THE FARM: LIFE INSIDE ANGOLA PRISON intimately captured the day -to-day reality of six men living – and dying – in America’s largest and oldest penal institution. In the process, it captured their innate humanity, and the relationships and community that they built to sustain one another.  By revealing a powerful and universal truth – that to err is human and to forgive, Divine – THE FARM touched an enormous and receptive audience and garnered many of cinema and broadcast’s top awards. When first broadcast on A&E, THE FARM attracted the largest audience for a documentary feature in the network’s history. THE FARM was broadcast in 15 countries, including Japan, Australia, and throughout Europe, and has been the basis of educational programs throughout the nation since.
For A&E and Channel Four International
1998
1 x 90 minutes
Producer and Director

Grand Jury Prize, Sundance, 1998
Academy Award Nominee, 1998
Audience Award, Doubletake Film Festival, 1998
4 Emmy Nominations, 2 Emmy Awards, 2000
Best Documentary, Santa Barbara Film Festival, 2000
Grand Jury Prize, Florida Film Festival, 1998
Golden Gate Award, San Francisco Film Festival, 1998
Thurgood Marshall Award, 1999
Best Non Fiction Film, New York Film Critic’s Circle, 1998
Best Non Fiction Film, National Society of Film Critics, 1999
Best Documentary Film, Los Angeles Film Critic’s Assoc., 1999
Taos Land Grant Award Nominee, Taos Talking Picture Festival, 1998
Satellite Award Nominee, 1998

In Liberia, the summer of 2003 was pure insanity: two armies are in the final battle of a fifteen-year civil war, holding the capital under siege while thousands die from mortar shells launched from afar. As the soldiers, mostly teenagers, fought a bloody urban battle, the nation prayed for American forces show up to put an end to the violence.

For the Discovery Times Channel/BBC
2004
1×102 minutes
Producer and Director

Special Jury Prize, IDFA 2004
Courage Under Fire Award, International Documentary Assoc., 2004
Two Emmy Nominations, 2005
Amnesty International – DOEN Award Winner, Amsterdam International Documentary
Film Festival, 2004
Special Jury Award Winner, Amsterdam International Documentary Film Festival, 2004

The Addicts Rehabilitation Center (Ar.R.C.) in Harlem is one of the oldest rehab facilities in the country. This is the story of three individuals struggling with addiction.

For A&E
1999
1×60 minutes
Producer

Audience Award, Doubletake Film Festival, 2001

October brings rodeo season to Angola State Penitentiary. Over six thousand people gather at the prison to watch the inmate cowboys risk their lives in some of the most dangerous and bizarre rodeo events in the nation.

For The Discovery Channel
1999
1×30 minutes
Producer

Academy Award, Nominee, 2000
IDA Short Documentary Winner, 2000

This short documentary takes the viewer to the heart of the prison rape problem, to meet the victims and the perpetrators, the indifferent officials as well as the isolated reformist administrators.  The film not only explores the inside of prisons where rape is rampant but also the incarceration houses where it has been drastically reduced. 

For Human Rights Watch
2001
1×15 minutes
Executive Producer

A feature-length documentary that tells the story of nine young men and women constructing positive lives as they face the challenges of growing up poor in one of America’s most famous African American communities.

For The Discovery Channel
1994
1×90 minutes
Producer and Director

Golden Eagle Award, 1994
Cable Ace, 1994

This documentary focuses on the censorship controversy in America involving pornography, art, and blasphemy. (Directed by Paul Yule)

Channel Four International
1992
1×75 minutes
Producer

This 60 minute documentary about the resurgence of Jewish culture in Estonia follows one family as they celebrate Passover for the first time in 40 years.

For BBC, in association with Eesti Kultuurfilm (Estonia), SV1 (Sweden), Yleisradio 2 (Finland) and TV Ontario (Canada)
1991
1×60 minutes
Producer

Golden Eagle Award, 1991