FILM
Open Secret (director)
What if everything you thought you knew about yourself was wrong? Who your siblings were? Your parents? Your heritage? Now imagine that everybody knew the truth except you. Open Secret tells the true story of how a farm boy from Kansas discovered who his adoptive family really was, his connection to the Holocaust and why it took 30 years to uncover the truth.
Waiting For Hockney (assistant director)
Official Selection 2008 Tribeca Film Festival
Official Selection 2008 Toronto Hot Docs Festival
To draw the impossible: that is what Maryland artist Billy Pappas set out to do in the early '90s. His self-imposed Sisyphean task was to capture what is normally unseen in portraiture-each pore, each individual strand of hair. He used a 20x magnifying glass while standing in front of his easel, seven hours a day for the next eight and a half years, painstakingly doing just that. He became something of a hermit, all the while convinced that he was pushing art to new heights. After four years, he created a sling system to hold his aching arms in place while drawing. After five years, his family and friends feared for his sanity. His obsessive pursuit of excellence was matched only by his obsessive pursuit of an audience with fabulously successful modern artist David Hockney once his opus was complete.
40th Anniversary Center Stage (director)
A short documentary commemorating the 40th Anniversary of Center Stage in Baltimore.