productions
Co-director: Romy Itzigsohn
artist: The Sword
From the Album Gods of the Earth

you got the gin – (2005)
artist: Adam Sultan
From the Album heinous acts of love

Short Narratives

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selected credits and screenings:

lead role: Father
15 min. 2004
Distributed by the canadian filmmaker distribution centre

When film director and writer Joseph Chu puts out an open casting call for a new film based on his family, he never expects his own father to audition for the lead role of the father. Caught somewhere between his real memories of his father and the fictional character he’s created, Joseph is forced to confront his own fears, hypocrisies, and realizations.

Panavision / Kodak Student Outreach Program Award Winner
Krakow International Film Festival
Austin Film Festival
San Francisco International Asian American Film Festival
VC Filmfest 2007, Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival – Programmer’s Pick,
Golden Reel Nomination
Cinematexas 9 International Short Film and Video Festival
winner Best Cinematography
outfest – Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Slant 7, Aurora Picture Show
Barcelona Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Seattle Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Dallas Outakes – Dallas Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
Toronto Reel Asian Film Festival
Austin Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Tucson Lesbian and Gay film Festival
Kingston Ontario Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Bloomington, Indian Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Kyoto Lesbian and Gay Film Festival
New Zealand Lesbian and Gay Film Festival: OutTakes
DC Asian Pacific American Film Festival
San Diego Asian Film Festival
Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Connecticut Gay and Lesbian Film Festival
Kansai Queer Film Festival
Buenos Aires Gay, Lesbian, Trans International Film Festival

holding patterns
9 min., 16mm / color, narrative, 2002
Distributed by Iron Rod Motion Pictures

Departures, arrivals, delays. In a world full of unrequited love, two strangers manage to make a connection.

Chicago International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2003
Milan Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2003
Tokyo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2003
Toronto Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2003
Frameline San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, 2003
Cinematexas International Short Film + Video Festival, 2003

100% cotton
5 min. 16mm / color, narrative, 2000
Distributed by Iron Rod Motion Pictures

A male couple questions love and light bulbs over laundry.

Reeling 2000 Chicago Gay and Lesbian Film Festival (winner Best Narrative Short)
Cinematexas 5 Int’l Short Film and Video Festival (Honorable Mention Screenwriting)
Tokyo Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2003
Vancouver Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2003
image+nation – Montreal International Queer Film + Video Festival 2001
Outfest – Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2001
Frameline San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival 2001
Reel Pride – Fresno Gay and Lesbian film Festival, 2001
Austin Gay and Lesbian International Film Festival 2000

Three dollar Cinema
in collaboration with performer and “drag terrorist” Paul Soileau (a.k.a. CHRISTEENE)